Changing that one phrase will be a start, but certainly not the entire project. The misogyny hard coded into our patriarchal society won’t go away by itself. “when she was 7, a boy pushed her on the playground she fell headfirst into the dirt and came up with a mouthful
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Dead Wild Roses: Elliot Rodger and illusions of nuance
The Arbourist: Glosswatch dispels the illusions growing around the murders in Santa Barbra Too Good not to reblog. Originally posted on glosswatch: Misogyny is not particularly nuanced. It has a long history and manifests itself in different ways across different cultures, but essentially it’s always the same: hating women, viewing them as
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Elliot Rodger And Men Who Hate Women
The Arbourist: Watch in the comments section as dudes bring out gems “like Not All Men are Like That” and “MRA’s are about Equality not Misogyny”. All to the riff of that Women are somehow responsible for the problems of Men. Originally posted on The Belle Jar: TW for violence
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Can We Trust Scientists?
Damn right we can, as long the evidence they present present the most accurate view of reality. Religious claims do not do a good job of describing the reality we live in, they are inaccurate, rely on hearsay and reflect an ignorant and scared world view. Filed under: Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Minute Physics – How to See Without Glasses
As a bespectacled individual, I was hoping for something a little more high tech. 🙂 On the upside, it is good to know when you’re in a pinch. Filed under: Science Tagged: How to See Without Glasses, Minute Physics, Physics, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Les Miserables
Some productions should not leave the stage. Hollywood…just…stop…please… Filed under: Music Tagged: Cinema Sins, Les Miserables, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Turkish Canaries – Capitalism Doing What it Does Best
The general capitalist framework sets up people and resources for exploitation. Without a strong social democratic counterweight to capitalist exploitation we necessarily get the tragic results as exemplified by the mine disaster in Soma, Turkey. “Turkish police are investigating 18 people, including mining company executives and personnel, as part of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Climate Change – Bill Moyers and David Suzuki
Why is it that we bow down before the market? It is not a fundamental force of nature, yet we in society are instructed to think of it as such. Filed under: Politics, Science Tagged: Bill Moyers, Climate Change, David Suzuki, Economics
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Welcome Back Polio…
Many thanks to anti-vaxers and of course the CIA for doing the stupid shite they are famous for and making the world a worse place in the process. Filed under: Medicine, Science Tagged: Medicine, Polio, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: John Pilger – A World War is Beckoning
I’m frightened for the wrong reasons. If I listened and believed what I was supposed to believe I would be afraid that the Russians are provoking the West into military conflict in Ukraine. The problem is that I’m more of afraid of what We are doing to destabilize the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice Extra Edition – The Freedom to Believe in Stupid Ideas (Religion)
Dear Religious people, Have you thanked your local atheist today? If not, you should because atheism and by extension secular society, is saving you from the immoral loopy shit your bronze age beliefs demand. The latest demonstration of how immoral and barbaric religion is comes to us from the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Is Christianity Moral
You can bet your bottom dollar it is not, but let’s allow DarkMatter2525 illustrate yet another putrid facet of the glory of christianity. Mmm…sweet sweet torture symbols for the winz! Filed under: Religion Tagged: christian “morality”, DarkMatter2525, Morality, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice, Torture
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tabacco Farming – Child Labour in the USA
The news: If you’re a 7-year-old in the U.S., you are by law too young to buy a cigarette at the counter — but you are old enough to work in the tobacco fields as a day laborer. Human Rights Watched released a disturbing report Wednesday on child labor in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Death Panels. Stupid Ideas Conservatives Dream Up.
Reactionary commentators are famous for making up bullshit ideas designed to scare ignorant people. The American right has the trademark on this particular ploy as they fight to remain the last industrialized country without Universal Health care. I bet they have contests to see how many poor people they can
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Death Panels. Stupid Ideas Conservatives Dream Up.
Reactionary commentators are famous for making up bullshit ideas designed to scare ignorant people. The American right has the trademark on this particular ploy as they fight to remain the last industrialized country without Universal Health care. I bet they have contests to see how many poor people they can
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: But MEN get objectified just as much as Women do…
Ah, the familiar strains of the equalist argument blithly denying the power gradients and class structure present in society. It warms my heart when this old chestnut get brought out displaying the deep level of ignorance and self-importance of the dude that is usually mansplaining it to me. But hey,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: But MEN get objectified just as much as Women do…
Ah, the familiar strains of the equalist argument blithly denying the power gradients and class structure present in society. It warms my heart when this old chestnut get brought out displaying the deep level of ignorance and self-importance of the dude that is usually mansplaining it to me. But hey-hey,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – It takes faith to be an Atheist?
Like most religious objections to Atheism, the idea that it takes faith, just like the believers own, not endorse magic and mythology. Spoiler: It doesn’t. Let the following video detail exactly why this religious claim fails. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: ArguingfromIgnorance, Atheism, It takes Faith?, The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – It takes faith to be an Atheist?
Like most religious objections to Atheism, the idea that it takes faith, just like the believers own, not endorse magic and mythology. Spoiler: It doesn’t. Let the following video detail exactly why this religious claim fails. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: ArguingfromIgnorance, Atheism, It takes Faith?, The
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