Hey Folks. First things first. Please go here and donate to the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, they are being defunded because of the actions of a male piece of shit transactivist that has decided that men really need to be allowed into a woman’s rape crisis centre.
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday PSA: Abortion
Inspired by a recent conversation with a antediluvian blogger.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Where Would We Be Without Mansplinations?
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Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Tactical Politics … What?
Not a week goes by without Jason Kenney saying something stupid, being called on it, and then saying something even more stupid in a failed attempt to silence his critics. This week’s clunker came in response to a question about Mr Kenney’s progress in attracting female candidates to run for
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: That’s All I Need To See – Hope for the Future
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Female Socialization is Terrible for Females
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Continue readingScripturient: Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules
I really wanted to read this book objectively, separating it from the media hype and social media torrents of opinion and abuse that often accompany its author, Jordan Peterson. I wanted to consider it in the company of the vast number of already-published self-help or philosophical books, and the historical
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Social Justice?
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Intersectionality – Helen Lewis
“Intersectionality shows us that everyone could do better; that every attempt at rolling back discrimination could work harder and be more inclusive. But it should also remind us that people themselves are more than a simple label: “white feminist”; “middle-class man”; “posh boy”; “Twitter bully”. Here are some of the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Meghan Murphy – It is not illegal…
Megan Murphy last night at the Vancouver Public Library: “Despite what transactivists claim it is not illegal to understand that biological sex is real and that it matters which is essentially what I and other women have been smeared, censored and no-platformed for saying . It’s also not illegal to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Meghan Murphy’s At The Vancouver Public Library – On Gender Ideology and Transactivsm
Feminism has a voice in Canada. Meghan Murphy continues the struggle against male power and for the rights of women. This event almost didn’t happen thanks to the ‘progessive, inclusive’ left. Thank you for persevering Ms.Murphy. Canadian feminism at its finest. Made the news as well.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Free Speech Award Goes to Meghan Murphy – Congratulations!
See the other award winners at the Quillette.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Challenge of the Left – Looking Good vs. Being Effective
Written by Dr. Caroline Norma her piece is about running up against the male centric Left in Australia. Inside her essay though are a couple of paragraphs that deserve extra attention. The notion that appearance and allegiance to the right things is taking precedence over effective action is an important
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading: hunger by roxane gay
During the Ontario provincial election, after a hack from the Toronto Sun drew attention to an unpopular view that I had expressed some years earlier, I was the object of right-wing attacks by email and on social media. Many of these wingnuts referenced my weight in various disgusting ways. This shocked
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: I Read the Quillette – Tanya’s Comment
Tanya’s Comment on Twitter’s Trans-Activist Decree on the Quillette I’m following the Meghan Murphy Twitter-ban debacle and one of the places where I landed was the Quillette. As it turns out, Megan Murphy has written a piece describing what happened to her and her struggle with the totalitarian ideology
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Meghan Murphy on Youtube – Go Show Some Support
Meghan Murphy is living proof of the cost of going against patriarchal ideals. Her road is challenging and we can make it a bit easier by subscribing to her youtube channel, or better yet supporting her on Patreon.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Twitter – Silencing Women, but Not Pedophiles
Good to see that Twitter has its shit in order… (aka the War on Women Continues) https://blackswallowtailbutterfly.tumblr.com/post/180961945287/deargodwhatevenisthis-trans-misogyny-a
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Fighting for Midwives: The Personal is Political
Peter Beinart recently wrote a perceptive article in The Atlantic: “The New Authoritarians are Waging War on Women,” that argues that the one thing in common with all the authoritarian-type regimes sprouting everywhere, is keeping women in place: “The problem with both American-born story lines [that Trump was voted by
Continue readingwmtc: this week, give 15 minutes of your time to defend human rights #write4rights
Are you writing for rights? I almost gave myself a pass this year. I’m living out of a hotel room and I don’t have easy access to a printer, and… what the hell? I’m one of the most privileged people on the planet. Surely I won’t skip Write For Rights
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