This much is clear: with the NDP’s federal collapse last night, the neoliberal Third Way experiment can clearly be declared a failure. But now what? Now, to build ─ not rebuild on a broken foundation. But also this: pillory me as a post-structuralist if you must, but I’m not here for
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Death By Trolley: Dude, where’s my progressivism?! Why I no longer identify as progressive.
For many years I self identified as a proud progressive. I identified as such because I believed in such things as secularism, universal healthcare, affordable education, various other social safety net programs, gay rights, gender and racial egalitarianism, I was pro-choice, etc. I didn’t always fall directly in line with
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For many years I self identified as a proud progressive. I identified as such because I believed in such things as secularism, universal healthcare, affordable education, various other social safety net programs, gay rights, gender and racial egalitarianism, I was pro-choice, etc. I didn’t always fall directly in line with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 800 Maternal Deaths a Day Is NOT Gender Neutral – Glosswitch
Go read the full post here. “Pregnant woman” is not an identity. It is a social reality. A pregnant woman’s ever-contracting rights – whether she can choose to end this pregnancy, whether she will risk imprisonment for drinking too much, whether she will lose her job, whether she will
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 800 Maternal Deaths a Day Is NOT Gender Neutral – Glosswitch
Go read the full post here. “Pregnant woman” is not an identity. It is a social reality. A pregnant woman’s ever-contracting rights – whether she can choose to end this pregnancy, whether she will risk imprisonment for drinking too much, whether she will lose her job, whether she will
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Not Understanding that Sex Based Oppression is a Thing
Well, it is picture and story time. Here is the picture – And here is the artful rejoinder provided by “blackswallowtailbutterfly” (I think, tracing tumblr sources can be tricky at times). “Was…was that it? Was that the “valid point against sex-based oppression” you wanted witwitch to see? Because, um, fail.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “Why do you want to look like a man?” – Shamelessly Unladylike Speaks Truth about Gender and Being a Woman.
The stuff you can find on tumblr these days. I applaud the trenchant analysis of gender and what being a woman (performing femininity) is like in much of western society. “Why do you want to look like a man?” I wear clothing from the men’s section of the clothing store.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Joanna Russ – Excerpt from ‘The Female Man’
It is always nice to get some quality writing about that mysterious realm of Living as Female in our society. Joanna Russ wrote this in 1975 it is chilling how much still applies. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Being Female in Society, DWR Feminist Quote of the Day, Joanna Russ
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: Progressive Shaming: Milo Yiannopoulos, the “self-hating” homosexual.
NOTE (October 12, 2015): I have written a follow-up post on this issue. In the follow up I argue that while self-hatred is probably an overly-inflammatory descriptor, in his discussions regarding homosexuality Milo is sometimes pretty much “asking” to be interpreted as having anti-homosexual inclinations. He is a complicated man
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: Progressive Shaming: Milo Yiannopoulos, the “self-hating” homosexual.
In the video below I talk about how Joe Rogan, who I often find myself agreeing with, and Kyle Kulinsky of Secular Talk accused gay conservative Milo Yiannapoulos of being a self-hating homosexual. Why? Because he indicated that he would have preferred to have been born straight. I think this
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Patrick Stewart on The Star Trek: The Next Generation
The good Captain speaks words of wisdom: “I felt that the [TNG] writers and producers could not escape from their own essential rigidity in their attitudes to women. They were continually featured as sexual objects, as softer, weaker, and therefore – it always seemed to me—second-class individuals. And because
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Historical Insights – Bicycles, Novels, Telephones and The Post Office.
A small taste of the historical basis for the shit-deal women have gotten from patriarchal society through a small sampling of history. This sort of bias lies at the very root of how our society is structured. So please dudes stop declaring that the sexes are ‘equal’ and the job
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Dworkin on Pornography
In the United States, [pornography] is an $8-billion trade in sexual exploitation. It is women turned into subhumans, beaver, pussy, body parts, genitals exposed, buttocks, breasts, mouths open and throats penetrated, covered in semen, pissed on, shitted on, hung from light fixtures, tortured, maimed, bleeding, disemboweled, killed. It is some creature
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – The Night and Danger – Andrea Dworkin
“In the United States, with its distinctly racist character, the very fear of the dark is manipulated, often subliminally, into fear of black, of black men in particular, so that the traditional association between rape and black men that is our national heritage is fortified. In this context, the imagery
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Stupid in Action – Dudely mansplinations of what Feminism is…
Only a taste gentle readers of the abundant multiloquence of pants-on-head-stupid over at “Enlightening Science” – with the ever so ironic tagline ‘with knowledge comes power’. Dammit, there went the irony meter – again. Prepare yourselves for a sagacious trip into the dark netherworlds of dudely logic and mansplination (line
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – The Gender of Sound – Anne Carson
Ah..patriarchy the gift that keeps on giving – like metastasizing cancer.. ;/ “Madness and witchery… are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public, in ancient as well as modern contexts. Consider how many female celebrities of classical mythology, literature and cult make themselves
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Mary Daly
“Male propagation of the idea that men, too, are feminine – particularly through feminine behaviour by males – distracts attention from the fact that femininity is a man-made construct, having essentially nothing to do with femaleness.” -“Gyn/Ecology” Mary Daly p.49 Filed under: Feminism Tagged: DWR Feminist Quote of the Day,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Secret Weapon Against Catcalling – The White Garbage Bag
Well let’s file this under practical and useful tips for the ladies… Of course, as you can see in the video, even dressing in a a garbage bag is no guarantee that you won’t be harassed. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Street Harassment
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Chivalry – Dee Graham
“The effect of chivalry then is to reinforce sex roles, a system geared to the creation of dominant males and submissive females. Students in our “Psychology of Women” classes have routinely argued that the act of a man opening a door for a woman has nothing to do with sexism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Locked Tight – Why You Can’t Retweet Me – By Stacey May Fowles
Wow. What brilliant article by Ms.Fowles recently published by the Walrus. I’m gonna put the whole thing up here because it sheds light on so many of the issues that face women today in the online world. Consider this example #2348239487 of how woman’s experiences in society are dramatically different
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