I kinda hate Silent Night as our choir has sung this tune to death over the last 5 or 6 years. However, you don’t see shit as fine as this everyday. Domingo is the gold standard for Tenors and all of us wee fledgling Tenors wish we could be a quarter as good as he […]
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Dead Wild Roses: Canadian Electoral Reform – Screwing the Conservatives
Canadians are watching closely to see if their new government is going to stick to the promises made during the recent election campaign. One of the most important promises was to reform the electoral system and get rid of our current First Past the Post system. I was browsing about and found an interesting article […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – Gerda Lerner
When asked about the wage gap and why we don’t see women equally represented in society how often is one bombarded with comments like: “Women prefer lower paying jobs”, or even better, ‘there is no such thing as the wage gap”. Steaming monkey muffins to that bollocks is my usual reply. Before we go on, […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Common Physics Misconceptions.
Ah, Minute Physics, one of my favorite ytube channels. Explain away 🙂 Filed under: Science Tagged: Minute Physics, Travel
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Media Reinforces Patriarchal Norms
Completely shocking I know… Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Helpful Infographics, Media, Patriarchy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Religious Freedom
We have not featured Betty Bowers for awhile, thus, enter her definitely non-satirical take on the topic of religious freedom. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Betty Bowers, Religious Freedom, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Some Historical Misconceptions Dispatched
History is awesome! So rich, so vibrant…and mostly so amazingly garbled and riddled with inaccuracies. Here today is a modest start in correcting the damage. 🙂 Filed under: History Tagged: Historical Misconceptions, History
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude: The stuff you grow up with – Angel of the Morning – Juice Newton
**Fascinating stuff, I heard this tune, while doing the dishes, on CBC’s Vinyl tap(!). I usually cast a jaundiced eye toward shows centred around pop music and what not, but Saturday evenings, the choices available of good non-commerical radio is notoriously thin. **So, dishes with the ‘Tap’ it was. **And a quick trip through […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Pervasive Sexism in Hollywood, Shocking.
Oh hey, if you have not zipped over and read the whole article on the New York Times, you should. The attitudes expressed and the hurdles women face are replicated in almost every occupation and fascinatingly enough the dudes in charge seem pretty “OK” with the situation. “There had long been a strange sort of […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Movies that Hollywood Won’t Touch – Neerja Bhanot -The Heroine of the Hijack
This is a heroic tale of a brave woman who sacrificed her saving children from terrorists. Can you ever imagine a Hollywood film portraying this kick ass female hero’s life? … Yah, me neither. It’s too hard for the hollywood dude establishment to tart up the heroine and tell a serious story at the same […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Thanks Onion – Socialism vs Capitalism
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gift Bags
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We have a wide variety of protesters yelling at patients and companions entering the clinic. Every morning the clinic is open they line up to pray, yell, preach, or shove pamphlets into cars and the hands of people who just want to get to their appointment. If you’ve read…
Dead Wild Roses: Feminist Rage Sanitized for Public Consumption – The Polytéchnique Massacre, December 6th, 1989.
I’m probably already reprinting to much, but frack it. This shit is too important not to repeat. Go to the Ottawa Citizen’s webpage and read the entire article by Shelly Page. “I was 24, sent by the Toronto Star to write about the slaughter of female engineering students, all around my age; fourteen […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Christian Terrorism – Featuring Mr. Deity
When will we have justice? When we apply the same standards to ourselves that we apply to our enemies. Have you heard any of the moderate christian representatives expression contrition for acts of their radical wing? The fact that we expect moderate islamic representatives to apologize is the only lesson you’ll need to […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Reproductive Rights – The Whole Ball Game – Glosswitch
One of the main axis of female oppression is reproduction. Glosswitch expounds on this theme, I recommend viewing the entire post here. “The trouble with reproductive choice isn’t that most of us are in mourning over embryos gone to waste. It’s that, if you really believe in it, you have to give people with uteruses the […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR PSA – Tea Consent
Greetings and good day gentle readers. Today’s PSA is a helpful video on consent that should help make clear what it is and how it works with regards to initiating sexy times with people.
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Dead Wild Roses: Drain the Swamp – The Colorado Planned Parenthood Tragedy
The cesspool that is toxic masculinity, the sea we all swim in, had a newsworthy (aka an effect on people other than women) peak at the Planned Parenthood in Colorado. “Three people were killed and nine others injured after gunfire ripped through a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo., during an hours-long standoff […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Shudankodo – Synchronized Walking
Admittedly, it looks fantastic, but is this something that is on many people’s bucket lists? Dad: “Ya know son, before I die, I need to find a herd of people and learn to walk with them in precise motions…” Son: “Why not learn to dance instead?” Dad: “Good point.” Well how here it […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Watch out! – Christian Black Friday Follies
Imagine if you would a salt shaker on your dinner table. Now imagine another shaker on your table, only filled with bullshit. Most of organized religion is this shaker filled with shit that people add (voluntary or not) to the various dishes and activities in their lives. Our happy thought experiment plays on the […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – A Swinging Christmas – Arr. Jay Althouse
This earworm will not go away. I cannot escape because I have to practice the damn piece for our upcoming choir performances. So what’s better than an earworm? Sharing one, of course. 🙂 This is the best version I can find on youtube, so until we bust out our version, this will have to do. […]
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