A concise guide to the levels of Science in popular science fiction: Star Trek: This is science-fiction, but we want our science to at least sound plausible. Therefore, most of the time, our scientific explanations will be rooted in scientific fact or at the very least solid, generally accepted theory. Stargate: We’re about half […]
Author: The Arbourist
Dead Wild Roses: Wealth Inequality in Canada – Broadbent Institute
Perceptions are so important when dealing with societies problems. How Canada’s wealth is perceived to be divided and how it actually is obscures the need for greater measures to insure wealth equality in our nation.
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: More on the Free Investor Agreement or the TTP –
Paul Street writes a foreboding analysis of what the TPP is on Counterpunch. “Lawyers and lobbyists for giant multinational corporations have been working up the TPP and promoting it for nearly a decade. The measure would join the United States along with 11 other nations along the Pacific Rim (Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, […]
Dead Wild Roses: Wow, 2016 is just as chockfull of Sexism as 2015.
This just isn’t right, not at any time or circumstance. Yet, these witty ad-wizards have decided that sexism sells and are trying to promote a translation device that allows you, as demonstrated, to creep on non-English speakers. Awesome. Cringe worthy to say the least.Filed under: Feminism, Media Tagged: Advertising, Creepers, Feminism, Oh those normative […]
Dead Wild Roses: What Does Desperation Look Like? ~ guest post by Heather M
Source: What Does Desperation Look Like? ~ guest post by Heather MFiled under: Housekeeping
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – For Those Times When Starting At Square One Isn’t Sufficient :(
One always hopes to find argument in the religious arsenal that is somehow more compelling than: “I believe in X, and that is enough”. The argument portrayed here might be considered ground zero for the silliness the religiously deluded foist upon others in order to win them over to their cause. I didn’t think we’d […]
Dead Wild Roses: Caterday Pic Post – The Horror of the Bathtub!
Filed under: Cute Tagged: Caterday Pic Post, Cute
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The Sound of Silence cover by… Disturbed?
The Simon and Garfunkle green greatest hits album was the very first piece of music I acquired on Compact Disk. I can still remember receiving for Christmas a portable stereo system with the newfangled technology known as a “CD”. Oh, what aural experiences were to be had. 🙂 I’ve heard many covers of the Sound […]
Dead Wild Roses: Don’t use a Japanese vagina stick to “tighten” your vagina, okay?
Source: Don’t use a Japanese vagina stick to “tighten” your vagina, okay?Filed under: Housekeeping
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Unravelling Our Patriarchal Legacy – Allan G. Johnston
Cultural analysis at its finest. “Cultural mythology is often used in this way to distort what goes on between subordinate and dominant groups. It enables dominant groups to avoid seeing how much they depend on others to perform disagreeable labor in return for the low wages that help make privilege possible. Members of the […]
Dead Wild Roses: #BeAngry – The experience is different for Women and Men
Here is a just a snapshot of what it’s like… “What’s on my mind, Facebook? Glad you asked. I am angry. I’m angry because before I moved to the UK, I worked at a bar where the manager proposed a new uniform where the men wore waistcoats and button up shirts, while the women […]
Dead Wild Roses: Things I find Grotesque.
I didn’t realize that I needed a new tag for posts, but indeed I do. Observe.
Yah. Wow. Hard to cram more wrong into a picture.Filed under: Culture Tagged: Things I find grotesque.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Toxic Geopolitics of the Middle East – Richard Falk
Taken from his essay on Counterpunch called Slouching Toward Global Disaster. “Toxic Geopolitics It is impossible to understand and explain such a disastrous failure of military interventionism without considering the effects of two toxic ‘special relationships’ formed by the United States, with Israel and Saudi Arabia. The basic feature of such special relationships is an […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Religion, Abortion, and Bill Nye
Religion is a particularly nasty subset of the patriarchal fabric of our society. Most organized religions provide the justification for the continued male dominance in society. I mean, if the notion of a Grand Ooga-Booga isn’t preposterous enough on its own, the fact that most of His divine commands and intuitions are tethered to a […]
Dead Wild Roses: The Rape/Revenge Genre’s Gender Revelations
“Rape/revenge is replete in tension and bloody cathartic release; there is terrifying violation, and then there is revenge you can feel good about. The films use women’s trauma to justify stereotypically male pleasures of hyperbolic violence. So Thelma and Louise get to pick up guns and shoot people like they’re in a Western, while Furiosa […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Bach – Minuet in G Major BWV Anh 116
Returning to the Bach this year. First up in line is this Minuet in G major, I’m in love with the passage that modulates to E minor soooo much. 🙂
Filed under: Music Tagged: Bach – Minuet in G Major BWV Anh 116, Piano Stuff I can play, The DWR …
Dead Wild Roses: If You Needed More Reasons to Be Against Pornography – Andrea Dworkin
-Andrea Dworkin “The Lie” 1979. Letters from a War Zone 1993.Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Andrea Dworkin, Feminist Quote of the Day, Pornography
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Merry Ukrainian Christmas (Eve) – Let the Perogies Flow!
Two Christmases? Yes you can. Oh yah, find some borscht, cabbage roles, nalisnyky and of course perogies and celebrate Ukrainian Christmas. 🙂 Christmas Eve is tonight. 🙂
Filed under: Culture Tagged: Food, Ukraninian Christmas
Dead Wild Roses: The First RPOJ of 2016 – Full Frontal Stupidity
I cannot identify what it is with dudes and radical feminism. There must be some strange extra-sensory siren call that attracts dudes and dudely opinion to articles, blogs, and heck even just mere information about women speaking unequivocally about their experiences and analysis of society. Of course the attraction is just one part of […]
Dead Wild Roses: On Violence – Alicen Gray
“It’s painful when I hear/see quotes from men, waxing poetic about how violent and inhumane “we” “humans” are “to each other”. When historically and globally, males account for the vast, vast majority of violence. Mostly against women. I used to wonder, how could these men – fancying themselves profound and in-on Truth – possibly call […]