The Arbourist: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – A Reblog from Everysaturdaymorning – Religion is not a Disability, it is Choice. Great reading 🙂 Originally posted on Everysaturdaymorning's Blog: My best friend and I used to say that jokingly in high school when we were being smart-alecks about not wanting
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Dead Wild Roses: Insensitivity To Sample Size – Stats on a Saturday?
Statistics is an area that I’m interested in. I’m not keenly interested enough to take a stats course, but I do like learning about some of the basic concepts. Thanks Youtube.. :> Filed under: Education Tagged: Sample Size, Statistics
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Bach, Violin Concerto in G Minor BWV 1056r
Filed under: Music Tagged: Bach, Reconstructed Concertos
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why It’s So Hard For Men To See Misogyny
Amanda Hess on Misogyny Spotting – “These are forms of male aggression that only women see. But even when men are afforded a front seat to harassment, they don’t always have the correct vantage point for recognizing the subtlety of its operation. Four years before the murders, I was
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Canada’s Liberal Party Gets One Thing Right – They Are Unabashedly Pro-Choice
Conservative media has attempted to portray the notion of women as autonomous human beings as “radical”. The recently decimated Liberal Party is stirring back to life with the election of a new Leader. Justin Trudeau has decreed that his MP’s will vote pro-choice, no exceptions. The woolly anti-choicers that still
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Splayed Feet: The New Scourge(?) brought on by Birkenstocks
“The Problem with Birkenstocks” by Annie Kreighbaum illustrates so perfectly the fantastical through-the-looking-glass distortions of reality that we collectively we know as “Fashion“. Unpacking this article was kind of fun in the “Wow..really??” sort of way. What wasn’t so fun is that amount of shaming that is going on
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Today in Our Culture of Misogyny – Sam “Social Experiment” Pepper
Fearless amateur sociologist Sam Pepper conducts ground breaking social experiments such as this one. Yah… he really did that and continues to do creepy things to women objectifying and violating their personal boundaries because in our society in 2014 – the boundaries of women don’t matter. This individual is showing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Christian Vs Muslin – Darkmatter2525
DM2525 hits on some of the similarities between radical christian and radical islamic goals and thinking. I think that a believer from either side would reflexively call this video a gross mischaracterization of their faith and the positions that they hold. Perhaps, but from an atheistic point of view it
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Are Video Games Sexist?
Why yes, yes they are. Next question. But hey, here’s a video with a catchy tune replying to the anti-feminist Christina Hoff Sommers. Filed under: Gaming Tagged: Gaming, Sexism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Distant Cousins?
Rich Terfry explores some similar sounding tunes in this clip. Filed under: Music Tagged: CBC Music, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Shadow of Mordor – Krimp the Orc’s Very Bad Day
I’ve been keeping tabs on this game since it was announced. An open world, stealthy, combaty, psy-opsy medieval romp through some of the back story of Tolkien’s fantasy world. This of course isn’t actual game footage, but a rather a clever marketing ploy to hype up the release of the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – My Least Favorite Movie Trope
Many thanks to Elizabeth Bear for today’s comment on our culture. “My Least Favorite Trope (and this post will include spoilers for The Lego Movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Matrix, Western Civilization, and—cod help me—Bulletproof Monk*.) is the thing where there’s an awesome, smart, wonderful, powerful female character who by all rights
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sex Positive Feminism is Doing The Patriarchy’s Work for it.
From an article by Glosswitch published on the New Statesman. “The underlying thought behind sex-positive feminism is conservative and unimaginative, fearing a sexless void should patriarchy ever vacate the space it currently fills. And yet the truth is, those who question objectification aren’t afraid of fucking. They are not the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Minute Physics – Why are Stars Star Shaped?
Watch out, interesting learning ahead. Filed under: Science Tagged: Minute Physics, Stars
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Disproving Geo Centrism – Part 10?
Who knew we would need 10 segments to properly dismember Geocentric theory. I’m still sorta shocked that people would believe in Geocentrism in 2014. Filed under: Religion, Science Tagged: Confirmation bias, Geocentrism, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: History of Racism – Heroine Dorothy Counts (1957)
Fifty seven years ago seems like a long time, but in term of changing cultural norms it was mere minutes, we still have such a long way to go. Three cheers for Ms.Counts and her steely determination, courage and perseverance in the face of such ugly human behaviour. In 1956,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Bach, Air “On the G-string”
The original orchestral suite was generally believed to have been written by Bach for his patron Prince Leopold of Anhalt some time between the years 1717 and 1723. However, the oldest surviving score is later, dating from Bach’s time in Leipzig. Current thinking is that the suite may well have
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Canadian New Democratic Party – A $15 Minimum Wage – Why not?
The NDP seeing the traction that the fifteen dollar minimum wage is getting in the US has made it part of their platform. “NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says he will put the idea of a $15 an hour minimum wage to a vote in Parliament when it resumes next week.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: John Pilger Excerpt – Breaking the Last Taboo
Gaza and the Threat of World War “There is a taboo,” said the visionary Edward Said, “on telling the truth about Palestine and the great destructive force behind Israel. Only when this truth is out can any of us be free.” For many people, the truth is out now. At
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Friendzone Make-up Tutorial
Full marks for making fun of phony social constructs. 🙂 Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Friend Zone, Make up Tutorial
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