We knew it was going to be vulgar. What we did not anticipate was that it would be ‘this’ vulgar. The opening press conference of a scheduled four city tour to sell Mayweather vs McGregor on August 26 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas kicked off at the Staples
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Quote of the Day – On Language – John Le Carré
“Clear language – lucid, rational language – to a man at war with both truth and reason, is an existential threat. Clear language to such a man is a direct assault on his obfuscations, contradictions and lies. To him, it is the voice of the enemy. To him, it is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How Gender Performativity is Victim Blaming
This quote starkly lays out exactly what is at stake when it comes to the politics of gender and those who follow its dictates. So no, feminism is not about being mean to the poor menz, it is fighting against the oppressive shit that hurts women. Focusing on how the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Untranslatable German Words
I do like the Germans and their language specific words, here is a list of some of them. 🙂 Engelsgeduld: (lit.: angel’s patience) great amount of patience Feierabend: (lit.: party-evening) the rest of the day that remains after work Fernweh: the desire/longing to travel to faraway places/ foreign countries
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: When feminism’s wonders aren’t for all women
Image distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures The new Wonder Woman film has evoked fulsome acclamations from many American and British women writers: “Wonder Woman is a masterpiece of subversive feminism,” “Wonder Woman is the feminist hero we’ve been waiting for,” “This is revolutionary,” “I cried through the fight scenes in
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Hallelujah
This was going to be a Ms-Soapbox-is-stampeding-see-you-next-week-blog…then she remembered something. Ms Soapbox’s sister and brother-in-law popped into town just in time for the Calgary Stampede. We did the fair grounds, the Dog Bowl, the Clydesdales and the llamas, we ate raindrop cake and teriyaki perogies and ducked into the casino to
Continue readingScripturient: Cultural appropriation is the new gluten free
Like food fads, political fads wax and wane as the gnat-like attention span of their followers gets diverted by the Next Big Thing. Political Correctness has of late given birth to Cultural Appropriation just like the gluten-free food fad gave rise to lectin-free food fad. All such fads are fuelled
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Peek at What Rape Culture Looks Like
Link to the article here. Hi ho blog friends. Just another quick look into our patriarchal rape culture, yes our culture, the one we inflict on the female folk. “Sam Smethers says that the minority of people who hold these views have “a drag effect on our society, [and] are
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Mostly Male Whinge of “Anti-Free Speech”
The New York Times has featured Lindy West writing on the free speech conundrum on how entitled white dudes are getting their knickers in a knot because minorities and non white dudes dare to criticize features of society that make dudes happy. See the flaming mound of poo that is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Truth Behind the Fantasy of Pornography – Shelly Lubben
None dare call it torture until the escape… –Shelly Lubben Filed under: Culture, Feminism Tagged: Pornography, Shelly Lubben, The Harms of Pornography
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Biological Determinism – What Feminism Argues
Hmm. Time to give some side eye to queer theory as it seems to go against much of what feminism is about. Let’s examine a part of an essay by Susan Cox writing on the Feminist Current. “Feminists defied patriarchal ideology by declaring that we do not have “wandering
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Watch – The Normalization of Male Violence in ‘Civilized’ Society
http://tehbewilderness.tumblr.com/post/162144889809/mypowerourpower-yayfeminism-screencaps-from Articles like this highlight the systemic, societal based normative attitudes that we are bathed in. Male violence is looked on in a sympathetic light and the narratives spun around them serve as a justification for their actions. Lying in wait with a shotgun under your family’s car and then
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Responses to Street Harassment – Informal, yet still Infuriating Poll
I know which minor superpower I’d like to have, I’d like the ability to switch minds of other people, or increase the amount of empathy others feel toward each other. So much of the problem (other than the dudely shit-stains that actually harass women) is that people just can’t relate
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The REAL Victims of Inequality
The sports term for idiocy like this is ‘own goal’. Well done dudes. Filed under: Culture Tagged: Feminism, Society, Whiny Dudes
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Whitewashing
https://grumpyoldnurse.tumblr.com/post/160319315527/butterflyinthewell-winneganfake Filed under: Culture Tagged: metaphor, Racism, whitewashing
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Acting Your Age
Here’s the thing. We live in a society that values youth over experience, wisdom, ability and knowledge. I’m not sure why we do that, but children are more valuable to us than non-children, which also translates into vilifying people who opt not to breed. There’s a whole bunch going on
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Walking Dead abandons progressive potential of horror
Image by AMC Networks Inc. The Walking Dead, the surprise hit for AMC when it premiered, has just concluded its seventh season. As a long-time horror fan, I was excited at the initial promise of TWD. A weekly national stage for a genre that has a tradition of progressive politics
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Space – Where No One Can Hear You Whinge…
But unfortunately, back here on earth the most oppressed class in Western society – white males – is trumpeting their dismay… nay! anguish! over the lack of white dudery on the upcoming CBS Star Trek Discovery series. Looks star trekkie enough for me. But of for others… One opines that,
Continue readingScripturient: As Elvis leaves the building, so do we all
No one gets out of here alive. We all die. And with us go into the dustbin the dreams, the values, the ideals, the culture we grew up with, we shared, we ensconced in our daily existence. And the clutter we accumulated during our lives. Elvis has left the building
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Actually, Let’s Not Be in the Moment – Ruth Whippman
The Neo-liberal programme is the very antithesis of class consciousness and solidarity. The hyper individual focus of neo-liberal dogma forever places the systemic problems of society out of reach, while at the same time insisting that the Pyrrhic drive to better oneself (see self recrimination and loathing) is the only
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