Ms.Betty Bowers thoughts on the 2014 Olympics. Filed under: Ethics, Gender Issues, International Affairs Tagged: bigotry, discrimination, Olympics, Russia
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Dead Wild Roses: Post Atomic Fungi?
A short and quick look into some of the ‘winners’ of a nuclear disaster. I’m not going to build my next out mushrooms quite yet though. Filed under: Science Tagged: Atomic Bombs, Fungi, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dudes be Dude’in – Space in Public Transportation.
I just needed to share this with you, gentle readers. My humble experiences on other feminists blogs reminds me that women discussing women’s issues is a clairion call that rouses the dudes who either don’t have a clue what’s going on, or by the rights invested in their ‘peen, decide
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – I Am The Innocent
Religious doctrine that is absolute bollocks for women, how rare. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Child Brides, Stupid Traditions, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice, Women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tell Me Again Why We Don’t Need Feminism – Kidnapped Women as Truck Decals
The following pictures are truck decals;pictures you would paste on to the back of your truck bed. I assume this is so you can ‘pimp’ your truck in order to share with the world your creepily-violent-asshole side. These are actual things in the world. Unfuckingbelievable . Filed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Classical Greek Women – Badassery Maxxed.
THIS IS MARRIAGE!! Thats right! Permission to be a bad ass. Nod. He looks back at the guy like, “SEE THAT? SHE SAID YES. YOU’RE SO FUCKED.” Like, guys. Sparta was so kick ASS sometimes when it came to women. Spartan women were given these small knives so that if
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Beethoven, Pathetique Sonata, 3rd Movement
Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, commonly known as Sonata Pathétique, was written in 1798 when the composer was 27 years old, and was published in 1799. Beethoven dedicated the work to his friend Prince Karl von Lichnowsky.[1] Although commonly thought to be one
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Crystal Clear Consent – Words to Live By.
A big thank you to Caine over at Pharyngula for posting these rules. CCC (Crystal Clear Consent): * First of all: Understand that if you go forward with initiating sexual activity not knowing if consent exists, you may or may not be raping someone, but you have proved beyond a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The First and Second 9/11 – The Hidden End of Chilean Democracy
Greetings gentle readers, should we not consider the first 9/11 and also mourn for its victims? The first 9/11 essentially ruined Chile as a country; Chile was thrown backward into dictatorial hell where thousand of its citizens were systematically abducted, tortured and murdered. Why we choose not to mourn
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: We Are What We Loathe – Chris Hedges on 9/11
Chris Hedges went to ground zero during the attacks on the World Trade Centre. This is part of the article that he wrote in 2011 – I returned that night to the newsroom hacking from the fumes released by the burning asbestos, jet fuel, lead, mercury, cellulose
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminism 101 – Important Concepts
Almost always when discussing Feminism there is a person that decides to add to the discussion and proceed to *argle-bargle* on about things when in fact they are proving most adroitly that they cannot find their ass with both hands. Education is one of the goals of this blog and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why is the Sky Dark at Night?
Minute Physics, unlike myself has the answer. 🙂 Filed under: Science Tagged: Minute Physics, Why is the Sky Dark at Night
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Philosophic Failures of Christian Apologetics
Have you ever run up against a fine deluded individual who, in their desperation to ‘prove’ their grand ooga-booga exists, busts out the Ontological argument? It sucks, as the OA relies a lot on the more informal rhetorical process known as BBB or bullshit baffles brains. Let’s travel with AntiCitizenX
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Today in Rape Culture: DC Comics
Easy pickings today as the comic book genre is not exactly a bastion of feminism. That being said, it just behooves me not to share the head slapping stupidity of the people who designed an open contest to see if they have “the chops” to join the DC team. Let’s
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Institution of Traditional Marriage…
Needs not to be like this…not back then, not now and not in the future. If it is, get help immediately, or not so immediately if you can. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Domestic Violence, DWR PSA, Traditional Marriage
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Tallis, Spem in alium (40-voice motet)
Yes, if you get a chance to go to this live, spend the $$ and the time and go experience it. The motet is laid out for eight choirs of five voices (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass). It is most likely that Tallis intended his singers to stand in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Captain Awkward’s Words of Wisdom – The Female “No”
You know what privilege is? It’s not having to expend the mental energy to do certain things or even having to think about doing certain thing. Another fun fact your perceptions and reactions are yours and yours alone and as a general rule of thumb should *not* be
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day:Dworkin On Pornography
“The most terrible thing about pornography is that it tells male truth. The most insidious thing about pornography is that it tells male truth as if it were universal truth. Those depictions of women in chains being tortured are supposed to represent our deepest erotic aspirations. And some of us
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Lawrence Krauss: Quantum Computing
Dr.Krauss is not really comfortable speaking in this format, but lays down some of the basic technical challenges faced by those who would construct the world’s first quantum computer. Filed under: Science Tagged: Quantum Mechanics, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: One Hell of a Feminist Mission Statement.
I wish I had thought of this. Patriarchy is a term used to describe a system in which males are socialized at birth to acquire a set of attributes that are meant to maintain a sex-specific hierarchical system that establishes them as superior to females and grants them more
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