It would be nice to believe that we are past the era of patriarchal stereotypes. Unfortunately, this is not that case. PSA’s like these three pictures exist because even in the most advanced Western societies many people believe that the length of skirt a woman happens to be wearing determines
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Scripturient: Book collecting: snobbery or reading passion?
The book has always been a sign of status and refinement; a declaration of self-worth – even for those who hate to read. That’s the lead into a recent piece on Aeon Magazine about book collecting and collectors. It’s also about reading and the snobbery of readers. Fascinating piece. For
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Lundy Bancroft – On Abusive Men
“An abuser doesn’t change because he feels guilty or gets sober or finds God. He doesn’t change after seeing the fear in his children’s eyes or feeling them drift away from him. It doesn’t suddenly dawn on him that his partner deserves better treatment. Because of his self-focus, combined with
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: When Old White Guys Discover Memes
Ms Soapbox recently received a series of memes from an old white guy justifying his support of Trump’s anti-Muslim, anti-immigration, anti-refugee, anti-everything policies. She’s been seething ever since. Not because of their content (bad) but because of their appalling lack of critical thinking and digital fluency (the ability to find
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Noam Chomsky On Trump and American Politics
There is always hope. Filed under: Culture, Politics Tagged: American Politics, Hope, Noam Chomsky, Struggle
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The athletes’ revolt
Photo by Brook Ward By the time San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to take a stand against oppression by taking a knee during the national anthem, it will have been clear to even the most casual sports fan that we are in the midst of an athletes’ revolt.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Vancouver Women’s Library Vandalized – The Violent Trans/Queer Lobby in Action
I’m not sure when the definition of progressive queer activism changed to mean defiling and destroying women’s spaces, but unsurprisingly, the violent men of Queer activism (terrorism) are at it again. And quite honestly, they (GAG) can fuck the hell right off – violent patriarchal repression of women with
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Cultural Replicant Fade #nlpoli
The people of Gambo held their first mummers’ parade the December before last. The Gander Beacon, the weekly newspaper that covers events in Gambo, featured some pictures of the parade and a write-up on it. The town’s recreation director organised the event and the handful of people who took part
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The people of Gambo held their first mummers’ parade the December before last. The Gander Beacon, the weekly newspaper that covers events in Gambo, featured some pictures of the parade and a write-up on it. The town’s recreation director organised the event and the handful of people who took part
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Words Should Have Meanings…
Otherwise you get this: Filed under: Culture Tagged: Orwellian Happy Times, Po-Mo, Society
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – On Patriarchy
“There absolutely is a shared experience universal to all women under patriarchy. No matter what culture or religion or location, we all grow up with the pervasive message that we were made for men. This starts at our birth and ends when we die, and this is the experience every
Continue readingScripturient: Auden, Trump and poetry
There’s a poem by W. H. Auden (1907-73) going the internet rounds these days with suggestions of Auden’s prescience towards the latest American president and contemporary politics. It’s a powerful piece, but the bad news for conspiracy theorists is that Auden was a poet, not a prophet. A good poet,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Howard Zinn – What You Need to Know for the Next 4 Years.
Don’t like it, change it. These are the tools to do it. Filed under: Culture, Politics Tagged: Change, Corporate Power, Dark Times, Howard Zinn, People
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Oppressed White Men
Filed under: Culture Tagged: Humour, Sass
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: RBG Knows – You Cannot Become What You Cannot See
Krista Wujek Threefoot’s 8-year-old daughter Michele dressed up as Ruth Bader Ginsburg for superhero day at her school. True to RBG, Michele received a personal greeting days later. That folks, is how role modelling is done. Filed under: Culture Tagged: Awesome in Action, Female Role Model, RBG
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Excerpt – How feminists can challenge liberal bathroom politics – Robert Jensen
“Feminism recognizes that institutionalized male dominance is rooted in men’s control of women’s reproductive power (a source of other political struggles in Texas and beyond) and sexuality. In patriarchy, an enduring feature of the lives of girls and women is sexual violence — men’s unwanted intrusions into their lives. Women’s
Continue readingScripturient: It’s Not a Wonderful Life
I’m convinced many Americans – Donald Trump among them – think Frank Capra’s famous film, It’s a Wonderful Life, was a documentary, not entertainment. It has all the elements of Trumpist utopia: a white, Christian, unquestionably patriotic, male-dominated, patriarchal culture where the bad guy gets away with stealing from others,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: star wars
Author dudes, screen write dudes… Hell! Dudes of the creative class – watch and learn an important lesson that you’ve been missing well, since forever. Females beautifully ‘ruining’ Star Wars one movie at a time. 🙂 H/T to Rey Walker for the animated gifs. Filed under: Culture, Feminism, Media
Continue readingScripturient: The vulgar crowd
Profanum vulgus. The vulgar crowd. Not, however, as you might suspect, an apt description of the remaining few supporters of The Block that rules Collingwood Council. While perhaps appropriately described, to me that small handful are better described as naïve, gullible and even intellectually vulnerable, moreso than merely vulgar. But
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Inverted Totalitarianism – Sheldon Wolin
Take a look at what’s going on, look at the article. Should we be worried? You tell me. “Resisting the monopolies on left theory by Marxism and on democratic theory by liberalism, Wolin developed a distinctive—even distinctively American—analysis of the political present and of radical democratic possibilities. He was
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