I have no interest in playing the new Mad Max game, Jim Sterling summarizes the hollow shell that is this game: “Mad Max feels like the embodiment of everything Ubisoft has been building with its own dire stable of open world games – a pure saturation of nebulous “content” that offers
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Dead Wild Roses: The Religious Liberty Post-Script We Are Not Talking About.
An interesting lesson in patriarchy. Men can be gay and want to get married. Men can’t get pregnant. [Source:Radicalfeministuprising] Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, How is this still a thing?, Patriarchy, Religious Liberty
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: We swim in patriarchal soup
Snapped at a red light on the way home last week This ad only makes sense in the presence of the following cultural subtext: Women’s anger is not valid in the same way that full adult humans’ (i.e. men’s) anger is valid. You don’t need to get to the root
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How Not to Write about Feminists and Patriarchy – (Un)Reasonable Faith
Autumn approaches; the obnoxious university ‘Week of Welcome’ orientation drones are yelling insipid, yet inclusive, chants at each other; and of course, more stupid post mostly made of straw languidly emerge from the turbid depths of the wordpress “patriarchy” tag. Like appreciating the subtle fireworks of the turning of the
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Ashley Madison Is Not Nearly So Black and White
The Ashley Madison hack is bad news for cheaters—and just as terrible for everyone else – By Harris O’Malley It’s like the royal family: glamorize them so we can bash them down to earth. A bit of a mindfuck. If Ashley Madison were a straight infidelity website among heterosexual couples
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Because words matter: Differences Between Sex and Gender
Every once and awhile something good bubbles up from the seething mass known as tumblr. This is a good summary of what sex and gender are and how they interact in our society. “It seems like on here at tumblr there’s a lot of misinformation going around. people
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Noam Chomsky – On Pornography
“(Asked about his stance on pornography, in response to perceived endorsement of Hustler, who had tricked Chomsky into giving an interview for the magazine.) Pornography is humiliation and degradation of women. It’s a disgraceful activity. I don’t want to be associated with it. Just take a look at the pictures.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day Gerda Lerner – The Creation of Patriarchy
The Creation of Patriarchy, Volume 1 (1986/ 1987) by Gerda Lerner Filed under: Feminism Tagged: DWR Feminist Quote of the Day, Feminism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Excerpt from “We Do Abortions Here” – Sallie Tisdale
This quote is from the Harper’s Magazine archive. We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Story, is a powerful piece that goes beyond the well worn positions that are still being dragged about today. I recommend a full reading, go to Harper’s Archive to read it. “Women have abortions because they
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Amanda M. Gengler – On Consuming Femininity
“Advertisers must convince young women that they are in need of constant improvement—largely to get and keep boys’ attention—without threatening young women’s views of themselves as intelligent, self-directed, and equal. Buzz words like “empowerment,” “self-determination,” and “independence” are sprinkled liberally across their pages. But this seemingly progressive rhetoric is used
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Emotional Labour – Invisible to Men
A nice peek into the relationship caretaker roles that women often find themselves in. This from Brute Reason: “Emotional labor is often invisible to men because a lot of it happens out of their sight. Emotional labor is when my friends and I carefully coordinate to make
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: JRfm Promotes Rape Culture, Sigh
Is it only sexual assault if he rapes her? A male person didn’t run up to CBC-tv’s Megan Batchelor on air in Squamish and shout, “Fuck Her Right in the Pussy.” Maybe he knows people can get fired for that. Instead he was maybe trying to be “nice” by trying
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – The Case for the Religious ‘Pro-Life’ Enslavement of Women
Religion treats people like shit, the further away you are from the white male ideal, the shittier your deal will be. The recent anti-choice propaganda wave in the US caused enough whinging in wordpress blogosphere that I felt compelled to wrestle with the full-blown stupid that is the anti-choice
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On So Much Anger
Anger may be defined as an impulse, accompanied by pain, to a conspicuous revenge for a conspicuous slight directed without justification towards what concerns oneself or towards what concerns one’s friends. If this is a proper definition of anger, it must always be felt towards some particular individual, e.g. Cleon,
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: 11 Weeks of Daily Harper Protests
The Harper Re-election Disaster Bus Totalitarianism: daily, for 11 weeks! Get used to this. People hate Harper and his Conservatives. We will see through his weak attempt to wedge oppositions parties by running a long election campaign because he has more money to spend. Saturation will come fast. We will
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Marriage and Divorce and Trolls and Haters
I moderate my comments because I once got 67 comments about carpet cleaning on one post. I rarely get comments at all, so I hate to block any I do get, but an anonymous writer sent in a comment on my recent post on Krakauer’s latest book. The comment had
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Rape on Campus
Since I saw Into the Wild and started reading Krakauer, I haven’t stopped. But this last one took a while to open. It’s about rape on college campuses, specifically in one football-lovin’ town: Missoula. The book is readable only because the rape scenes are reported factually and “reporter-ly” without any
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Supporting Bare Boobs
It’s not about this: the Braza Bra It’s about arguing in favour of a woman’s right to take off her shirt. How stupid, right? I mean, it’s stupid that we have to argue about this and try to make it clear to everyone why it should be acceptable and actually
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rachel Moran on “Empowering” Prostitution
“…But I do feel a special place of contempt for the absolute army of twenty-something, socially privileged, very well educated, young white women, who speak about prostitution in terms of “sex work” and “empowerment” and this utter nonsense when they have spent years educating themselves… in order to keep themselves
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Video Gaming: Misogynistic Harassment is the Wheelhouse of Losers.
Women in video games, destroying men’s lives everywhere!!! Spending your time harassing people just doesn’t seem like productive or pro-social behavioural choices. According to a study recently undertaken it seems there is a positive correlation between unskilled players and the amount of abuse they heap on other players, especially females.
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