So, it turns out that if you and some of your single girl friends lament the lack of quality men in Vancouver, you may get attacked by anonymous men and women in the comments section of the Georgia Straight. Go figure. Whether that is “true” or not, people sure like
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Dead Wild Roses: The Sum of Male Abortion Activism
Filed under: Feminism, Politics Tagged: Abortion, Dudes, Feminism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Catherine Mackinnon on Structural Oppression of Women
It is nice when basic concepts are illustrated so succinctly. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Catherine Mackinnon, Feminism, Oppression
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Sex Ed Redux
The papers are full of stories about the fight for and against new sex education legislation. Wynne seems to be holding her ground this time, though, so I’m not sure any of the debating will come to anything. But it’s raised some interesting questions and ideas, and provoked a long
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Objectification of Women – Just not a Thing. – Oh Wait, it totally is.
Baby high heels. It is an actual phenomena. Hard to have words for this one other than choked rage sputtering sounds. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Blaaaarg!, Female Objectification, Feminism, Sexualization of Infants
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: How Do YOU Fight for Workplace Justice?
How do YOU define determination? One of them gave birth the day before the vote. As soon as her baby was nursing properly and her bloodwork came back okay, she made the trip to the hotel to vote. via Inside a union drive at The Trump Hotel | Toronto Star.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Black Mom’s Tell White Mom’s About “The Race Talk”.
Women will bring peace to the world (if men don’t destroy it first) and they shall do it through understanding and listening to each other. Listen to the power of their words. “Ten black mothers sat on the stage in an auditorium and looked into a diverse crowd of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Cows! Milk! Rape! RPOJ! – Christian “Morality” On Display
Usually we get to watch loopy christians say loopy stuff in support of their sincere belief in magic here on the the Disservice. Not so much fun today as we are going to look at how belief in magic can warp the moral fibre of people into condoning rape and
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Budweiser Stops Pandering to Rapists?
Budweiser, the perfect beer for rapists: Being up for whatever happens [even with its own hashtag: #UpForWhatever] + an evening environment that doesn’t include no in its vocabulary + all within our still vibrant rape culture = a recipe for Budweiser to demonstrate how pathetic they are at understanding how
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – Andrea Dworkin on Pornography
Let’s not have the porn = ‘freedom of speech’ argument this one time okay? I live in a country where if you film any act of humiliation or torture, and if the victim is a woman, the film is both entertainment and it is protected speech. Now that tells me
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: FHRITP! – Stay Classy Calgary Flames Fans – Example #2387461278 of #NotAllMen..
I’m curious as to how many times we need to see incidents like this. Misogyny via the expression of normative patriarchal values at it very finest in dear old Cowtown. Go take a look at the clip from CBC Calgary with reporter Meghan Grant. “FHRITP — or f–k her right in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Three Cheers for the Calgary Expo – Angry Man Babies Explode in Rage!
All of the following has been cribbed from David Futrelle’s We Hunted the Mammoth – Thank you David for doing the heavy lifting on this one. “The Honey Badgers — a mostly female A Voice for Men spinoff group known for its unlistenable internet “radio” shows — was sent packing after conventioneers
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: If Reporting a Robbery was like Reporting a Rape…
🙁 Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Gifsets I find on Tumblr, Rape, The Law
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Don’t Worry Dudes it’s is Just Anecdata – Move along, Move along.
Now that we’ve dispensed with that missive and hopefully all of the egalitarian fun fem types, we can be begin proper on the little ways of that being human and female are different in society. My faithful readership thoughtfully intones,”But why Arb, you’ve posted stuff like this before… we get
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: All About Love: bell hooks.
Just started reading Hooks’ treatise on Love. Only twenty two pages but already word-gold is present: One of the most important social myths we must debunk if we are to become a more loving culture is the one that teaches parents that abuse and neglect can coexist with love.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Anita Sarkeesian: ‘How to be a feminist’ – The Fallacy of Choice Feminsm
Boom. Hi there my empowerful third wave friends. Let’s grab our learning hats and listen to Anita describing what, to my ears, sounds a lot like crusty old second wave feminism. You know, the variety that gets shit done. Let’s not forget that gamer men are still assholes. Filed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR Feminist Quotes of the Day – Andrea Dworkin & Charnie Guttell
Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships. “Women, under separate masters, are the most divided of oppressed groups. And men prefer a willing slave to a forced slave, hence
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Forced Birthers On the University of Alberta Campus
Well it had to happen sooner or later, the viciously anti-woman contingent of local forced birth brigade came to campus with their misleading fetus porn and all the lovely related argument for women to be incubators first and people second. Thankfully the feminist and queer communities counter demonstrated to help
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: How You May Be Able to Be a Better Feminist
I don’t need to add anything here. If you like/hate what you read, click the link and get up to speed on the rest of it! White feminists: this is a call for you to get your shit together. The point of equality isn’t to claw your way to the
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Being a Better Ally: #IWD
Click me; it’s good for you! International Women’s Day is a check-in point for me: I try to take stock of what has improved or worsened since last year. Doing so helps me be a better ally. Our soul as a nation has suffered this past year. It has suffered
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