“In 1776, when the letters reprinted below were exchanged, John Adams was in Philadelphia attending the Continental Congress. Within months of receiving his wife’s request that the “new code of laws” give some consideration “to the ladies,” he was hard at work, with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and others drafting one of the world’s […]
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Dead Wild Roses: Making Feminism Acceptable – bell hooks
Often when arguing about feminism on the internet, I hear from my opponents – well there are just sooo many types of feminism – how can my brain handle all this variation. Let’s just simplify the notion a touch. There is the feminism that pleases men and there is the feminism that doesn’t. The feminism […]
Dead Wild Roses: Renting vs. Owning – A Helpful Guide
Filed under: Humour Tagged: Funny, Onion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Opting out of Child/House Work – The Male Avoidance Tango
The neat things you find on tumblr. Ways men opt out of housework and childcare by “helping out” take on weekly or monthly tasks, and think it’s equal to their wives daily tasks (even when wives also have weekly and monthly tasks) take on tasks that require very little time or hard labor, like mowing the […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Arguing With Ghosts
When arguing with religious, one runs into many interesting aspects of the human character. Close to the top of the list is Confirmation Bias – or the idea that we tend to cultivate and seek out views and standpoints that we agree, often at the expense of the truth of the matter. Qualia Soup illustrates […]
Dead Wild Roses: Prostitution and Society – Sinfest
Sad but true.
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Dead Wild Roses: Take That Political Correctness! – The Gift of Fear – Gavin de Becker
Oh ho, a place where people who moan about PC have finally been vindicated… Essential reading for women and men. Catch the .pdf here. *Note for those without adblockers, the actual download link is small, almost covered by a large spam link. Be wary of this subterfuge while getting the .pdf. (Many thanks to JJshaw […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – This is Your Fight Song
Starting the video a bit later to avoid the god-baggery they included in the beginning. 🙂
Filed under: Music Tagged: Piano Guys, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude, This Is Your Fight Song
Dead Wild Roses: #Women are not Objects – The Experience is Different for Women and Men
Insight time folks. Many thanks to Alicen Gray for this. “I often catch men in public checking me out with eyes full of lust, until they see the hair on my legs – at which point, they resort to a theatrical display of disgust. I’ve eavesdropped on groups of college-age guys talking about how […]
Dead Wild Roses: Dress Codes – Rape Culture
We’ll just file this under ‘pages that I need to photocopy and widely distribute’.
Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Rape Culture, Socialization
Dead Wild Roses: The American Anti-Choice Movie Bullshiters Indicted – About Frackn’ Time
Finally. A Houston grand jury investigating undercover footage of Planned Parenthood found no wrongdoing Monday by the abortion provider, and instead indicted anti-abortion activists involved in making the videos that targeted the handling of fetal tissue in clinics and provoked outrage among Republican leaders nationwide. This is what happens when your platform is based […]
Dead Wild Roses: #WomenNotObjects
Reblogged on WordPress.com Source: #WomenNotObjects I’ll start the countdown for the WATM crew to arrive, but till then…Filed under: Housekeeping
Dead Wild Roses: Rebecca Solnit – Who Can’t Take Jokes?
You can watch Rebecca’s insight in action right here folks on this very blog. Watch how, when things don’t go their way. the fire-works begin – personal attacks, insults, hyperbole, all with a heavy dose of condescending mansplination. “But seriously, you know who can’t take a joke? White guys. Not if it implicates […]
Dead Wild Roses: The Energy East Pipeline to Nowhere – Tarsands Puppet Brian Jean has a Sad.
Progress in the laying of plans for Canada’s build-your-own-envirnomental-disaster have hit a snag. The people’s land that we want to endanger are saying no way, and no how. Pretty rude considering that one of our more outspoken Premier’s comments ,“Let those Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.” Oh Ralph, how we miss those straight talkn’, […]
Dead Wild Roses: How not to start a conversation with a feminist
Originally posted on Lavender Blume:
As a feminist who is very active on Twitter, I receive daily unsolicited replies from people I don’t know, many of whom happen to be men. This post may not serve much of a purpose beyond providing catharsis for feminists who go through the same thing but in the optimistic hope that there are men…
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Born A Skeptic
Amanda’s story of leading the life of a skeptic while surrounded by the forces of the great ooga-booga.
Love this quote – “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived.” – Issac AsimovFil…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Jack Barnes Learns About Consequences After Threatening Kerri Sackville And Others
Source: Jack Barnes Learns About Consequences After Threatening Kerri Sackville And OthersFiled under: Housekeeping
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Caterday Pic Post – The Magic of Humans
Filed under: Cute Tagged: Caterday Pic Post, Cute
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude – Ludwig van Beethoven: 6 Ecossaises in E-flat Major
Well, well, well. I spy another tune that I’m learning, and looking at the tempo I use and the one below. Nothing like seeing the work ahead that needs to be done. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Beethoven, Ecossaises in E-flat Major, The DWR Friday Classical Interlude
Dead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of The Day – The Separation of Sex and Politics – Sheila Jeffreys
“By some mysterious process all that pertains to sex in this society has been separated off from politics, even by those who would consider themselves socialist and radicals. In order to make sexual practice a private enclave of individual delight, sexuality has been seen as somehow removed from the effects of sexism, racism, any oppression […]