Image by Disney This article contains spoilers. The Last Jedi, the eighth episode of the legendary Star Wars series, has been out for less than 10 days but already boasts well over $650 million in revenue from the box office. Predictably, it’s also triggered a near-literal landslide of hot takes
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Dead Wild Roses: In Excelsis Deo – The West Wing
I post this video every year, and every year it manages to evoke a slightly different reaction in me. This time it was the dialogue between the President (oh to have a president like Jed Bartlet) and Toby. Bartlet: If we start pulling strings like this you don’t think every
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Transactivists Merrily Erasing Female History – Remembering Canada’s Montreal Massacre
A little dark and shameful bit of Canada’s history – (from wikipedia) “The École Polytechnique massacre, also known as the Montreal massacre, was a mass shooting at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that occurred on December 6, 1989. Twenty-five-year-old Marc Lépine, armed with a rifle and a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Way to Go Legolas
We try to replicate what we see in our society and media. We as a society need to stop portraying women in media as mere eye candy for the male-gaze. Of course, if you happen to be Legolas, the rules do not apply. 🙂 http://neuralwave.tumblr.com/post/168278775794/sleepyysalamiri-lotrlockedwhovian Filed under: Culture, Feminism Tagged:
Continue readingScripturient: Shin Godzilla: the reboot
I’m almost embarrassed to admit that, of all the Godzilla films I’ve watched, I can recall the exact details of few. I cannot remember, just by looking at the title, which monsters were battling which. I need to look at the slipcase cover to see a picture to remind me
Continue readingScripturient: War for the Planet of the Apes considered
Pierre Boulle never imagined War for the Planet of the Apes, the latest film in the remade franchise. In fact, it would be fair to say the author of the original book never imagined any of the series, from the first in 1968 to the latest, released in 2017. They
Continue readingScripturient: Gojira, the original kaiju
At the end of most Godzilla films, the audience is led to believe the giant reptile has finally been killed off. Blown up, defeated by another monster, killed by technology, sunk to the bottom of the ocean or suffered some similar fate. And yet there he*** is, hale and hearty
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Rick Salutin writes that Ontario’s provincial election shows that nobody is prepared to defend neoliberal ideas on their merits – which should provide an opening to start challenging them in practice. And Alice Ollstein examines how Donald Trump’s corporate giveaway looks like an
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Autonomous Vehicles
The dour feminist in me would like to point out that women are still struggling toward full autonomy in society after some 2000 years of ‘civilization’ ( :/ ), but the hot topic of self driving vehicles has crossed my desk and merits a comment or two with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Quote of the Day – Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn was an active and vocal opponent of the Vietnam War. He brings insight, like Noam Chomsky, to the issues that our liberal societies won’t acknowledge. The diffusion of Personal responsibility – and no, not the ‘personal responsibility’ (bootstraps!?!!!!) wielded by the corporatist right to bludgeon the poor,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Mary Lou Singleton – Sex is Biological Reality.
https://thewitchofwentworth.tumblr.com/post/129713198478/leading-midwifes-deleted-comment-displays-trans Filed under: Culture, Feminism, Gender Issues, Radical Feminism Tagged: Mary Lou Singleton, The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day
Continue readingScripturient: Guillermo, monsters and me
Tucked away at the bottom of a tall display case in the ‘At Home With Monsters’ exhibit at the AGO is a small collection of seven old, well-thumbed books, all by the 19th century French naturalist and entomologist, Jean-Henri Fabre. At the very bottom of the pile, its title almost
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Throne of Lies – The Anti Abortion Talking Points.
https://i-was-a-naive-prolifer.tumblr.com/post/114805709961/is-there-any-anti-abortion-talking-point-that Filed under: Culture, Feminism Tagged: Abortion, pro life mendacity
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Mansplaining – Watching Others Have My Problems.
I knew as soon as I saw this on my facebook feed, that a great tide was coming. The tide of ignorant entitled men who would disparage the very notion of mansplaining and try to make the conversation about them and their very important needs and problems. The great tide
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Optimistic Nihilism?
Best option out of the ones offered? Maybe. Filed under: Culture Tagged: Optimistic Nihilism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When A Voice Tells You You’ll Never Be Enough – Mattea Kramer
Welcome to the particular mental hell that many women inhabit. In an insightful article on Tom’s Dispatch by Mattea Kramer we see how the negativity toward women in society internalizes itself and become women’s own inner self-critical voice. “Girls observe and absorb such double standards, as well as
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The Vietnam War, Episodes 9 and 10
As we cross the finish line of The Vietnam War marathon, I want to offer some thoughts about the documentary as a whole. First, despite all the Vietnamese voices it includes, this is a remarkably American film. The soundtrack, for example, is loaded with dozens of familiar and well-amplified 1960s
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Understanding Life as Female…
http://femsev.tumblr.com/post/166158545323/ithelpstodream-anti-capitalistlesbianwitch Filed under: Culture, Feminism Tagged: Feminism, The Female Experience
Continue readingScripturient: Kong and his films
Kong: Skull Island is the 19th movie in my collection about apes.* Or at least ape-ish creatures (not including those about cave people or yetis). We watched the recently-released Kong: Skull Island this past weekend, even devouring all of the special features on the second disc. I give Kong: Skull Island
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Experiences of Females and Males in Society are Markedly Different
Posts like these are periodic reminder to my male readership that the way society treats you, and the way you expect to be treated isn’t the gold standard. If you happen to be a double XX’er then, mysteriously (not so mysteriously if you happen to be a radical feminist) the
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