My guess? Because they found out that the Feds were wasting $2.7 million in taxpayer dollars studying their drinking habits.
— Of course, that’s just the fiscally-conservative lesbians. Of which there aren’t any. Because one cannot be a conservative and be authentically lesbian. Instead, what they are is a small set of patriarchally-minded imperialist interlopers looking to assume the role of the male in same sex relationships precisely so that they may control and delegitimize the lesbian culture.
They are lesfauxs.
But I digress. CNS News:
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $2.7 million to study why lesbians are at a higher “risk for hazardous drinking.”
The University of Illinois has received grants since 2009 for its project, “Cumulative Stress and Hazardous Drinking in a Community of Adult Lesbians,” which aims to develop “culturally sensitive” strategies to prevent lesbians from being drunks.
“Studies using both probability and nonprobability samples provide ample evidence of lesbians’ vulnerability to hazardous drinking,” the grant’s description reads. “However, very little is known about the factors that increase lesbians’ risk for hazardous drinking.”
“We propose to build on and extend our study of sexual identity and drinking… to model effects of cumulative stress on hazardous drinking among lesbians.”
The researchers theorize that lesbians report higher rates of traumatic events, making them more likely to engage in hazardous drinking, which has been defined by NIH’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism as “more than 7 drinks per week or more than 3 drinks per occasion for women.”
Furthermore, the problem may be worse for “lesbians of color,” the researchers say.
The grant states that there are “chronic stressors unique to sexual minorities, creating cumulative stress that may be compounded in lesbians of color.”
The study is being led by Tonda Hughes, professor at the Department of Health Systems Science at the University of Illinois, an “internationally recognized expert in the area of alcohol use among lesbians,” according to the University.
The researchers are using a sample of 384 adult lesbians—50 percent of whom are a racial or ethnic minority—who were interviewed in 2000 and 2004, and a new panel of 250 lesbians. The grant states that the new panel was oversampled with Black and Latina lesbians, and young lesbians ages 18 to 25.
The specific aims of the study include: “to test models of the relationships between cumulative stress and hazardous drinking in lesbians,” and “the relationships between early and later risk factors and hazardous drinking.”
The study will try to determine whether childhood sexual abuse, “sexual- minority stressors,” and “racial/ethnic-minority stressors” predict hazardous drinking in lesbians, and which lesbians are at the highest risk.
[…]
The University of Illinois is not alone in receiving federal funds to study “sexual minorities” and their propensity to drink. The University of Washington has been awarded $1,154,445 since 2010 for its project “High Risk Drinking in Emerging Adult at-Risk Women,” which seeks to find out why young lesbians and bisexuals face an “elevated” chance for hazardous drinking.
Old Dominion University in 2012 received $446,056 for its study titled “Minority Stress, Alcohol Use, and Intimate Partner Violence Among Lesbians.”
As CNSNews.com previously reported, the NIH also is funding a study to examine why “three-quarters” of lesbians are obese, spending a total of $1.5 million on that research.
As a conservative lesbian trapped in a man’s body, I can only react to this rather outrageous use of grant money thusly: I need a fucking drink or 3. And maybe a double-meat cheese steak and large fries.
It’s the only way to cope with my psychic pain.
Right-wing faux-minist colonisers who dive muff are [insert political incorrectness here]-ist!
it’s probably just cause they don’t have kids, most of them
most women curtail the drinkings after they become moms
Jodie Foster could probably confirm this but I don’t have her email
but I bet she used to sit around with Claire Danes and drink wine until the wee hours until she had her first son
probably really good wine too
and I bet sometimes Mel Gibson would come over and tell funny stories and everyone would laugh and laugh and drink and drink until their teefs were purple!
those were happier times
“And maybe a double-meat cheese steak and large fries.”
Don’t do that. That shit will fall apart and be a mess. You might even have to knife and fork it. Just eat one and if there is still room then get another one.
I bet happy’s hypothesis is pretty dead on. I work with a LOT of young women (and a few lesbians)who are single and they drink like you wouldn’t believe. The married ones- drink a lot less.
Ulla suggests there may be another way.
Here’s a $2,700,000 discount – it’s because they have to deal with women.
I’d drink if my wife let me…
Sequester? I hardly know her.
My alma mater is responsible for this nonsense.
Pictures, or none of this happened.
Beer belly. Now where is my 4.2 million.
Lesbians are just fun people, did they ever think of that?
Or it could be that lesbian are just traumatized women.
speaking of drunk lesbians
Hillary Clinton’s ‘hacked’ Benghazi emails: FULL RELEASE
People of color. I love that. The phrase translates so merrily in sign language, wiggly fingertips at the chin for the word “color”, little p’s popping around for the word “people”, it makes you think of a happy box of crayons.
Once they’re married they don’t need beer goggles anymore?
I think they get all depressed when they realize that none of them have dicks.
Gee, none of the lesbians I ever saw on Cinemax were fat… of course the non-subscriber scrambling may have taken the edge off.
Or maybe lesbians were skinny back in the 80’s in highly edited softcore porn movies.
What do I know, I have a dick and hair on my neck.
I can attest that lesbians (at least the ones that I knew) were not skinny in the 80s. They were still rocking the flannel shirts, carpenters jeans and Doc Martens, but I may be wrong and they were skinny under all that fabric, but I doubt it.
Palaeo, if you comb the hair on your neck just right, it’ll cover the dick.
Or so I’ve heard.
Shit. I’ve been shaving it off all this time. Could have saved myself a whole lot of pants money over the years if I’d only known.
2nd try: Nah the biker will probably take his dick off my neck once he sobers up.
I’d award points but it would be a TWSS situation.
To be serious for a moment, I have a lot of alcoholic, tobacco addicted, morbidly obese, psychologically traumatized lesbian patients, and it is a sad spectacle to watch their downwards spiral of self destruction. But its not a lot different from the heterosexual male or female alcoholic, tobacco addicted, morbidly obese, psychologically traumatized patient, except there are usually fewer tattoos and body piercings. They are all traumatizing to deal with.
And liberals who at first coddled the latter with tales of food addiction and genetic legacies and now torture them with Big Gulp bans are likely, as these studies report out, to begin to stigmatize and legislate lesbians to be limited service at the bar and Stop and Shop. After all, they can’t help themselves, so we have to.
I just figured that since they all played softball and lacrosse in high school, they did what every former high school jock does: drink too much, eat too much, grow a beer belly, and put Springsteen’s Glory Days on infinite repeat.
These researchers would do a lot better if they’d focus on the relevant stereotypes…