Big fan of Ms.Fine. 🙂 “My risk of an unwanted pregnancy and being denied an abortion is not a random fact about me. It’s a fundamental part of what it means to be born female, shoved into the class “woman” and hence devalued as an autonomous human being. It will remain so even when […]
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Dead Wild Roses: Things to Ruin Your Day – Forced Sterilization of the Roma
When the government really isn’t on your side… Excerpts taken from here. “Between 1971 and 1991 in Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic and Slovakia, the “reduction of the Roma population” through surgical sterilization, performed without the knowledge of the women themselves, was a widespread governmental practice. The sterilization would be performed on Romani women without their […]
Dead Wild Roses: Beauty and Misogyny: Shelia Jeffreys on Make Up
Hmm. Different expectations for women and men? How odd.
Funny how women are expected to differentiate themselves from the the societal norm (men) to get recognition.Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism 101, Make Up, Sheila Jeffreys
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women
“Sarah Moore Grimké (1792 – 1873) was born in South Carolina, to a slave holding family. As an adult she came to Pennsylvania to live. Later, describing the agonies of conscience she suffered on the account of slavery, Sarah Grimké referred to the South as a “wilderness” in which they saw nothing “but desolation […]
Dead Wild Roses: Anthropological Norms Revisited – The Hunter Gatherer
Some food for thought regarding some of the assumptions of Social Darwinism.
–Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour (1986)Filed under: Feminism, History Tagged: Anthropolgy, Femin…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How to dress your son as a female character in Frozen
Glosswitch on letting kids be kids.
Source: How to dress your son as a female character in FrozenFiled under: Feminism
Kersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: SONGS OF SUBVERSION: an interview with Vi Subversa by Lynna Landstreet
The following appeared in the Toronto anarchist newspaper Kick It Over #14 Winter 1985/86:
Poisongirls, who recently played in Canada for the first time, at Lee’s Palace in Toronto, are a British band who have their roots in the punk movement, but have grown much more musically diverse over the eight years they’ve been together. One thing that has remained consistent, though, through the five LP’s two EP’s, and numerous singles (I think that’s right) that the band has released, has been their commitment to their anarchist feminist political convictions, expressed through both their lyrics and their involvement in the ………..READ MORE
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Cordelia Fine On Impression Management for Successful Women
Extra ‘bonus’ features of not being the default normal in society. So when you see women achieve you know that, most likely, they know their shit because they’ve had to work twice as hard as a dude to get similar results. ‘When women display the necessary confidence in their skills and comfort with power, they […]
Dead Wild Roses: The No Platforming of Radical Feminists – Julie Bindel
Fascinating stuff. “So I went onto Essex University campus and I meet the pornographer on the train and we politely say hello. This is a man who has produced porn for years, has given awards to porn sites such as ExploitedAfricans.com, which completely pornifies women coming from the Congo on boats, that have to be […]
Politics, Re-Spun: Shaming Chauvinists 101
Hey, Canada. Don’t you just hate it when other countries make us look so 20th century? In the UK, they’re going to publicly shame employers who maintain gender wage disparities. Sure, it’s not legislated pay equity, but it’s a start. And they’re ahead of us. Seriously, how hard is this? Come on, read on. I … Continue reading Shaming Chauvinists 101 →
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Politics, Re-Spun: Shaming Chauvinists 101
Hey, Canada. Don’t you just hate it when other countries make us look so 20th century? In the UK, they’re going to publicly shame employers who maintain gender wage disparities. Sure, it’s not legislated pay equity, but it’s a start. And they’re ahead of us. Seriously, how hard is this? Come on, read on. I … Continue reading Shaming Chauvinists 101 →
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice: Rank Christian Bullshit-o-Rama
Casting a wide net on the internet is fraught with peril. I’m going to leave the links in long form because really,the embedded info is introduction enough for this post. —– http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/christian-website-dont-look-at-your-wifes-face-during-sex-to-enjoy-it-even-when-she-resists/#.Vi6_CMluvu8.facebook How a husband can enjoy sex that is grudgingly given by his wife —— This would be ROPJ material (see the RPOJ on […]
Dead Wild Roses: Quotes from the Red Women’s Committee – Fight Patriarchy and Imperialism!
Women, organized and speaking up for themselves, naming their oppressors and fighting back. Inspiring stuff. 🙂 “It is an urgent necessity for the development of the communist movement and the revolutionary movement in general, that every viewpoint which sees the oppression of women as a “side issue” or any feminism as “petty bourgeois” be […]
Dead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – Andrea Dworkin
“Because women are everywhere, and because, as Shulamith Firestone said, a sex class is invisible because everyone takes it to be nature, and because many of the abuses that women systematically suffer are called sex, and because women are socialized in a way to make us indifferent to the plight of other women, and because […]
Dead Wild Roses: MRA Zombie Lies – #1 Custody of Children
It’s funny, you keep hearing the same bullshit from different dudes – its like they all have a master-list o’crap they refer to when they decide they want to ‘participate’ in discussions about feminism – with the bonus effect of trying to make it all about them. Add the cherry-of-equality on top and there […]
Dead Wild Roses: The Gift of Fear – Discounting the Word “No” – The Experience for Woman and Men is Different.
Gavin de Becker in his book The Gift of Fear is about how we sometimes short circuit the information we receive from the environment. Here is an excerpt regarding a seeking help in a situation and concluding with how social dynamics really bollocks things up for women. “A woman alone who needs assistance […]
Politics, Re-Spun: If Beyonce…
Beyonce's dancers paid tribute to #MarioWoods, black man killed by San Francisco police. #SB50 #BlackLives pic.twitter.com/m2Pl9i5qKL — Jamilah King (@jamilahking) February 8, 2016 If Beyoncé could do THAT at the Superbowl, what could happen at the oh, so white Oscars? XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX … Continue reading If Beyonce… →
Dead Wild Roses: The Second Wave Saw it Coming – Post-Feminism
If your Feminism doesn’t center females at its core, you may have a problem… Stevi Jackson. Trouble & Strife Winter 1992/93.Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Essentialism, Feminsm, Gender
Dead Wild Roses: Female Socialization – Mary Wollstonecraft
“Wollstonecraft concentrated on describing the state of ignorance and servility to which women were condemned by social custom and training. The passionate feeling with which her book is imbued give it wide social appeal and persuasive power. […] Wollstonecraft’s acute question – “how many generations may be necessary to give vigour to the virtue […]
Dead Wild Roses: Making Feminism Acceptable – bell hooks
Often when arguing about feminism on the internet, I hear from my opponents – well there are just sooo many types of feminism – how can my brain handle all this variation. Let’s just simplify the notion a touch. There is the feminism that pleases men and there is the feminism that doesn’t. The feminism […]