Laurie Penny has a great review of some of Jordan Peterson’s work, this quote illustrates the continued reliance of sociobiological principles by JP. “Peterson insists in the very first chapter of 12 Rules for Life that if you’re an adult human man worried about your place in the world, you’ve
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Corporate Jesus
The spirit of the season, thank goodness its over (for now).
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Six questions for genderqueer feminist Laurie Penny
Six important questions for the Genderqueer. bodycrimes Laurie Penny is a compelling writer. Her smackdown of the Charlatan-Known-As-Jordan-Peterson is a joy to behold, as was her behind-the-scenes look at the Milo Yiannopoulos phenomenon. What makes her worth reading isn’t just her facility with words, but her well-honed bullshit detector, which
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: This Just In: Albertans Still Starry Eyed over Unabashed Corporatism
“A poll that surveyed nearly 1,000 Albertans earlier this month found the United Conservative Party have a large lead over the NDP and would win if an election was held today. The Mainstreet Research poll has the UCP with 56 per cent support among decided and leaning voters, which translates
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday New Year Baroque Interlude – J. S. Bach: Jesu, nun sei gepreiset (BWV 41)
Jesus, now be praised at this new year for Your goodness, revealed to us in all necessity and danger, that we have reached this new joyful time, that soars full of grace and eternal blessedness; that we, in peaceful stillness have completed the old year. We wish to give
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Free Speech Award Goes to Meghan Murphy – Congratulations!
See the other award winners at the Quillette.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Challenge of the Left – Looking Good vs. Being Effective
Written by Dr. Caroline Norma her piece is about running up against the male centric Left in Australia. Inside her essay though are a couple of paragraphs that deserve extra attention. The notion that appearance and allegiance to the right things is taking precedence over effective action is an important
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Your Day of Hope – How to Build A Dyson Sphere – In a Nutshell
Before getting back into, well, the usual. Let’s go all future bright best possible case land for the New Year.
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Just sayn’. Happy New Year folks. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Suffocation of the Womb: The Cure? Medieval Masturbation (what else?)
Aeon magazine is just a grand cornucopia of interesting facts. My knowledge of medieval sexual practices has been double if not trebled by just reading the one article I’ve quoted here. 🙂 It is fascinating how well we actually did without the scientific method to back up our ‘facts’/ Admittedly
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What Patriarchy?
Scribbles In The Corner I don’t know how to draw but I made this because I’m tired of people thinking we don’t need feminism. These are just everyday examples of patriarchy, sexism and toxic masculinity. The tip of the misogynist iceberg. View original post
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Violence of Pornography and the Damage Done to Females – Resource List.
Pornography is not free speech. It is a teaching tool for toxic patriarchal values that hurt women. Need to start looking into the topic of the harms of pornography? This list isn’t a bad place to start. https://bunnyemily.tumblr.com/post/181348764986/radicalacceptance-tell-me-again-how
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Tanya’s Comment on Twitter’s Trans-Activist Decree on the Quillette I’m following the Meghan Murphy Twitter-ban debacle and one of the places where I landed was the Quillette. As it turns out, Megan Murphy has written a piece describing what happened to her and her struggle with the totalitarian ideology
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Holiday Interlude – The West Wing – In Excelsis Deo
Christmas time. Celebrate the season; live with loss. Be happy; feel the keen echoes of what once was. Remain standing; help others when you can. Have a Merry Christmas and a Joyous New Year from all of us here at DWR. Arbourist Mystro Bleatmop
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Holiday Interlude – White Wine in the Sun
Seasons greetings folks. Tim Minchin snuck a new recording of this atheist hymn out last year. It’s good. A personal message as well this year. Take stock of what is around you and enjoy the relationships that you have, nothing is forever as much as we’d like it to be.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Disciplining Martina: Heretics and the Church of Trans Normativity
“Rachel’s behaviour to Martina is exactly a demonstration of the way in which the moral logic of queer ‘inclusivity’ has now become a hegemonic, punitive, and profoundly disciplinary discourse. As we have all been noting over the last months, trans and radical queer activism is animated by a deeply authoritarian
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – C.Monteverdi – Zefiro Torna , oh di soavi accenti
ENGLISH VERSION: Return O Zephyr, and with gentle motion Make pleasant the air and scatter the grasses in waves And murmuring among the green branches Make the flowers in the field dance to your sweet sound; Crown with a garland the heads of Phylla and Chloris With notes tempered
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