All slides are from the presentation by Dr. Cathy Higgins. Given that power works best from the shadows (insert creepy *mou-ah-ah-ah, here), it is always beneficial to bring the artifice of power into plain sight so can be properly evaluated and critiqued. If one doesn’t know what Patriarchy is, then how can it ever be […]
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Dead Wild Roses: I Love The Smell of Equality in the Morning – Dress Codes for Women
Ahh, you can hear the faint hum of the patriarchal machinery gently whirr in the background as it gently churns out non-provocative titles such as this: “Sexy outfits for female staff may be discriminatory.” The unabashed use of the qualifier quickly raised this commentators eyebrow and raised the feminist lobes to a strong yellow alert. […]
Dead Wild Roses: Talking About Gender – Debbie Cameron – Part 1
There certainly seems to be a great deal of confusion about basic terminology. Let’s see if we can un-muddy the waters a bit. This is taken from Trouble and Strife. “Debbie Cameron: The purpose of today’s discussion is to try to cut through some of the theoretical and political confusion which now surrounds the […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Regressive Left and Islam
A good talk on some of the problems facing people who wish to debate sensitive topics in society. “No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity. And what I mean by that is that no idea in Islam, like any other religion and any other philosophy and political thought and creed, […]
Dead Wild Roses: Performance Anxiety – Now Imagine Being Evaluated 24/7.
From Science Daily: “Now neuroscientists at the University of Sussex’s Sackler Centre and Brighton and Sussex Medical School have identified the brain network system that causes us to stumble and stall just when we least want to. Dr Michiko Yoshie and her colleagues Professor Hugo Critchley, Dr Neil Harrison, and Dr Yoko Nagai were able […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Army of Me – Björk
The “Sucker Punch Remix” of Björk‘s “Army of Me” is based upon a trip hop production and “repeatedly pummels via the psychedelic vocal delivery and careening, crushing guitars”. Did you need to darkly-dangerously rock out? This, gentle readers, is your tune. Filed under: Music Tagged: Army of Me, Björk, The DWR Friday Musical […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Cordelia Fine
Big fan of Ms.Fine. 🙂 “My risk of an unwanted pregnancy and being denied an abortion is not a random fact about me. It’s a fundamental part of what it means to be born female, shoved into the class “woman” and hence devalued as an autonomous human being. It will remain so even when […]
Dead Wild Roses: Things to Ruin Your Day – Forced Sterilization of the Roma
When the government really isn’t on your side… Excerpts taken from here. “Between 1971 and 1991 in Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic and Slovakia, the “reduction of the Roma population” through surgical sterilization, performed without the knowledge of the women themselves, was a widespread governmental practice. The sterilization would be performed on Romani women without their […]
Dead Wild Roses: Meet the Texas Abortion Provider Who Refuses to Lie Back and Take It
Originally posted on ValerieTarico.com:
Amy Hagstrom Miller has defended her group of Texas clinics, Whole Woman’s Health, all the way to the Supreme Court despite tremendous personal cost. Here’s why. Amy Hagstrom Miller will face the Supreme Court tomorrow in defense of her group of abortion clinics, Whole Woman’s Health. Hagstrom Miller is a…
Dead Wild Roses: Gender Bias in Coding
My chorus of MRA hacks is always on about how great things are for women and often how the wimmenz have it better than dudes. Right. So here again, is an example of what existing while female is like. “A group of computer scientists, when studying the acceptance of contributions on the software […]
Dead Wild Roses: Beauty and Misogyny: Shelia Jeffreys on Make Up
Hmm. Different expectations for women and men? How odd.
Funny how women are expected to differentiate themselves from the the societal norm (men) to get recognition.Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism 101, Make Up, Sheila Jeffreys
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women
“Sarah Moore Grimké (1792 – 1873) was born in South Carolina, to a slave holding family. As an adult she came to Pennsylvania to live. Later, describing the agonies of conscience she suffered on the account of slavery, Sarah Grimké referred to the South as a “wilderness” in which they saw nothing “but desolation […]
Dead Wild Roses: Cheryl Tiegs is ok with Sports Illustrated glamorizing women who are too thin
Originally posted on Dr. Jen Gunter:
Ashley Graham, a gorgeous woman and plus-sized model, is on one of the three Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Edition covers. Sports Illustrated ? This is what Cheryl Tiegs, a former swimsuit model herself, had to say: “I don’t like that we’re talking about full-figured women, because it’s glamorizing them, because…
Dead Wild Roses: Anthropological Norms Revisited – The Hunter Gatherer
Some food for thought regarding some of the assumptions of Social Darwinism.
–Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour (1986)Filed under: Feminism, History Tagged: Anthropolgy, Femin…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Things I Need to Try Before I Die – Spaghettieis
Looks like you may have to pack extra insulin, but it looks like it is worth it. 🙂 Spaghettieis is a German ice cream made to look like a plate of spaghetti. In the dish, vanilla ice cream is extruded through a modified Spätzle press or potato ricer, giving it the appearance of spaghetti. It […]
Dead Wild Roses: Some Great Feminist Links!
Some are mine. *****
Source: Some Great Feminist Links!Filed under: Housekeeping
Dead Wild Roses: How to dress your son as a female character in Frozen
Glosswitch on letting kids be kids.
Source: How to dress your son as a female character in FrozenFiled under: Feminism
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The World of Batshit Part #6.
Not so much poking in the eye the religious types, but more their methodology when it come to proving how correct their fatuous bull-cookery is. The target of this video is a self avowed flat-earther who believes that spherical objects don’t exist because Tycho Brahae was murdered by mercury poisoning… because he got too close […]
Dead Wild Roses: The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture
Originally posted on Dating Tips for the Feminist Man:
The opposite of masculine rape culture is masculine nurturance culture: men* increasing their capacity to nurture, and becoming whole. The Ghomeshi trial is back in the news, and it brings violent sexual assault back into people’s minds and daily conversations. Of course violence is wrong, even when the court system…
Dead Wild Roses: Women on Wall Street – Maureen Shelly
Nope. No extra barriers, playing field even, no systemic problems to see here… ‘Of course she would have to avoid stereotypical female behavior, and so she could never cry. She would work long hours and hide her pregnancies and her preschooler’s art. One of my co-workers even hid being married. When confronted, she practically […]