Go vote! Or don’t! The FPP system will probably scuttle your intentions anyways. I hear spitting into the wind or pissing up a rope are fine substitutes for exercising the barest of minimums required for participatory democracy. The getting out the vote campaigns are heroic and all that stuff, encouraging
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Dead Wild Roses: 800 Maternal Deaths a Day Is NOT Gender Neutral – Glosswitch
Go read the full post here. “Pregnant woman” is not an identity. It is a social reality. A pregnant woman’s ever-contracting rights – whether she can choose to end this pregnancy, whether she will risk imprisonment for drinking too much, whether she will lose her job, whether she will
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 800 Maternal Deaths a Day Is NOT Gender Neutral – Glosswitch
Go read the full post here. “Pregnant woman” is not an identity. It is a social reality. A pregnant woman’s ever-contracting rights – whether she can choose to end this pregnancy, whether she will risk imprisonment for drinking too much, whether she will lose her job, whether she will
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Not Understanding that Sex Based Oppression is a Thing
Well, it is picture and story time. Here is the picture – And here is the artful rejoinder provided by “blackswallowtailbutterfly” (I think, tracing tumblr sources can be tricky at times). “Was…was that it? Was that the “valid point against sex-based oppression” you wanted witwitch to see? Because, um, fail.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Need for Gun Control – DWR PSA
Quite an effective argument. Filed under: Education Tagged: DWR PSA, gun control
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What the Hell Canadian Electorate?
I thought we had a plan. The plan was that we were going to give the NDP a crack at the levers of power because the other two parties have both repeatedly demonstrated their commitment to Neo-liberalism and the destruction of the rights of Canadians. But look at the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “Why do you want to look like a man?” – Shamelessly Unladylike Speaks Truth about Gender and Being a Woman.
The stuff you can find on tumblr these days. I applaud the trenchant analysis of gender and what being a woman (performing femininity) is like in much of western society. “Why do you want to look like a man?” I wear clothing from the men’s section of the clothing store.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Force Would Be With Me (My Religious Loophole)
Good Sunday Morning to my fair readership here at DWR. Yes, you heard me right, the loophole in my militant atheism has been exposed! If becoming religious came along with the Star Wars movie force like powers – I’d be in like Flynn. Because honestly, who wouldn’t want to do
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Joanna Russ – Excerpt from ‘The Female Man’
It is always nice to get some quality writing about that mysterious realm of Living as Female in our society. Joanna Russ wrote this in 1975 it is chilling how much still applies. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Being Female in Society, DWR Feminist Quote of the Day, Joanna Russ
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Fauré: Automne Op. 18, No.3
A new choral season has begun and this year, for me, it will be starting with Fauré’s Automne. This is a smooth and cool piece. Written in 12/8 this tune has a more than a few rhythmical curve-balls written into the libretto. Good times. French Text Automne au ciel
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Patrick Stewart on The Star Trek: The Next Generation
The good Captain speaks words of wisdom: “I felt that the [TNG] writers and producers could not escape from their own essential rigidity in their attitudes to women. They were continually featured as sexual objects, as softer, weaker, and therefore – it always seemed to me—second-class individuals. And because
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Historical Insights – Bicycles, Novels, Telephones and The Post Office.
A small taste of the historical basis for the shit-deal women have gotten from patriarchal society through a small sampling of history. This sort of bias lies at the very root of how our society is structured. So please dudes stop declaring that the sexes are ‘equal’ and the job
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Comfort Wives and Rape Rooms in West Virginian Coal Industry (1890’s)
In the category of appalling but unsurprising when it comes to the exploitation of labour by capital, we have this “charming” vignette: “Joy Lynn, who now co-owns the Whipple Company Store and has turned it into a museum, told Kline she has had as many 10 women visit the museum
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The State of the Republican Party – Noam Chomsky
As far as concise descriptions of the state of the GOP in the US go, this is fairly accurate and sadly amusing all at the same time. “It is important to bear in mind that the Republicans have long abandoned the pretence of functioning as a normal parliamentary party. Rather,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Supply Side Jesus
The mounting Neo-liberal oligarchy couldn’t exists if American christians actually followed the teachings of Jesus, thus Supply Side Jesus was born to fill the gap. Bill Mahr paints the funny, yet troubling, picture of what much of mainstream religious discourse has become in the United States. Marx said
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Blaze of Glory – Bon Jovi
I really like this song. Here’s the problem though, try singing it in the same key that JBJ does. Here is the lead sheet and let’s observe the melodic patterns that are going on in this song. Those black dots keep going up higher on the staff. Damn you JBJ
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Refuse to Click – Your Preserving Humanity Public Service Announcement of the Day
Against human trafficking? Against slavery? Necessarily, you must also be against pornography. Filed under: Education Tagged: Human Trafficking, Pornography, Slavery
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Dworkin on Pornography
In the United States, [pornography] is an $8-billion trade in sexual exploitation. It is women turned into subhumans, beaver, pussy, body parts, genitals exposed, buttocks, breasts, mouths open and throats penetrated, covered in semen, pissed on, shitted on, hung from light fixtures, tortured, maimed, bleeding, disemboweled, killed. It is some creature
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – The Night and Danger – Andrea Dworkin
“In the United States, with its distinctly racist character, the very fear of the dark is manipulated, often subliminally, into fear of black, of black men in particular, so that the traditional association between rape and black men that is our national heritage is fortified. In this context, the imagery
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Stupid in Action – Dudely mansplinations of what Feminism is…
Only a taste gentle readers of the abundant multiloquence of pants-on-head-stupid over at “Enlightening Science” – with the ever so ironic tagline ‘with knowledge comes power’. Dammit, there went the irony meter – again. Prepare yourselves for a sagacious trip into the dark netherworlds of dudely logic and mansplination (line
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