God will tell me, and I will tell you. All religious belief flows from that sentiment. Beware of it, for it has been used to manipulate countless people and instills unfounded assumptions of the unknowable in each of us, causing us to presuppose the very nature of our own experiences.
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Dead Wild Roses: It’s *ALL* about Ethics in Game Journalism – ???
It is amazing the amount of turgid self serving drivel that gets posted these days about Gamer Gate. We’ll investigate today, one individual along with the trusty RPOJ one embattled gamer -“Maverick”- and his quest to achieve victory over Anita Sarkeessian and the evil wimmenz gamers in general. This post
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Game of Thrones Medly -Featuring Maluka
A wonderful medley featuring the main title theme and a theme called “The Children” from the fourth season of the show. Filed under: Music Tagged: Game of Thrones, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 10 Hours of Walking in NYC – Street Harassement! Misogyny! Lewis’ Law!
Why hello there gentle readers (and a big thanks to John Zande for bringing this video to my attention). Today were going to look at one of the fundamental differences between the lived experiences of men and women in public. We’re also going to look at some of the horrible
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Do You Know What it Feels Like To Be A Target?
Sometimes while surfing the web you find passages that are so brutally eloquent that the only acceptable action is to replicate them. This from the Notes Against Humanity Blog. “I am targeted for rape and other types of sexual violence because I’m perceived as female. The only effective way
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The CBC Fires Jian Ghomeshi – Good Riddance Mr. Creeper.
***Let me preface this post with a handy disclaimer for clarification – When women say that have been abused – I believe them.*** Okay this story broke over the weekend and the major print media involved so far has been the Toronto Star. In the TS’s words here is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Laci Green On Sam Pepper and Rape
The wheels of justice are moving slow on this one, as is often the case with rape. It is ‘funny’ that our society won’t take the time to look at the reality of the situation when it comes to rape and the legal system. One could say that, tacitly, rape
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Voice for Men has set up a phony White Ribbon website to coopt the international anti-violence campaign of that name [UPDATE: Real WRC responds to AVFM]
The Arbourist: A Voice for Misogyny – AVFM writes yet another page on how not to be a decent human being. Originally posted on we hunted the mammoth: Beware of cheap imitations [UPDATE: The real White Ribbon Campaign has responded; I’ve added excerpts at the bottom.] Apparently, A Voice for
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Kidnapped for Christ – AKA Child Abuse.
What? The religious using coercive tactics to harm children. Unpossible. From Wikipedia: Kidnapped for Christ is a documentary film that details the experiences of several teenagers who were removed from their homes and sent to a behavior modification and ex-gay school in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic. The film was directed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Baba Yetu
Featuring the Cape Town Youth Choir Filed under: Music Tagged: Choral Music, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: #Gamergate – Misogynistic Iteration #4534390 – Overview
Ah, misogyny. Definitely a feature of society not a bug. Amazing the amount of fuss dude-bros can whip up in their crusade against the evil double X conspiracy. I’m still gathering information on the whole debacle, but I may as well share what I’ve read about Gamer Gate so far.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rachel Moran’s Speech – FemiFest 2014
Wow, kick back and let Ms.Moran guide you though the problems of liberal feminism with regards to prostitution and the changes that are necessary to make in society. First of all I’d like to talk a little bit about what Radical Feminism means to me in the context of my
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Obligatory Sexy Halloween Costume Post – No Objectification Here!
I do love the heroic proclamations of anti-feminists and others boldly stating there is no need for feminism, or that we’re now in a post-feminists society, or worse they are an “egalitarian” *eye roll*. Yeah… soo… anyhow lets look at the evolution of costumes for women. See if you can
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Anita Sarkeesian Now In Rolling Stone! – Keep up the Good Work Internet Misogynists!
Ah, all the poor male gamers having their pet misogyny project blow up in their faces. Yep, you dudes are for sure are ruining Anita Sarkessian’s career. Keep the hate-train going maybe you can get her into the NYT again, or Le Monde or Time or… really the sky
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Religious Child Abuse
Our imperial conquests in the Middle East are, of course, busily blowing up in our face. The new normal is a murderous state of higgledy-piggledy brought on by us wiping out the quasi-stable societies that had kept the peace (of sorts). Because nothing says we love peace like bombing the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religous Disservice – The Philosophical Failures of Christian Apologetics – Objective Morality
Well you knew it was hogwash, but Anti-Citizen X unpacks and analyses how silly the idea of Objective Morality is. Unfortunately, their are many layers of stupid that come, hand in hand, with Christian Moral thought, thus necessitating the twenty minute deconstruction of all the silliness. Filed under: Philosophy, Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Morcellator Madness – Imagine A Mechnical Cancer Sprinkler in Your Abdominal Cavity
The FDA and Health Canada are deliberating on the safety of this procedure for women. I was listening to CBC yesterday and heard this piece, and shuddered at the implications. Here’s the blurb from the podcast. “Health Canada warns surgery using a morcellator could spread undetected cancer, Amy Reed &
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sousse Tunisia – Fun in the Sun and ISIS Recruitment Hotbed
Who could ask for anything more. A great beach, a good discotheque and an opportunity for martyrdom for the win! Over a million tourists from around the world visit Sousse, Tunisia every year. And, while the coastal city boasts pristine beaches and world class hotels, recently, hordes of local
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How Wolves Change Rivers
Fascinating how interconnected the system is. Now imagine what happens when we start fracking for shale gas or extracting oil from far sands. :/ Filed under: Science Tagged: Ecosystems, Rivers, Wolves
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How is Ayn Rand Still A Thing?
The funny folks over at Last Week Tonight tackle cover Rand and her amazing set of ‘ideas’ – you remember the ones – the “fuck you, I’ve got mine” high minded ‘philosophy’ that, because it dovetails with capitalism, did not die the premature death it so rightly deserves. Filed
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