Susan Brownmiller has a remarkable talent for framing slippery sociological concepts. This quote is from the introduction to her book “Femininity” and it lucidly describes the nature of the viscous catch-22 women experience for the crime of being born female. “Femininity always demands more. It must constantly reassures its
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Dead Wild Roses: Edmonton School Board Boots Christian Misogynists and their Abstinence Only Platform
Because Magic, taught as fact, in the curriculum is AWESOME! Further breaking news: The Edmonton Public School Board will also remove Soylent Green Recipe Book from the Foods curriculum. How does feculence like this happen in my school system? “An Edmonton teen and her mother have filed a complaint with the Human
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Who Owns the Bodies of Women?
A little push-back at the more toxic prescriptions of our society. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Female Autonomy, Feminism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: England Loses in World Cup – So Do English Women
[Police fear rise in domestic violence during World Cup] Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: DWR PSA, England, Violence against Women, World Cup
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Occupy Movement Has Changed the Narrative, But We’re Not Done
Recently, with the WEF spending the last few years acknowledging global income inequality is a problem, I’ve declared a kind of victory for the Occupy Movement: getting the lexicon on the 1% and inequality on the tongues of the sly gazillionaires who rule the world, and into mass consumption. Now
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Friend Zone!
Ah, friendly readers, behold the surreal world of MRA ‘reality’ compared to what, in fact, is reality. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Helpful Hints, MRA Stupidity
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Friend Zone!
Ah, friendly readers, behold the surreal world of MRA ‘reality’ compared to what, in fact, is reality. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Helpful Hints, MRA Stupidity
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: RPOJ – Neil Macdonald Fails at Understanding what Rape Culture is.
Today’s Red Pen of Justice edition is brought to you by the clueless parvanimity of Neil Macdonald. Mr. Macdonald has many important opinions on Rape Culture and, shockingly enough, they are completely out-to-fucking-lunch-brain-gone-fishing, wrong. “For people my age, the freedom to get drunk or high and then have sex with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: More On Patriarchy – Creating the Victim Class
Nice of Deep Green Resistance to illustrate what Patriarchy is for women. “Female socialization in patriarchy is a process of psychologically constraining and breaking girls—otherwise known as “grooming”—to create a class of compliant victims. Femininity is a set of behaviors that are, in essence, ritualized submission. We see nothing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: More On Patriarchy – Creating the Victim Class
Nice of Deep Green Resistance to illustrate what Patriarchy is for women. “Female socialization in patriarchy is a process of psychologically constraining and breaking girls—otherwise known as “grooming”—to create a class of compliant victims. Femininity is a set of behaviors that are, in essence, ritualized submission. We see nothing
Continue readingArt Threat: Montreal Fringe: Ginger Slurs & Slut Shaming
Project Gingervitis Project Gingervitis is a smart, funny take on discrimination, eugenics, geopolitics, and media manipulation. A one-man show written and brilliantly performed by Jordan Lloyd Watkins and set in a dystopian future, the show tells the story of a lone redhead born years after redheads were thought to have
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Dear Meghan Murphy, I respectfully disagree with your assessment of Ricochet and Bill C-36
Dear Meghan Murphy, I understand your concerns about the Editorial Collective- let me assure you that there have been discussions from the start of Ricochet to be representative of equity-politics […]
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Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Comix of the Day, Equality, Feminism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Equality Doorway…
Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Comix of the Day, Equality, Feminism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Storytime – The Joys of ‘Choice’ Feminism
Warning – Crusty Second Wave Analysis ahead :> OK, let’s say your plane crashes on a desert island, where a mysterious group of Others brings you to a temple. They give you two options: One, you can stay with them and have all your needs met, as long as
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Storytime – The Joys of ‘Choice’ Feminism
Warning – Crusty Second Wave Analysis ahead :> OK, let’s say your plane crashes on a desert island, where a mysterious group of Others brings you to a temple. They give you two options: One, you can stay with them and have all your needs met, as long as
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Sexual Revolution – Bell Hooks
Damn women getting all uppity and full of agency, the nerve… “Men celebrated our sexual liberation — our willingness to freely give and enjoy blow jobs and group sex, our willingness to experiment with anal penetration — but ultimately many males revolted when we stated that our bodies were territories
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Sexual Revolution – Bell Hooks
Damn women getting all uppity and full of agency, the nerve… “Men celebrated our sexual liberation — our willingness to freely give and enjoy blow jobs and group sex, our willingness to experiment with anal penetration — but ultimately many males revolted when we stated that our bodies were territories
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Misogyny isn’t like a Cold, or something you catch – Gail Dines
Well, another antidote to the ferocious level of managed-shortsightedness by the media on the Santa Barbara mass murders. “I have been a radical feminist for as long as I can remember. As I witness the marginalisation of radical feminism in the cultural discourse, in publishing, and in women’s studies programs,
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Slut Shaming, And Other Idiocy
Welcome to the cusp of spring-summer. Now that the weather is turning, the slut shaming and attacks on women’s clothing choices will ramp up. In Labrador, 28 girls were sent home from school because their clothing contravened the dress code. They also sent home two boys whose shirts bared their
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