Paying teenage girls not to get pregnant?

I think this qualifies as the biggest WTF of my life.

I happened to stumble upon this news while watching the trustiest news station ever, CP24. Now here's what's going on:

GREENSBORO -- A buck-a-day -- that's the incentive being offered to young girls to keep them from getting pregnant... Brown said she hopes the program, which pays $1 each day to 12-to-18-year-old girls, will keep them from getting pregnant. In addition to remaining pregnancy-free, the girls must also attend weekly meetings. The program is funded by a four-year grant from the state... Under the program, $7 is deposited into an interest-bearing college fund that the girls can collect once they graduate high school. Some recent graduates earned more than $2,000 and are an inspiration to those still in the program... If a girl drops out or gets pregnant, her money is divided among the other girls still in the program.

This is ridiculous. You're giving someone an incentive for not doing something? What ever happened to hard-earned money? Hell, if I wasn't so pissed off by that I'd be glad to get money for something that wouldn't happen to me. You know why? Because I don't want it to. It's all about choice.

What gets me even more is the fact that a girl's money is divided among the others if she drops out or gets pregnant. There are no words that can be put to what's going on in my mind at the moment.

Let's try to compare it to this: It's like rewarding overweight kids for not having cake for the day. You can't really say that all overweight children will have cake. Some may choose to have cake. Others may hate cake and will avoid it at all costs. But why give money to overweight children for not eating cake? That's not solving the problem, it's just needless rewarding.

All I'm saying is this: That's definitely not the way to solve the problem.

I'm Still Alive!

Hey! I'm over here!
I haven't done a post since last month. I know, tsk tsk to me. But I haven't had any real reason to post, I think. I am undoubtedly a bad blogger.

Another thing. I think I'm changing the purpose of my blog. I thought in the beginning that maybe I could do commentary on current events, but it turns out that I'm absolutely HORRIBLE at that. :) Kudos to me, man.

So today I'm not at school. Why? Because of horrible, horrible uterine cramps. Which is quite ironic considering that my wonderful gym teacher, Mrs. Newton, expressed to us yesterday (the first day of 2nd semester) that periods will not excuse anyone from class. And in the event that they do, it means lost marks and there is NO way we'll get them back. The issue is that my mother and I both think I may have menorrhagia which is a fancy word for an abnormally heavy and prolonged menstrual period at regular intervals. This is just a google-inspired diagnosis, but there's a possibility there. From what I've read on the wikipedia page, it's pretty serious. We've gotten around to treating it with Advil (my favourite NSAID in the world) and it's seemed to work the last two times, cutting down my periods from lasting somewhere around three weeks to only one. Yay! although i'm pretty sure the fabled 4-6 tablespoons that is deemed normal has already left my body in the span of a day and a quarter.

And that's the story. I doubt I'll be able to tell that to Mrs. Newton especially since I've only been in her class once. I already have a hard time talking to teachers that I know at times. And then this happens. Hopefully my mom will explain my situation for me.

Today I think I'll do some writing. And maybe play some Wii Fit.


Cheers.

I'ma SHOOT you people.

Today's post, boys and girls, is about pro-anorexia and pro-bulimia videos, also known as pro-ana and pro-mia.

This is absolutely disgusting. Anorexia is a serious problem (well, duh, you people know that) and there are people out there who actually want to look like they'd break with the slightest touch. I found out about these horrible pro-starvation videos on Yahoo! Answers. After watching about 10 of the videos i saw a few that actually had girls that looked about 12 years old in them.

12 year olds!

What the hell? I mean I understand that people that actually have anorexia, not by choice, are suffering and have a completely different view than the general public about everything HOWEVER, there's a whole new generation of people who are insulting people who are trying to get better by showing this off as a trend.

Opinions?

Look before you leap.

So today I got in a serious three-hour Guitar Hero III session and my mind was trying to not explode in the midst of all the fast-paced high-octane mini-mines that were the screen frets. Then again, I was trying Hard for the first time.

My brother can be a bit of a touchy kid and possibly accidentally touched my uncle's crotch area.

My uncle also happens to be quite a complainer, so he told my grandmother to get him to stop.

My grandmother happens to be quite the yeller, so she consequentially and aggressively said "What is WRONG with you? Do you think he is a faggot?"

Ugh.
Ugh, ugh, ugh. Nothing in my life (in terms of put downs and other -ist terms) has ever bothered as much as that did. And I don't know why. I know that my grandma has a tendency to be a bit...how should I put it...discriminatory. And it comes off as offensive, but honestly she doesn't know better. But this just struck something that I never knew could be hit.

This reminds me of something else. My uncle, the complainer. He's probably the most homophobic and stereotypical of all in the family and it makes me mad. Of all the things in the world he is trying to do, it's teaching my brother to be "manly".

I want my uncle out of my house.