Calm, reasoned, and sensical. Listen to Professor Stock engage with the debate around gender identity and self ID.
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Dead Wild Roses: Dr. Stephen Levine on the 13 Untruths Behind Gender Affirmative Therapies
The truth about transgender ideology as always been there, it has just been that people have been too afraid to speak out against it. The tide is turning. On Feb 21, 2023 the Florida House Health & Human Services Committee heard testimony from licensed psychiatrist Stephen Levine MD. He outlined
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Riley Gaines – Heroine of the Day
Who would have thought that denying reality in sports would make sports unfair. The days of bullshite openly on parade are quickly coming to close. Reality and female rights shall once again have their day in the sun, and not a moment too soon.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Relgious Disservice
Well, the commentator at the bottom does make a fair point…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Happy Canada Day!
Happy Canada Day!
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Brahms, Geisliches Lied, op. 30 (1856)
Singing this at Summer Choir. It’s beautiful.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Trans “Existence” – The Motte & Bailey Tactic Illustrated.
Know it when you see it. “A very common (and newly-named) informal rhetorical trick I’ve been observing, both online and in real life, is this one right here. The motte-and-bailey fallacy (also known as the ‘motte-and-bailey doctrine’). Although it is often found in arguments made by supporters of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Importance of Shared Language and Shared Meanings in Society
Objective truth, outside of philosophy, needs to make a comeback in society. “Increasingly, Western societies – especially the English-speaking countries – are becoming two different peoples speaking two very different languages and believing in two modes of living. One camp believes in some form of objective truth and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Ideology Behind the ‘Expanded’ Pride Flags –
You cannot cure what you don’t understand. Let’s, with the help from Woke Watch Canada, understand what is going on under the hood of the activist Left and their gender ideology. “So what is the ideology behind the activists pushing these expanded pride flags? First it is clear that
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Subjectivity – Gender Identity
This is from a resource aimed at children and teachers to ‘educate’ them on the finer points of gender-woo. It is here the notion of the unfalsifiable gender-soul is born. This woo, because of Bill C-16 is a category. In the same list as “sex” in our Charter. See the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude – Mozart’s Requiem – Kyrie
Just listen to this choir drive through the Kyrie of Mozart’s requiem. Glorious.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why I am Leaving the Cult of Wokeness – Open Letter
A long read, but it illustrates the journey from being part of the activist left to becoming a useful member of society. If there’s one thing I’m NOT afraid of, it’s being ‘cancelled’. If being cancelled means me living in integrity as a human being who thinks for themselves, CANCEL
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Recommitting to Canadian Values – Josh Dehaas
Identity politics sow division and strife within society. We need to revisit the idea that we are all Canadians first and foremost. We come in all different shapes, beliefs, and abilities. Those differences and the acceptance of our actual diversity is what makes Canada a wonderful place to live and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Together we can…
When your phrasing goes horribly wrong.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Thought Terminating Cliches – “The Far Right”
Discussing issues about our society in the online world is almost always a contentious affair, but lately it seems that people are particularly unwilling to engage in conversation and debate. One of the terms that is getting thrown around liberally is the “the Far Right”. Any point of disagreement once
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