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Dead Wild Roses: Q&A – The Australian Broadcasting Corporation – Germaine Greer, Peter Hitchens, Dan Savage, Hanna Rosin
Oh Canada and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – Listen and watch this – this – is what good public broadcasting is like. Germaine Greer rocks the Sidney Opera house laying the smack down on Hitchens repeatedly throughout the program. Q&A is a joy to watch, and a feature that needs
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Remembrance Day – Soldiers Cry – Roland Majeau
Remembrance Day is a conflicted day for me, I have had the absolute luxury of never having to fight in an armed conflict and for that I am grateful. Conversely, the application of military power is always the sign of the failure of the human spirit when we must resort
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWE Sunday Disservice – Malala Yousafzai’s Book Banned
Pakistan announced that Malala Yousafzai’s book “I Am Malala” was banned from private schools. From the CBC: Officials say they have banned teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai’s book from private schools across Pakistan, calling her a tool of the West. It isn’t about religion, holiness, or allah, god (etc.).
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Stats the MRA’s Don’t Wan’t to Talk About.
“One of the most pervasive and undisputed gender stereotypes is that men are more aggressive than women. However, this stereotype has, until recently, led researchers to conclude that women are nonaggressive and, therefore, to ignore the topic of female aggression as a distinct phenomenon. The basis of the myth,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Brahms, Clarinet Quintet, Opus 115, 3rd Movement.
Andantino in D major, in common time evolving into Presto non assai, ma con sentimento in B minor in 2:4 time The shortest of all four, the movement begins sweetly being one of the composition’s few uplifting passages. In measure twenty-three, the clarinet and violin play as if they
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Unhappy Reality of Female Socialization :(
A helpful primer for the dudes out there. Thank you, Fugitivus “Here’s a situation every woman is familiar with: some guy she knows, perhaps a casual acquaintance, perhaps just some dude at the bus stop, is obviously infatuated with her. He’s making conversation, he’s giving her the eye. She
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Best Make Up Tutorial Evar!
🙂 Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Femimism, Makeup, satire, tutorial time
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Laundry Inspector Cat
Vishnu decided that our hamper needed 100% more cat hair and as his less than stealthy machinations reveal, 100% more cat. Filed under: Cute Tagged: Cat Blogging, Cute, Laundry Cat
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Every Reason for an Abortion is a Good Reason
From the article on Reality Check. “Abortion is often framed as a mercy bestowed upon a woman who has committed the “crime” of having had sex. Mercy is something that someone else grants you, however, and not something you can simply decide for yourself that you deserve. That’s what people
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – What Tops the Hand of God?
I’d like to quote-mine the christian apologist Francis Spufford for his thoughts on religion when he says that: That we’re [the religious] too stupid to understand the irrationality of our creeds. That we build absurdly complex intellectual structures, full of meaningless distinctions, on the marshmallow foundations of a fantasy. It’s
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Testing Homeopathy – As if you didn’t know already, but just in case.
For the people who think this stuff works… With many thanks to Cool Hard Logic for such a engaging presentation. Filed under: Quackery Tagged: Cool Hard Logic, homeopathy, Science Fail
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude: The CBC Signature Series – G Minor the Contrarian
Many thanks to Paolo Pietropaolo and the CBC for bringing us the Signature Series. G minor is a minor scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, B♭, C, D, E♭, and F. For the harmonic minor scale, the F is raised to F♯. Its relative major is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dragons Scales – Logarithms in Math Class
The more I hear about math post schooling, the more interesting it becomes. As a teacher, I’m a bit perplexed as throughout my checkered math learning career all of this cool stuff remained unmentioned. All I remember is the misery and frustration of learning largely esoteric shite, that once ‘mastered’
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Arbourist Furrows Brow at Bathroom Behaviour
One of my responsibilities in my part time job is to ensure that the bathrooms are reasonably clean and stocked, this equates roughly to once a shift boogieing around the building with a cart full of TP and paper towel (or many times during the most dreaded of all times
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: You’ve got to Hand it to Science – Liquid Nitrogen and the Leidenfrost effect.
I’m happy that other people have the knowledge and courage(!) to demonstrate scientific fact. Filed under: Science Tagged: Leidenfrost effect., Nitrogen, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The FreeXXX Girl
Reblogged from Archive of the Biting Beaver: “FreeXXXpics”. It’s a search I get all the time, and each and every time it pops up on sitemeter I want to scream at the top of my lungs. A few weeks ago I was sitting at my desk sipping gingerly on my
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Andrea Dworkin – Woman Hating, Right and Left.
“When we point out that there is a rape every three minutes, that a woman is beaten every eighteen seconds in this country, that’s very bad for women because it makes them feel victimized. And we’re not supposed to be bad and make women feel bad. This is the ultimate
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Side Effects of Pregnancy – Repost from Liz Library
This is a signal boost/handy reference that enumerates the risks women face when pregnant. It is a useful tool in dispelling the motherhood myths that surround what pregnancy is like for women and awesome it is for them. The Liz Library is a great website, but slow loading, thus its
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Red Leaves of Fall
I just learned the simple way of transferring photos from my phone to the blog. Here is one picture I took of a particularly nice tree framed from the stairwell of the where I work on campus. Filed under: Canada Tagged: Fall, Leaves, Photography
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