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
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Dead 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
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Because People Still Don’t Get Racism – Hey, White People!
Great video, bad comments section automatically confirming the necessity of said video. Another grand video – Filed under: Racism Tagged: Racism, White People
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Rapist Checklist – Courtesy of the Biting Beaver Archives
A post that deserves to be amplified. Thank you BB for your words and your insight. “However, you all would be amazed if you saw the sheer number of men who get ragingly pissed off by this post. For that reason alone I thought that it was worth reposting
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Planting the Toxic Seed
Religion doesn’t just happen in the 21st century in the West. Religion must be instilled into children, magic and fable must be taught to be revered and most darkly, the fear of eternal punishment must be enshrined in young minds. Hell for children is a very real fear –
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Difficulty of Asserting Boundaries
The lived experiences of women are fundamentally different than men. Go to This Ain’t Livin’ blog for the full post. “This is the society we live in: it’s difficult for women and people socialised as women to assert their boundaries because they were trained to have no boundaries, and consequently,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – CBC Musics The 80’s Spoken Word Super Cut.
I’m not sure I should be happy or sad that I don’t recognize most of the clips. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: The 80’s, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Best Revenge is Living a Good Life – i believe you, it’s not your fault.
Add i believe you, it’s not your fault to your bookmarks, your blog, your whatever. It is too important not to. The Best Revenge is Living a Good Life. (TW Rape, Child Abuse) I am the only female child in my family of four children and I am the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Whelp – Conversion time for me…
Religion plies its trade in fear. Thank you khaki dude for providing such a clear example. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Fear, Humour, Psychology, Religion, Satan
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Trying to Be the Debby Downer – Social Contexts of Gamer Rape Culture
This is a post based on a personal experience. The general topic of the sexist nature of video game culture can be found here. As of late, I’ve been on a bit of League of Legends binge; a fact the Intransignet One can well attest. The problem with League
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Casts Jundiced Eye toward Kia’s Dancing Hamsters
Let it be said up front that this cranky second waver bears no animus with regards to hamsters, electric vehicles, or dancing. Yet, once these elements are mixed into the toxic soup of everyone’s favourite capitalistic patriarchal construct – better known as ‘our society’ – hilarity is bound to ensue.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Aron Ra on the First Foundational Falsehood of Creationism
Aron Ra begins his series with a nice set up about how the extreme religious tend to frame evolution as being exclusively atheistic. I suppose anything that can be used to flog/frighten people to the cause is fair game for the radically religious. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Aron Ra,
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