Nothing says revolutionary like the return to the status quo. The #Metoo phenomenon is merely the beginning ( a very fine one mind you) but to change the foundations of society it cannot be allowed to slip out of the popular consciousness. Or else…
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Dead Wild Roses: To Change the Game is to Change the Rules – Sexual Harassment on the Job
To effect systemic change, one must alter the underlying structure of a situation. Systemic changes are the ones that last because they create a new status quo. This article is a prime example, on a small scale, of what happens when we take seriously the input from all members of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Reclaiming Naming – Another Necessary Feminist Project
Patriarchy is the very air we are forced to breathe. Dismantling this heinous construction takes time patience and dedication across a wide front. https://girl-unashamed.tumblr.com/post/173378396729/old-school-butch-parttimepup-so-i-was-back
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rachel Moran on ‘Choice Feminism’
Ah, the freedom of choice… https://blackswallowtailbutterfly.tumblr.com/post/173588985512/antiplondon-the-concept-of-choice-is-rooted-in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Women Have Every Right to Discuss Changes to the Law that Affect them.
These brave women are standing up to the egregious male harassment and entitlement that goes hand in hand with transactvism (MRA activism). Read one organizer’s story and really ask yourself if cheerleading for this part of the regressive left is the correct choice when it comes to promoting full human
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Handmaids For Kenney Attend The UCP Policy Convention
This would be funny in the ironic ha-ha sense if it wasn’t so damned serious. While the rest of us were watching UCP members debate policy resolutions in a conference hall in Red Deer, Handmaids for Kenney stood silently outside the convention hall and quickly discovered just how unprincipled and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sisterhood – Protection, Solidarity, and Survival
We all need a good circle of friends to be healthy in society. For women, it goes so much further. Living within a patriarchy, watching out for each other is a necessity. https://blackswallowtailbutterfly.tumblr.com/post/173398192207/inkskinned-a-secret-code-between-women-are-you
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: It is 2018 and Men Still Hate Women – A Showcase of Male Terrorism in Toronto
Did you want to see the effects of toxic masculinity? Most women do, but men don’t. The reason for this glaring difference cuts to the quick of issue. Most men would want to see the evidence behind the claim – the statistics, the causal connections, et cetera. Seems reasonable right?
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – A hand up…
https://unapolpgeticalfeminist.tumblr.com/post/172855129649/feminism-has-forced-me-to-acknowledge-painful
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Where Is The Walk?
Justin Trudeau’s increasing propensity for talking the talk but not walking the walk has been noticed by the anti-poverty organization One Campaign, led by Trudeau’s good ‘friend,’ U2’s Bono, in a rather unflattering video: Stuart Hickox, One’s Canada director, said the decision to “poke” Trudeau wasn’t taken lightly. But One
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape Culture and the Men that Perpetuate it.
Social media strips away some of the filters we have, sometimes allowing one’s learned attitudes and dispositions to show through. Women name the problem and men consciously or unconsciously defend the patriarchal status quo. Ironically the male defenders in this piece threaten the woman with rape for act of bringing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – When Difference means Dominance – Catharine A. MacKinnon
-Catharine A. MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Girlhood.
http://dont-eat-the-apple.tumblr.com/post/172021001671/why-is-girlhood-as-an-experience-such-an-object
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: White Feminism?
The pull quote – “Stop pretending like white women’s whiteness somehow erases the sexism they face.”
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hadley Freeman Goes To Town in the Guardian – Woo Raa!
Soooooooo nice to see actual feminist opinion in print. Congratulations to Hadley Freeman for boldly speaking against the current misogynistic assault on women. The trans-cult (see Patriarchy 2.0) has made sizable in-roads into feminism and at the core of its demands, centring the male experience in a female movement, has
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When Tolerance Serves the Status Quo – Keeping Females Silent and Complicit in their Oppression
The status quo is a nasty piece of work. It has a multiplicity of tools and avenues of attack and repression available to keep the current equilibrium and quell dissenting voices that threaten the norm. Tolerance, is considered to be a ‘good’ liberal value. Yet, in context of female struggle
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Who is Jordan Peterson and Why Should I Care?
I’ve heard the name. He’s some professor from Toronto. But apparently he’s a big deal, enough so that Foreign Policy thinks he’s some sort of latter day Pied Piper luring young men into the embrace of authoritarianism. The psychologist’s mass appeal hinges on his ability to speak to what one might
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Your (RPOJ) WTF of the Day: Abortion Rights and Trans Rights are the Same Struggle
The piece is jam-packed with stupid, so we’ll just hit the highlights here and dissect the inanity RPOJ style. 🙂 “Let’s get the most obvious out of the way first: TERFs are about as feminist as Jim Davidson. They’re also very comfortable with forming political alliances with conservative men, and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: BDSM or, Rape Culture in a catchy Acronym.
Wow, I found this piece languishing in my my drafts section. A critical analysis of how BDSM and rape culture intersect and how unsurprisingly it is a bad deal for women and good one for men. “BDSM is NOTHING to do with rape culture though? It’s completely and utterly
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