One of my goals here at DWR is to provide a resource that can help when the arguments start flying and you need a little argumentative boost to counter the tomfoolery going on with the other side. Dr. Jane Clare Jones intellectual rigor and acumen will almost never steer you
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Dead Wild Roses: Dr. Jane Clare Jones on Violence Against Women
On International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women I think its important to affirm that:- Women are oppressed as a sex class. The oppression of women as a sex class exists in order to enable male access to women’s bodies as a reproductive and sexual resource,and the appropriation
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Predators and Safe Spaces – Eva Comrie
Male violence (and the threat of male violence) still shapes women’s lives here in 21st century. We have not advanced past the stage of needing female only spaces and strong rules regarding the safeguarding of women and children from predatory men. The transgender idea of self – identification inserts a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Moral Panics – More ways to censure Women.
Funny how that works…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Lift Women – Australia’s first women-focused go-to funding marketplace
Needs be that Women have the funding apparatus available to them that cannot be corrupted by the influence of males under the spell of the current gender-magic ideology. Thus Lift Women is a thing. Go check it out.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Erosion of Female Boundaries – What Transgender Ideology Is.
Something went wrong between the 2nd and 3rd wave of female political action. The class based analysis so firmly rooted in the second wave seemed to have been gradually pushed to the margins and replaced with a the conception of intersectionality that in its initial phase could have gone
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Transgender Ideology Obscures & Enables Male Violence – CTV (Newspeak) News
This from a major Canadian ‘news’ website. Forget about ‘just wanting to pee’ wedge issue bullshit – this is what we are in for in Canadian society; this is the upside-down nothing has any meaning timeline that trans ideology has in store for us. Do not believe your eyes, but
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Faux Progressive Language Obscures Reality – Or, How to be Progressively Anti-Female
In the frenzied rush to sound and be ‘on the right side of history’ people are throwing away all the knowledge and experience that has been gleaned about our society and human behaviour to appeal to some sort of mystical standard of ‘equality’. What else could make a supposedly
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Kicking Women Out – The New Inclusion in the Olympics – Kuinini Manumua
“Inclusion” is the new best and brightest way to hide your fundamental hatred of women. Gender ideology is a toxic mess of male supremacy and misogyny wrapped up in friendly pink and blue colours. The erasure of females from society has always been the endgame and the Olympic Weightlifting debacle
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Trans “Equality” Endangers Female Prisoners – Male Inmates in Women’s Prison by Abigail Shrier
The rights of females are being trampled in California as women’s boundaries and safety are being ignored in favour of male gender fantasy. “Crazy California laws occasionally go national. Take SB 132, which took effect in January. It allows transgender-identified male state prison inmates to transfer into women’s prisons
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Buuuuuurn the Witch! – The Gender Religious Versus Callie Burt
Speaking your mind can be a dangerous activity. In the halls of academia though, it is purportedly the name of the game. Please go and read Dr.Bert’s full post and enjoy her eloquence and clarity of thought in full. I thought I would highlight some of the points that should
Continue readingwmtc: the concept of intersectionality: what it is, what it’s not, why we need it
Women Friendly Cities Challenge After the recent, horrific murders in Atlanta of eight people, six of whom were Asian or Asian-American spa workers, there was a lot of discussion online about the nature of these killings. Were they acts of anti-Asian hatred? Were they acts of misogyny? Were they motivated
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Kenney vs Freeland: National Child Care
“…this is going to be the most powerful step change in the Canadian economy since we did the NAFTA deal. It will really drive our economic productivity, our growth.” – Chrystia Freeland describing the Feds $10/day child care plan.* You’d think Jason Kenney, the premier who says the economy is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dr. Jane Clare Jones on Patriarchy 101 – A Refresher
Definitional clarity is key in understanding the conflict between women’s rights and gender ideology. Dr. Jones, as usual, brings clarity to the matter at hand.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Left or Right? – The Common denominator is Misogyny
The political interests of women are often overlooked by both the right and the left. The bullshit that goes on because we cannot advance the idea that females are a distinct class of individuals in society who exist solely for themselves. Not in relationship to the family, not in relationship
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Steven Lewis writes that the Saskatchewan Party’s mealy-mouthed messaging around the coronavirus looks to be a calculated political choice which is having devastating public health consequences: There has been a pattern in Saskatchewan’s communication about COVID-19 throughout the pandemic. The language is
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NEW RELEASE: Remembering the Armed Struggle: My Time with the Red Army Faction
Available for pre-order. Shipping in late March. Margrit Schiller was an early member of the Red Army Faction, the West German urban guerrilla group. In 1971 she was captured and charged with a murder she did not commit, and upon her release she returned to the underground, being captured again
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: THE COSTS OF CARING AND THE ERASURE OF ITS EXISTENCE
Last week I happened to read a fascinating article by Jordan Kisner in the New York Times Magazine about 78 year old feminist and scholar, Silvia Federici. I kept thinking about what Federici said about domestic work and caregiving being a form of gendered economic oppression – “an exploitation upon which
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