Time to talk about word of mouth advertising. In the current austerity economy, there's a shrinking amount of potential funds to help lots of needy non profits. This also means that there's more pressure to try and advertise their causes.
While others do great work on various issues, allow me to plug what's done here and why I need your help as well. This blog isn't part of an official non-profit (in the States, a 501(c) for tax purposes). I've tried approaching many media outlets that might be open to run public service ads for this. Nobody will do it.
Why? Because this isn't an "official" non-profit. But I've been doing it for almost six years now. With no ads. It's now reaching (and I'm assuming helping as well?) people in almost all 50 states and lots of countries abroad. Doesn't matter. It has to be "official".
What are they afraid of? That I'm pushing an "agenda"? That being connected to this blog in any way might potentially offend their advertisers/donors (in "public" broadcasting, it's really the same thing)? So just stay away from it?
I'm just trying to give trauma survivors a place to be heard. Why is that so "subversive"?
Which means if you're a real person reading this (which I'm assuming that you are), you like something here. If that's also true, then please help out by giving this URL to someone else who might benefit from it.
Here, there's no budget. No ads. No online store. No gigantic corporate donors that have the power to instantly kill something that they don't like. None of that. It's just a place for trauma survivors to be heard.
Thanks for the help.
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Sunday, July 14, 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Do Everything You Can
Lots to do at home right now. Then, maybe off to the bookstore to stock up on some new magazines. It sucks when you see the online version and they only give you two sentences of their cover story. For the rest (and to get past our pay wall), please pay $29.95. No thanks.
What's one of the hardest things to deal with right now with PTSD symptoms? Realizing that some people will never change from massive denial about being raped. I've done everything I reasonably can, and the parents will be in denial for the rest of their lives about me being raped, and the fact that they committed a serious crime by not doing anything about it.
What does this mean? They have to live with that, not me. It's not my job to psychoanalyze them or save them in any way. I won't be manipulated by a bully's massive denial of the truth. You have to set boundaries and protect yourself because nobody else will do it for you. I'm sad, but I know I'm telling the truth. That's all that matters.
The therapist appt. is in about two weeks. Meanwhile, it's protect your overall well being, find a new job, stop borrowing money and then get off benefits.
Why is it that many will never admit that guys and women get raped? You've heard the excuses:
The percentage is so low it's not worth even talking about.
The "feminist" answer: Men continue to have the power in society. So how could they possibly understand what it's like for women? And no, I don't give a shit what the fuck guys think about that.
These are various "experts" in mental health and just in general people that most would assume would actually know better. Yet, there's some unwritten rule that we just don't talk about that in polite society.
Guy survivors exist. Everyone knows it. Despite that, we'll fight you every step of the way before we stoop that low and publically admit that?
What does it take to be heard? Do I have to post a KONY 2012 style You Tube clip? If I did, would I instantly get 4 million comments on it? I've posted comments in various high profile sites. 98% of the time NOBODY responds. Of course, nobody has to do anything. Despite that, what does that say?
Understandably, many survivors aren't ready to seek help or speak out.
There's no way for the MSM to get ratings from this UNLESS it's yet another "shocking expose" about innocent little kids getting raped by a pedophile priest who we all know will never ever be prosecuted. But it makes for great TV.
I can post a clip about being a rape survivor, and maybe I'll get 50 hits. Meanwhile, Samuel L. Jackson can post a clip, say motherfucker and get 3 million.
Do we live in a 24/7 celeb megahype society? Or, do we live in a society that actually pays attention to its citizens?
What's one of the hardest things to deal with right now with PTSD symptoms? Realizing that some people will never change from massive denial about being raped. I've done everything I reasonably can, and the parents will be in denial for the rest of their lives about me being raped, and the fact that they committed a serious crime by not doing anything about it.
What does this mean? They have to live with that, not me. It's not my job to psychoanalyze them or save them in any way. I won't be manipulated by a bully's massive denial of the truth. You have to set boundaries and protect yourself because nobody else will do it for you. I'm sad, but I know I'm telling the truth. That's all that matters.
The therapist appt. is in about two weeks. Meanwhile, it's protect your overall well being, find a new job, stop borrowing money and then get off benefits.
Why is it that many will never admit that guys and women get raped? You've heard the excuses:
The percentage is so low it's not worth even talking about.
The "feminist" answer: Men continue to have the power in society. So how could they possibly understand what it's like for women? And no, I don't give a shit what the fuck guys think about that.
These are various "experts" in mental health and just in general people that most would assume would actually know better. Yet, there's some unwritten rule that we just don't talk about that in polite society.
Guy survivors exist. Everyone knows it. Despite that, we'll fight you every step of the way before we stoop that low and publically admit that?
What does it take to be heard? Do I have to post a KONY 2012 style You Tube clip? If I did, would I instantly get 4 million comments on it? I've posted comments in various high profile sites. 98% of the time NOBODY responds. Of course, nobody has to do anything. Despite that, what does that say?
Understandably, many survivors aren't ready to seek help or speak out.
There's no way for the MSM to get ratings from this UNLESS it's yet another "shocking expose" about innocent little kids getting raped by a pedophile priest who we all know will never ever be prosecuted. But it makes for great TV.
I can post a clip about being a rape survivor, and maybe I'll get 50 hits. Meanwhile, Samuel L. Jackson can post a clip, say motherfucker and get 3 million.
Do we live in a 24/7 celeb megahype society? Or, do we live in a society that actually pays attention to its citizens?
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