If you’ve spent any time on the internet eventually you’ll run across a perfectly horrible subsection of the online community known as Men’s Rights Activists. These brave warrior souls have taken up the mighty struggle of the oppressed dominant majority and are serving as the tip of the spear against
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Dead Wild Roses: Patriarchal Role Clarification
Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Helpful Hints, Patriarchy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Beethoven, Violin Sonata No.8, 1st Movement.
For many classical music lovers, Beethoven’s eighth violin sonata lives in the long, fiery shadow of the ninth, better known as the “Kreutzer”. This is easy to understand, as the Kreutzer is a prime example of the stormy side of Beethoven—the one many listeners see as his most exciting and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Shrinking the God of the Gaps – Another step forward for Astrophysics
Some background on the the latest discovery about the nature of our universe. 🙂 The believers in ooga-booga should be feeling a bit less secure in their grand delusion (It’s a nice thought, but then again, since when do believers let facts get in the way of the TRUTH) .
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Anatomy of a coat hanger abortion
The Arbourist: Dear Pro-Life Assholes, this is what you’re campaigning for and it makes you horrible people. Originally posted on Dr. Jen Gunter: The coat hanger isn’t sterile. It isn’t even clean. If the woman, or girl, is alone she thrusts it blindly upwards into the vagina. She’s hoping it
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Women Shrink – Andrea Dworkin; Bell Hooks – On Feminism
A couple of feminist quote of the day just for my AVFM friends who might be lurking around in the shadows waiting to explain how oppressed being (usually) white and male is. “Men often react to women’s words – speaking and writing – as if they were acts of violence;
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When CNN trumps Fox News for Bullshit – Black Holes and Missing Planes.
Hey media friends, did you all just here that slight popping noise? That was my cerebral cortex disconnecting itself from all of its higher functions after viewing this lovely clip on CNN about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight. This is what happens when news is cobbled together out of speculation,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Civilization, Capitalism, Consumption – Why stop the Orgy?
I’m glad I’ll be dead when humanity’s collective shit hits the fan. I used to get all wrapped up in debates about Capitalism and the slow motion Seppuku we’re committing. I was genuinely flummoxed when my arguments were characterized as hopelessly naive and that my positions were unfounded vis-a-vis economic
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Send Yourself to Hell
Dark Matter2525 takes on the religious idea that somehow because we have free will their grand ooga-booga is somehow a less terrible entity for creating and sending people to hell. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Christianity, DarkMatter2525, Hell, Religion, Send yourself to Hell, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – LOTR – Gandalf’s Lament
I just happen to have the sheet music for this piece. Now I just need to persuade TIO that she’s really an alto, and we’ll be set. Filed under: Music Tagged: Gandalf, Lament, LOTR
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Not Rape Epidemic – Latoya Peterson
Sometimes you just can’t pass up an opportunity to signal boost an important message. Trigger warnings for Rape, Sexual Abuse, Rape Culture Original Essay: The Not Rape Epidemic December 21, 2008 Latoya Peterson 1 Comment *Trigger Warning* Latoya’s Note: So, as promised, here’s the original version of the essay that
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Breaking News: Sharp Pencils to be banned in Public Schools
Tragic accidents happen. “A multimillion-dollar lawsuit has been launched by the parents of a student who almost died after being strangled by a lanyard at his school in Bearspaw just west of Calgary.” You don’t sue people for not thinking of every possibility that might happen. If this isn’t the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ram Pressure Stripping – More than close shave.
Now for your astronomical news of the week. The latest from the Hubble telescope. Filed under: Science Tagged: Astronomy, Ram Pressure, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Brussels Sprouts – Numberphile
Yet another reason to be wary of Mathematicians. Filed under: Science Tagged: Brussels Sprouts, Math, Sneaky
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The Ballad of Magellan
Yakko: There once was a man, his name was Magellan. A Portuguese skipper, the girls found him cute. He sailed with five ships to find the East Indies Then come back to Spain with a bounty of loot. The Warners: Whoopi-ti-yi-yo, oh, happy Magellan! Starting your journey with hardly a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How to Influence Teenagers and other People too.
Working in behavioural education means that much of this stuff is old hat for me, but sometimes isn’t as common knowledge as I think it is for others, so lets review some the tricksy-hobbit ways P-sychologists work their magic. We’ll pick up midway though the article: I asked Dahl what
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When Theism Takes a Drubbing
When actual science is involved, WLC loses. Dispensing the boots to the head is Sean Carroll. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Atheism, Debate, Sean Carroll, Theism, WLC
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Scourge of Cinema Sins is also my own.
Wallace, I think you had better stop networking with my own anti-blogging cat Fiona. 🙂 Filed under: Cute Tagged: Cat, Cinema Sins, Cute, Wallace the Cat
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fox News in One Screen Capture.
Funny and scary all at the same time. Filed under: Humour Tagged: Fox News, Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: International Women’s Day – Still Far to Go
Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, International Women’s Day
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