Fearless amateur sociologist Sam Pepper conducts ground breaking social experiments such as this one. Yah… he really did that and continues to do creepy things to women objectifying and violating their personal boundaries because in our society in 2014 – the boundaries of women don’t matter. This individual is showing
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Dead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – My Least Favorite Movie Trope
Many thanks to Elizabeth Bear for today’s comment on our culture. “My Least Favorite Trope (and this post will include spoilers for The Lego Movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Matrix, Western Civilization, and—cod help me—Bulletproof Monk*.) is the thing where there’s an awesome, smart, wonderful, powerful female character who by all rights
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sex Positive Feminism is Doing The Patriarchy’s Work for it.
From an article by Glosswitch published on the New Statesman. “The underlying thought behind sex-positive feminism is conservative and unimaginative, fearing a sexless void should patriarchy ever vacate the space it currently fills. And yet the truth is, those who question objectification aren’t afraid of fucking. They are not the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Friendzone Make-up Tutorial
Full marks for making fun of phony social constructs. 🙂 Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Friend Zone, Make up Tutorial
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Rapist Checklist – Courtesy of the Biting Beaver Archives
A post that deserves to be amplified. Thank you BB for your words and your insight. “However, you all would be amazed if you saw the sheer number of men who get ragingly pissed off by this post. For that reason alone I thought that it was worth reposting
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Difficulty of Asserting Boundaries
The lived experiences of women are fundamentally different than men. Go to This Ain’t Livin’ blog for the full post. “This is the society we live in: it’s difficult for women and people socialised as women to assert their boundaries because they were trained to have no boundaries, and consequently,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Trying to Be the Debby Downer – Social Contexts of Gamer Rape Culture
This is a post based on a personal experience. The general topic of the sexist nature of video game culture can be found here. As of late, I’ve been on a bit of League of Legends binge; a fact the Intransignet One can well attest. The problem with League
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Casts Jundiced Eye toward Kia’s Dancing Hamsters
Let it be said up front that this cranky second waver bears no animus with regards to hamsters, electric vehicles, or dancing. Yet, once these elements are mixed into the toxic soup of everyone’s favourite capitalistic patriarchal construct – better known as ‘our society’ – hilarity is bound to ensue.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Women as Background Decoration, part 2. – Anita Sarkeesian
Patriarchy pissing in the punchbowl for hundreds of years continues to make things crappy, even in the land of video games. Filed under: Feminism, Gaming Tagged: Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency, Patriarchy, Women as Background Decoration
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What Men Are Really Saying – Sidewalk Harassment.
I suggest stop being like these guys and try a new fanciful tact – treating women with the respect and the dignity that you as a dude get by default. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Harassment, Male Privilege
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: No Skin Thick Enough – Harassment in the Gaming Industry
Seems like we have a bit of feminist theme going on here this week – quelle suprise! Harassment and how women and men are taught to exist in society. If we can edumacate a few dudes about the toxic patriarchal soup we all swim in the world will be
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Street Harassment – Because the Lived Experience of Being Female in Public is Different
Part of the reason why feminist analysis is such a valuable tool is that FA deconstructs and identifies the constructed norms of society and rightly points out how craptacular said norms are for women. So, dudes, a glimpse into the faux-egalitarian society you’ve created and learn the implied lesson of
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: When Shaming Survivors is Not Enough: Police-State Motives Behind Sexual Assault Transit Ads
Photo credit Instagram: @the_noush. Permission to use granted. By Emily Griffiths The Transit Police got burned in the media recently, when rad feminist transit riders called them out publicly for their summer-line of sexual assault ads. These ads use language that shames the survivors of sexual assault, stating, “the real
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: All Hail the Mugs of Heteronormativity!
Talk about unintended veracity. Fascinating don’t you think? Consider the neat way this dovetails into how relationships in our society are structured and the expectations placed upon those who are male and those who are female. Pro-tip: The deformed cup or one that isn’t complete without the other is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Pity the poor man-feelings
Anti-rape education is making poor frat-boys’ penises sad, according to this article at Bloomberg. …making out with a girl at a party. Things were going fine, the student said, when suddenly a vision of his school’s disciplinary board flew into his head. “‘I want to go to law school or
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Are You a Pusher?
A pox on you Game of Thrones for pushing my summer reading to the margins. Just look at the great stuff that has been gathering dust in my book-pile. This is an excerpt from Susan Brownmiller’s work titled “Femininity”. “Nancy Henley, psychologist and author of Body Politics, has written, “In
Continue readingwmtc: the courage and compassion of dr. willie parker, the last abortion doctor in mississippi
“The Pink House”, the last abortion clinic in Mississippi.The owner painted it pink so it would stand out, in defiance. I’ve thought a lot about heroes, that tremendously overused word, about who my heroes are and why I love them. Moral courage, as you may know, is my highest value.
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: An Open Letter To Margaret Wente
Dear Ms. Wente, I thought that as a journalist you were supposed to do some research before you go writing stories. In the case of your August 2, 2014 column in The Globe and Mail, it is painfully obvious that you haven't even bothered to try. As a child, Lindsay
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: World Wide Use of Contraceptives – Guttmacher Institute
A trouble situation for women around the world. No thanks to religion. 😛 Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Contraception, Infographics, Women
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On That List of Excuses for Not Having Sex Floating Around the Interweb
I wanted to chime in on a facebook discussion about that list (a man made a spreadsheet of his wife’s excuses for refusing sex), but it wasn’t started by an official FB friend, so I couldn’t comment on it. I’m not sure the etiquette on this, so I’ll just keep everyone
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