Do not cross paths with this seething pile of birb-rage, if you know what is good for you. 🙂
Filed under: Humour Tagged: Anger-birb, Humour
Author: The Arbourist
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Baroque Interlude – Cello Suite No.1 J.S. Bach
Well, with a neat visualization of how the bowing on this particular piece works a master work becomes even more interesting. 🙂
Filed under: Music Tagged: 1st Movement, Bach, Cello Suite No. 1, The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude
Dead Wild Roses: Women’s Agency – Let’s Look in the Right Places – Janice G. Raymond
The choice of which battles to fight reflects on how one views society and how it is constructed. Here is what going to the root of problem and starting one’s analysis looks like. “Radical feminists have never denied the agency of women under conditions of oppression. But radical feminists have located women’s agency, women’s making […]
Dead Wild Roses: Historical Perspective on the Advancement of Women – Gerda Lerner
Seventy two years (+) of struggle just to get right to vote, and an uphill battle *all* of the way. Now who exactly was creating such resistance to positive social change? Hmm… now that is quite the puzzle now isn’t it. Those in power will never willingly concede their power. Not ever. What it takes […]
Dead Wild Roses: Defining and Redefining Racism – Carlos Hoyt Jr.
Racism isn’t that easy to define. There are two competing meanings and the new, more specific one, is quite controversial once examined. The Pedagogy of the Meaning of Racism: Reconciling a Discordant Discourse Carlos Hoyt Jr. “We do our students (white and not white) a disservice by indoctrinating them into a belief system that […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Bible
Pithy definitions for us today folks. 🙂
Sooooooo… I need someone to tell me how morality springs from said book again, I seem to have forgotten how that works, given the source material.Filed under: Religion Tagged: Bible, The DWR Sunday Religi…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Look into the Double Bind of Patriarchy, and the Way Out
Women under patriarchy often are told that the choices they make will differentiate themselves from those “other” women. That the choices they make as an individual will empower them to overcome the obstacles they face. Granted, in some individual cases this can happen, but for the vast majority of women the choices they make individually […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Malagueña Salerosa
Malagueña Salerosa — also known as La Malagueña — is a well-known Son Huasteco or Huapango song from Mexico, which has been covered more than 200 times[1] by recording artists. The song is that of a man telling a woman (from Málaga, Spain) how beautiful she is, and how he would love to be her […]
Dead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – Andrea Dworkin on Pornography
“People say, “Oh, well, pornography—that’s for masturbation, nobody can get hurt that way.” But orgasm is a very serious reward, isn’t it? Think of Pavlov’s little dogs, right? They don’t just think about salivating; they salivate. They do it because they learned it. Period. Now think about pornography. The dehumanization is a basic part of […]
Dead Wild Roses: David Cromwell – On Academic Collaboration with the Private Sector
David Cromwell excels at identifying key points of friction between public and private interests. In this excerpt he examines how higher learning is being bent to fulfil its corporately mandated responsibilities to society. “This [Academia] is a privileged sector where critical thought and enquiry into human society, the natural world and the cosmos ought to […]
Dead Wild Roses: Rebecca Reilly-Cooper: What I believe about Sex and Gender (Part 2)
Rebecca Reilly-Cooper continues her examination of sex and gender in part 2. (Did you miss part 1?) Gender 10. The oppression linked to sex begins at birth, operating through the social imposition of gender. Gender is the label that feminists use to describe the value system that prescribes and proscribes forms of behaviour and appearance for […]
Dead Wild Roses: Do You Have What It Takes to Be A Classical Musician?
The CBC always comes through for me providing this helpful video on things that one just simply needs to know while on the rigorous path to classical musicianship. The viola/trombone burn is strong with this one. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Classical Music, Funny, How to be a…
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
I’m always slightly amused when my atheism gets me categorized as a follower of satan. I mean, it is like the easter Bunny crew getting all wound up and calling out the tooth fairy for just being a children’s story. So we wind up with this: Yeah. I have to admit, I’m flagging when it […]
Dead Wild Roses: Caterday – Leaf Murder
Filed under: Cute Tagged: caterday, Cute, Leaf Murder
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Scarlatti Sonata in D Minor K141
This D minor effort is one of Scarlatti’s finest Sonatas and also one of his most unusual: it is really a toccata whose focus on repeated notes is said to be an attempt to imitate the sonorities of a mandolin. In addition, it makes considerable demands on the soloist with hand-crossings and other keyboard acrobatics […]
Dead Wild Roses: Second Wave Smackdown – On Prostitution
It takes dedicated effort to remove these sorts of fiery speeches from the history of women. Oratory like this somehow doesn’t make it into the classrooms, or history lectures. So the lessons need to be discovered, theorized, and fought for in each generation of women making progress glacially slow. Yet we have helpful mnemonics for […]
Dead Wild Roses: Measles Explained – And Also, Get Vaccinated.
Let’s work together on this one folks. We should be done this by now.
Filed under: Medicine Tagged: Measles, Medicine, Vaccinations
Dead Wild Roses: The Madness of the Global Economy – David Cromwell
    Did you want to get the gist of Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s master work ‘Manufacturing Consent’ but not have to read that long, dryly informative tomb? Have I got the book for you. ‘Why are we the Good Guys?’ by David Cromwell runs on essentially the same thesis but is many more times […]
Dead Wild Roses: Syrian Human Traffiking
   Wouldn’t it be nice if people, for once, didn’t decide to make money of the misery of others? (I know, I know. Capitalism would collapse the End Times would start, et cetera). One news story that caught my eye was the tomfoolery going on with some Immigration Consultants and their business of getting Syrian […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Religious Morality…
As I have a headache instead of a pithy comment, we get a pithy picture instead. And really, with Star Wars and Game of Thrones stepping up, how could the christian magic book lose? Filed under: Religion Tagged: GoT & Starwars, Pithy Memes, Religion, The DWR Sunday Disservice