Oh Canada! Producer of so much oil and making strides to export it to other countries just had its first jump in gasoline prices. One question to contemplate is that rather than exporting oil to other countries wouldn’t it be nice to stabilize the domestic market supply and give Canadian
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Dead Wild Roses: RPOJ – Neil Macdonald Fails at Understanding what Rape Culture is.
Today’s Red Pen of Justice edition is brought to you by the clueless parvanimity of Neil Macdonald. Mr. Macdonald has many important opinions on Rape Culture and, shockingly enough, they are completely out-to-fucking-lunch-brain-gone-fishing, wrong. “For people my age, the freedom to get drunk or high and then have sex with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Religious Disservice – Religous Calling
Pretty much all the evidence you need to verify that christianity is bullshit. Never a happy ending (for the religious) when you examine and compare religious claims to reality. Not much more to say here, have a great Sunday everyone. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Betty Bowers, Religious Calling, The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: More On Patriarchy – Creating the Victim Class
Nice of Deep Green Resistance to illustrate what Patriarchy is for women. “Female socialization in patriarchy is a process of psychologically constraining and breaking girls—otherwise known as “grooming”—to create a class of compliant victims. Femininity is a set of behaviors that are, in essence, ritualized submission. We see nothing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: More On Patriarchy – Creating the Victim Class
Nice of Deep Green Resistance to illustrate what Patriarchy is for women. “Female socialization in patriarchy is a process of psychologically constraining and breaking girls—otherwise known as “grooming”—to create a class of compliant victims. Femininity is a set of behaviors that are, in essence, ritualized submission. We see nothing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The Surprising Musical Origins of Star Trek
Oh radio 2, how I wish you’d reformat again with more classical music. A huge hattip to the CBC for producing this wonderful journey through song. Also, who knew Tom Allen was a purveyor the dark art of lower brass musicianship? 🙂 Oh hey our conservative government is trying
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The Surprising Musical Origins of Star Trek
Oh radio 2, how I wish you’d reformat again with more classical music. A huge hattip to the CBC for producing this wonderful journey through song. Also, who knew Tom Allen was a purveyor the dark art of lower brass musicianship? 🙂 Oh hey our conservative government is trying
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The 500 – A cautionary tale for North American Workers
The rights we enjoy today in Canada as workers and professionals were not given to us. It was through bloody at times, collective struggle that our rights as workers were imposed on the capitalist class. Power never makes concessions – struggles for basic working benefits must be fought for
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The 500 – A Cautionary Tale for North American Workers
The rights we enjoy today in Canada as workers and professionals were not given to us. It was through determined, bloody at times, never-say-die, collective struggle that our rights as workers were imposed on the capitalist class. Power never makes concessions – struggles for basic working benefits must be
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Equality Doorway…
Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Comix of the Day, Equality, Feminism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Equality Doorway…
Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Comix of the Day, Equality, Feminism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Moving Away, Slowly and Painfully from Theism
The deconversion process does some pretty wacky things to people. We join Evidence and his tale of his journey away from the theism that held him prisoner for so long. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: Christianity, Deconversion, Theism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Moving Away, Slowly and Painfully from Theism
The deconversion process does some pretty wacky things to people. We join Evidence and his tale of his journey away from the theism that held him prisoner for so long. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: Christianity, Deconversion, Theism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Storytime – The Joys of ‘Choice’ Feminism
Warning – Crusty Second Wave Analysis ahead :> OK, let’s say your plane crashes on a desert island, where a mysterious group of Others brings you to a temple. They give you two options: One, you can stay with them and have all your needs met, as long as
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Storytime – The Joys of ‘Choice’ Feminism
Warning – Crusty Second Wave Analysis ahead :> OK, let’s say your plane crashes on a desert island, where a mysterious group of Others brings you to a temple. They give you two options: One, you can stay with them and have all your needs met, as long as
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – The Afterlife’s Afterlife.
This video by Darkmatter2525 takes awhile to get going, but the setup to show the parallels between the arguments used for the afterlife by believers now and how silly the arguments sounds for the after-afterlife sound are well worth the slow reveal. Enjoy. Filed under: Religion Tagged: DarkMatter2525, The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – The Afterlife’s Afterlife.
This video by Darkmatter2525 takes awhile to get going, but the setup to show the parallels between the arguments used for the afterlife by believers now and how silly the arguments sounds for the after-afterlife sound are well worth the slow reveal. Enjoy. Filed under: Religion Tagged: DarkMatter2525, The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: NERD NEWS: bell hooks Phone Line Saves Women From Street Harrassment
The Arbourist: Another item for your anti-creepy dude tool-kit. 🙂 Originally posted on The Life and Times of A Black Girl Nerd: Women everywhere have been giving a great gift: the Tumblr, Feminist Phone Intervention. We have all been accosted, at some point, for our phone number when we were not
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: NERD NEWS: bell hooks Phone Line Saves Women From Street Harrassment
The Arbourist: Another item for your anti-creepy dude tool-kit. 🙂 Originally posted on The Life and Times of A Black Girl Nerd: Women everywhere have been giving a great gift: the Tumblr, Feminist Phone Intervention. We have all been accosted, at some point, for our phone number when we were not
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Sexual Revolution – Bell Hooks
Damn women getting all uppity and full of agency, the nerve… “Men celebrated our sexual liberation — our willingness to freely give and enjoy blow jobs and group sex, our willingness to experiment with anal penetration — but ultimately many males revolted when we stated that our bodies were territories
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