Mia Ashton writes on Canadian Bill C-36 and its implications for women and feminists who have taken up the mantle of defending female rights and boundaries in Canadian society. “There is the same complete lack of understanding surrounding this proposed hate speech legislation. Most people in Canada are not
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Dead Wild Roses: Predators and Safe Spaces – Eva Comrie
Male violence (and the threat of male violence) still shapes women’s lives here in 21st century. We have not advanced past the stage of needing female only spaces and strong rules regarding the safeguarding of women and children from predatory men. The transgender idea of self – identification inserts a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Wild West of Gender Therapy in Canada – The Canadian Gender Report
It is wise to seek council from many voices especially on the topic of children experiencing gender dysphoria. The professionals here seem quite biased toward a medical solution to for this family’s child. They seem unaware of what is going on in the UK and the unwarranted medication of
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: On Fads and Pop Culture Gurus
Interesting discussion here (linked below), on the power of ritual, the positive functions of mythology, and the value of mentors. One negative point: the cold immersion fad is rooted in ignorance. If you preheat your body with saunas, sweat lodges or vigorous exercise, a short cold dunk is very health-promoting,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Local Man In Dress Discovers Twitter Isn’t Real Life. Full Story at 11 – Aberdeen, Washington Star Wars Store Owner Don Sucher Boldly States What We All Know.
What a delightful backfire this is. The entire kerfuffle was, most likely, staged by trans activists to be a propaganda piece (a confederate had the camera rolling throughout the confrontation) against a shop owner with this sign. Here is the sign in question. “Just out Dr.Seuss’s New Book –
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Chomsky on Meritocracy
“And his analysis of “meritocracy” reveals the crude and misleading assumptions about creativity and intelligence upon which it rests. Instead of the comforting rationale that merit breeds success and that the successful have merit, Chomsky suggests, a more rational approach would be to speculate that in our society “wealth
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Identity Politics Are So Prevalent
I mean, the short answer is that identity politics are useless. But the long detailed answer is good too.
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Big Brother Is Watching You – and Yes, It Matters
I talked to my boy in the car this past weekend about what to do when he drives, if he has any problems; and he talked to me about the language learning, free software that he uses on his phone. Two days later, Virgin Mobile, now owned by Bell, sends
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Identity Politics in Action – When “Who” is more important that “What”.
Identity politics serves to corrupt the notions of morality, common sense, and what it means to live in a society under the rule of law. This is a brief examination of a twitter thread I stumbled across about the recent cases of Catholic Churches being burnt down as misguided retaliation
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: On Narcissism & Independence
The fourth of July….I realize only now, that is today’s date, as I finish writing this short reflection. How fitting. Independence Day. Now, let us talk about where real independence comes from. * The real pandemic, or one of the many that afflicts the modern world, is mass narcissistic regression
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Debate Me Coward – This is What We’re Up against.
Cortana please show me how coherent the gender identity position is. You get a cookie if you can get past 20 minutes.
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: The Marieval Residential School
This weekend Ms Soapbox was going to write a breezy little blog saying she was taking the summer off. She was going to wish everyone a safe and pleasant summer and ask them to check back here on September 5, 2021, to resume the battle of trying to stay ahead
Continue readingScripturient: The Beatles: Songs and Lives
This week I finished re-reading The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz, the best biography I’ve read of the group that defined music, culture, and style in the Sixties: the era I grew up in. I’ve read several other bios in the past, both of the band and of the
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Fighting Racism in Kenney’s Alberta
Sometimes it pays to sit through a 53 minute 42 second Kenney press conference because something unexpected will happen at the very end. In this case it happened at the 46:24 mark. Last week in the wake of the horrific attack on the Afzaal family in London, premier Kenney and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Victory for Women, Victory for Maya Forstater, Victory for Free and Democratic Speech in Society
This ruling changes the environment. This UK ruling states that gender critical beliefs are also protected beliefs under law in the the UK. In other words, you can’t be fired from your job for stating the blindly obvious *FACT* that human beings cannot change their sex. This is a
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Jason Kenney’s Thoughts on Residential Schools
The only reason I’m going to mention the Sky Palace scandal in the same post as the deaths of 215 Indigenous children at a former residential school in Kamloops BC is because the Sky Palace scandal pulled our focus away from Jason Kenney’s utterly inappropriate response to the history of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Halifax Pride Goes Full Tranish Inquisition (and fails) on Halifax Public Library
Let’s start of with Halifax Pride statement of desperately hurt feelings: In recent weeks, Halifax Pride was made aware of a petition asking the Halifax Public Library to remove a newly acquired book that jeopardizes the safety of trans youth, through unsupported medical claims and the transphobic assertion that trans
Continue readingScripturient: Musings on Art and Taste
Many years ago, I had a lengthy correspondence with a friend in another part of Canada about what constitutes art. His basic argument was that art was not neutral or generic, but was the final product of high achievement: real art was “good” art. That is, art was defined by
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