We have not had a visualization in awhile so lets take a look at the first movement of Mozart’s Flute Quartet in C Major, K. 285b, performed by American Baroque, with a scrolling bar-graph score. Filed under: Music Tagged: Flute Quartet in C major K. 285b 1st mvt. Allegro, Mozart,
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Dead Wild Roses: The Media Gender Gap
The red pen of justice is wiggling, but I’ve run out of time. We’ll make do with this rage building infographic while I see if I can scrape some time together during the week to compose the piece that is swirling in my brain. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Gender,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “Stability” – You’d be surpirsed what it trumps.
Democracy, human rights, humanitarian intervention all fall at the wayside when it comes to the West supporting “stability” in the Middle East. We wonder why the residents are so pissed off at us and cheer when bad things happen to the West. I’m guessing it has a little something
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Evidence in Action – Plug your ears now Anti-Choice Advocates.
The Guttmacher Institute is all about giving women the rights to control their reproductive future and of course their bodies. The pro-woman, pro-choice position is based on evidence and facts that no amount of prayer, handwaving or appeals to emotion can over come. Being that your position(my beloved anti-choicers) is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Mendacity, thy name is Fox News
Deceptive, misleading and manipulative. That would be the Faux News in a nutshell. Liberal viewer carefully dissects the bullcookery for your viewing pleasure. Filed under: Humour Tagged: Faux News Fail, Fox News Follies, Liberal Viewer, Media
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Reducing Abortion Rate – Women Focus Reproductive Care
Brain Trauma inducing thought of the day: By trusting women and giving them control of their reproductive future, less unplanned pregnancies and less abortions will occur. [tick tick tick….head asplodes….] I know, how crazy is that? Women…you know the ones that have children…are in the best position to decide whether
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Immoral Atheists?
It is funny how often this claim comes up when engaging with the godbaggy crowd. You would think, seeing the historical record of authoritarian rule, that blindly following the dictates would not be a celebrated accomplishment. Potholer54 takes a hard look at this claim and provides a solid factual argument
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Grand New Low for Pro-Life sites equating Abortion to Sandyhook Elementary Victims
Hypocrisy is flowing from the anti-choice sites like turds from a overfull diaper. The idea that they are somehow committed to the preservation of life is the weapons-grade bullshite that religious thinking actively promotes. The pious fucks are equating abortion to the recent mass murder at Sandyhook Elementary School. How
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Against our Will – The Legal System
Susan Brownmillar examines the role of the justice system with regards to rape. Or perhaps more accurately the “male-justice” system. [On raping a minor under the age of consent] […] States with a high age of consent usually employ the chastity standard for the upper-age limits. In some
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interulde – The CBC Singnature Series – F Sharp Minor: The Recluse
Many thanks to the CBC and Paolo Pietropaolo for bringing the Signature Series to life. F-sharp minor: The Recluse Also known as: The Cat Lady Miss Lonelyhearts F-sharp minors you might know: Miss Havisham from Great Expectations. Annie Wilkes from Stephen King’s Misery. Edith Bouvier Beale. The notes: F♯- G♯ –
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Another Blog Milestone?
You betcha ladies and gentlemen. 500,000 hits to the blog as of a couple of days ago. Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to share with us here at DWR. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: DWR Housekeeping, The 500k celebration, Woo
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dead Wild Roses – PSA Thrusday
Not ever. “The way women dress and conduct themselves is constantly under scrutiny – particularly in the context of sexual assault. The notion that particular styles or clothes choices can be factors that contribute to sexual assault are ludicrous and damaging to women – as well as being insulting to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape Culture, there is an app for that?
Building communities to protect women via technology, sounds okay to me. Anyhow, the Circle of 6 app is meant to give people, with expensive first world technology, some options. Here is the press blurb from the site. “With Circle of 6 you have a new way to connect with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Racism and the Walking Dead
Interesting article over at alter.net on the contexts and subtext of the TV show The Walking Dead. I suggest you read it. As I was linking running I came across the comments section of a different article by the same author. The exchange that will be reproduced here is instructive
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quote of the Day – Noam Chomsky on Democracy
Just to darken your day a little – “The Obama campaign greatly impressed the public relations industry, which named Obama ‘Advertising Age’s marketer of the year for 2008,’ easily beating out Apple computers. A good predictor of the elections a few weeks later. The industry’s regular task is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – DarkMatter2525 on God’s Priorities
One way to tell your position is full of shite? The amount of mental gymnastics required to make it sound coherent and palatable to someone else. Care to guess where christianity fits into the picture? Let DarkMatter2525 give you a clue: Spend some time thinking if you have the god-bug
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day
“Unless we accept that women are biologically programmed to engage in beauty practices, then they need to be understood as cultural practices that are required of women. All practices required of one sex class rather than the other should be examined for their political role in maintaining male dominance. “
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The CBC Signature Series – D-flat Major
Thanks to the CBC and Paolo Pietropaolo for hosting the CBC Signature Series. The key de jour is D flat major. D-flat major: The Free Spirit Also known as: The Flower Child. The New Age Mystic. D-flat majors you might know: Marianne Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility. Anne of Green Gables.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Wow – Homemade BSG Space Battle
Did you want to thank someone today? Thank the youtube user VFXUAS for making this BSG short by hand on home computer. Filed under: Media Tagged: Awesome, BSG, Kudos
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Boom! – Rights of Women – Justice Ginsburg
Filed under: Ethics, Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Responsibility, Rights of Women
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