“Under predatory capitalism, the average American’s life has no inherent worth to his society, his neighbours, his peers, his colleagues — he is just an instrument, a tool, a device for earning profit. So he is constantly told that he is nothing, nobody, no one, unless he wears, says, buys, owns, has the right things — but acquiring those takes being a predator, cunning, ruthless, heartless, and merciless. And yet there is a terrible dilemma here. Even if he understands himself in the end, he will see something psychologically devastating — he is just a cog in the machine of his own ruin, because he can either be someone, or no one, but he cannot be his better self.”
Bisexuals got less than 1% of LGBTQ grant dollars despite making up about half of the LGBT+ community. Also both gay men and lesbians had an increase in funding
(good thing!) while funding for bisexuals decreased (bad thing!). Which is appalling considering they were already getting less than 1% to begin with.
Bi people tend to fare worse than gay people in issues such as poverty, coming out, health, mental illness, violence, abuse, suicide etc. These statistics are constantly used to get more funding for LGBT+ organizations but then barely any of it goes towards bisexuals. Which is y’know stealing resources.
okay you know what something about this fucking bothered me as an angry bisexual so i decided to read it and what i found in the report was strikingly fucking different from what you’re even saying.
for starters the first link is broken so here is a fixed link if anyone wants to correct me (im not saying it was intentional probably a mistake bc this site is broken). i went down to the grants and it CLEARLY STATES on page 10 for grants: “The vast majority of LGBTQ grants in 2014 targeted the LGBTQ community broadly. The data below looks at grants that
specifically supported one segment of the LGBTQ community”. which means the VAST MAJORITY of ALL MONEY lgbt people can access is available to ALL LGBT members. gay men and lesbians are not ‘stealing money or resources’, the table that comes after this is what SPECIFIC grants are for.
now it does look as though gay men have more–bi people are the light blue/aqua color. but why is that? well
“Funding for gay men nearly doubled in 2014. This jump is almost entirely attributable to the spike in HIV/AIDS funding.
Nearly 90 percent of the funding specifically awarded to gay men was for HIV/AIDS.” almost all of the funding gay men can get is for HIV/AIDS. 90% of all the money they can and do receive isn’t ‘just to support them because they are gay’ its so they can get treatment for a life threatening illness you heartless assholes. in fact, if you take away specifically HIV/AIDS funding gay men get around only one percent (10 percent of 11 percent is 1.1 percent, are you seriously about to start fighting over fractions of percentages too though?)
also nice of you to ignore how much funding trans people get compared to lesbian women and bisexuals–or are gay men the only evil ‘resource hoarding’ ones here??? or maybe you are forced to admit that these specific grants are sometimes needed to support specific members of the community more than others?
you’re all vile what the hell is wrong with you. mocking gay men for getting and increase of fucking for HIV/AIDS??? REALLY???? thats what you’ve submitted yourself to??? lying about funding, manipulating charts, and mocking people for medical treatment??? good fucking lord
everyone thinks eugenics against disabled people is like exclusive to injecting something in someone to kill them and not allowing for a situation in which disabled people cannot survive. like conservative capitalists have straight up said disabled people do not necessarily need support and can die if they can’t survive on their own, and that said support wastes resources. LOL.
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