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Dead Wild Roses: Escaping the Male Gaze – A Process
For those who don’t get the male gaze, another similar concept is the Panopticon and the theory that goes behind it. See also the Observer Effect study by Hawthorne (1950). https://iloveradfems.tumblr.com/post/175923807827/i-dont-know-how-to-escape-the-male-gaze-because
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: It’s Hard to Be A Man During the Age of #MeToo…
The struggle for human treatment continues. The problem – Men – who are content with the rape culture status quo have serious worries about moving away from said status quo. Heartbreaking… http://samuel-vimes.tumblr.com/post/175897683050/weheartfandom-yikes
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When You Can’t Exist in Your Natural State
More of the female experience of living life in our society. Sounds like fun, no? https://rosalesbeausderholle.tumblr.com/post/174271321821/theres-something-very-very-depressing-about-how
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Prostitution – Rachel Moran
Rachel Moran explains with near perfection how prostitution is not good for women and is a societal harm that should be fought against. http://vuvaliniterf.tumblr.com/post/175650874283/prostitution-clearly-promotes-the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Feeling like a Woman – Amy Eileen Hamm
Women don’t come of age, so to speak. But rather have societies stereotypes and prejudices thrust upon them. Amy Eileen Hamm speaks to her experience on growing up in a patriarchal society. “Men have asked me to do things, forced me to do things, threatened or done things to me.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: We Can’t Get Out of The Bedroom Now.
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Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: First Time for Everything
I wonder what would have happened to Sleeping Beauty had she slept for, oh, say 20, 30 years or so, but continued to age. I’m thinking Shrek, but with the change preempting the story instead of driving it. And what if she was not only wizened with time (like a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Female Empowerment
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Continue readingwmtc: congratulations to the people of ireland! #repealedthe8th
While this blog was offline, an amazing and incredibly important thing happened: the people of the Republic of Ireland affirmed the human right to control our own bodies. In a referendum to “Repeal the 8th” — so-called for the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which gave equal legal
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Male Entitlement and Creepitude in Action
This is normalized behaviour in our society. My dudes, this is never okay. If you happen to see this, know that it is wrong and take action to stop it. https://girl-unashamed.tumblr.com/post/174974717059/armitageadoration-maaarine-mariliasavvides
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Effect of Being Watched – Double Plus Bad for Women
Oh the joyous female experience in society… https://iloveradfems.tumblr.com/post/174753693627/franeur-gaykarathrace-thebeeskidneys
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Training Femininity – Classical, Operant, and Physical Conditioning
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Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Ontario Elects Doug Ford; Alberta Unleashes the Valkyries
Valkyrie: from Norse mythology, meaning “chooser of the slain”; female figures who choose who will die in battle and who will live. Ms Soapbox has a message for all the politicians who “know” what their female constituents need but can’t be bothered to ask them; who condescendingly brush aside
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How Female Representation Works in Media – HTTYD3
Patriarchy is the air we breathe, the taxes we pay, the norms we consciously and unconsciously follow. This post is long, but details exactly what the female representation of a dragon *should* be like. Not the patriarchally approved one that has appeared on the poster. http://irrevocably-delicious.tumblr.com/post/174466599863/hey-whats-up-that-httyd-3-poster-got-me-fucked
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Patriarchal reversals.
Dear God why do women sign up to a left that demands contorted avowals of submission like this: “transwomen are no threat to women, also when a transwoman punched you and you went to the police, you were the violent one” Sarah Ditum on twitter Here’s a link to an
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