The tatters and gaping imperfections of religion are obvious once you hold the fecal laced tapestry up to the light. Hitchen’s despite his flaws does a fantastic job of laying bare the feeble nature of religious belief. Once again, on ABC’s television program Q&A, the tough issues are tackled.
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Dead Wild Roses: Betrayed by Lovable Mr.Spoon
🙂 Thank you Thug Kitchen. Filed under: Humour Tagged: Humour, Spoons
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Male Gaze – Meghan Murphy slams the Globe and Mail
Wow, ran across the Feminist Current and Meghan Murphy is knocking them out of the park with great articles such as this one tearing into one of Canada’s national newspapers, the Globe and Mail, for taking the well travelled low road of misogyny. I just have the highlights
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Memo to US christian Colleges and Business – Stop Trying to Break the Law
The christian majority continues to whinge about being oppressed. Tough beans theocrats – the law, for once, has women’s back on this issue. So when you see the christian whinge starting as illustrated below, you also have the answer to their false claim of being persecuted. Whinge: How does forcing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tariq Ali on Thatcher
Tariq Ali is one of the new left’s better thinkers. His writing is clear and often wittily incisive and thus has forced me to purchase several of his works. This is a interview snippet from Counterpunch on the legacy of Margaret Thatcher. Q: What is Mrs Thatcher’s legacy? TA:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quotes of the Day – Clues for Liberal White Dudes – On Experiences
On the experience of women in society: “Like most women, I currently live in a society where violence, harassment and scary shit can break out at any moment, just because I told some random asshole “no” without bothering to be nice about it. Doing that is so dangerous that most
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Canadian feminist activist receives death threats and other abuse after being targeted by Men’s Rights Activists
Reblogged from man boobz: And so the MRAs have found yet another woman to hate. Earlier this month, as many of you no doubt know, a Men’s Rights group sponsored a lecture at the University of Toronto. The event drew protesters, and the protesters drew MRAs with video cameras. One
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – On Slutwalks
The Feminist Current is a great site for understanding and staying up to date with feminism in Canada. This quote is from the conclusion of an article about the Vancouver Slutwalk, but addresses what many feminists find problematic about what Slutwalks are about. The italics are mine. “Despite numerous
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – A Tribute to Christian Music
It is important to celebrate the aspects of religion that bring a smile to your face. This clip has been exercising my smile muscles since I first saw it. I’m such a fan of the yodel-rap. So, we have the above and then we have stuff like this –
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Creepy Cull of Female Protagonists – Jimquisition
No objectification going on here Ms.Facetitsass. None at all. Embedding in wordpress sucks. Thus, I am only able to provide the link to the video I would like you to watch. Jimquisition, featured on the pop culture gaming site The Escapist, puts crass behaviour and bombast squarely in the centre
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – J.S Bach Motet BWV 227
Jesu, meine Freude is a motet composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. The work, which takes its title from the chorale by Johann Franck on which it is based, is also known as Motet No. 3 in E minor, BWV 227. The stanzas of the chorale are interspersed with passages from
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Let’s Ban Lifejackets…
Now we get to play catch the subtext… 🙂 Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Contraception, Feminism, Hard RIght Logic in Action, Rape, Rape Culture
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Inequality Crisis – The RSA
Inequality is going to kick our ass if we don’t take measures to rectify the imbalances in your societies. The topic of this video is interesting; the presenter not so much. I recommend watching the video if you have a keen interest in how our world is working, but do
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Weighty Subject Indeed.
Such interesting fuss over how we measure our world. 🙂 Just play the video before I make a mass of myself. Filed under: Science Tagged: Kilogram, Science, Weights and Measures
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape Culture – We Live it – Part II
If you missed out of what Rape Culture is, I suggest you go back and look at yesterdays post. Today, lets enumerate a small sample of what is going on in our society. Specifically, lets look at some of posts from the tumblr “I Once Had A Guy Tell Me…”
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Oh pish-posh! What is Arb going on about now? You see bro’s it kinda goes like this. You dudes, especially the liberal progressive privileged ones, often don’t have a fucking clue about what feminism is or why it has come about or some of the neat things that LWD never
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Stupid Places on the Web – Feminism is True
The abject fuckwittery of some people never fails to astonish. Somewhere in the universe the being in charge of giving clues just died a little on the inside. I shall deal only with the header from this particular cesspool of a blog. We’ll just file this under I’ll pull remarkably
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Lawrence Krauss featured on Q&A
You know what makes religion go away? Discussing it and teasing out how amazingly toxic it is for people in modern society. Where is the CBC on this media front? We in Canada desperately need a platform to talk about the tough issues that face our societies. Lawrence Krauss slams
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: "Women hit back at India’s rape culture"
Reblogged from Anti-Porn Feminists: Inspiring story from India, where a group of women from a slum have grouped together to learn self defense and to challenge, violently when necessary, the epidemic levels of sexual harassment and violence women in their community face every day. It’s worth making a comparison between
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Having a bad week…Tar Sands style
Filed under: Politics Tagged: PR Folly, Shit Harper Did, Tar Sands
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