Oh ho, a place where people who moan about PC have finally been vindicated… Essential reading for women and men. Catch the .pdf here. *Note for those without adblockers, the actual download link is small, almost covered by a large spam link. Be wary of this subterfuge while getting the .pdf. (Many thanks to JJshaw […]
Tag: Feminism
Dead Wild Roses: Dress Codes – Rape Culture
We’ll just file this under ‘pages that I need to photocopy and widely distribute’.
Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Rape Culture, Socialization
Dead Wild Roses: The American Anti-Choice Movie Bullshiters Indicted – About Frackn’ Time
Finally. A Houston grand jury investigating undercover footage of Planned Parenthood found no wrongdoing Monday by the abortion provider, and instead indicted anti-abortion activists involved in making the videos that targeted the handling of fetal tissue in clinics and provoked outrage among Republican leaders nationwide. This is what happens when your platform is based […]
Dead Wild Roses: Rebecca Solnit – Who Can’t Take Jokes?
You can watch Rebecca’s insight in action right here folks on this very blog. Watch how, when things don’t go their way. the fire-works begin – personal attacks, insults, hyperbole, all with a heavy dose of condescending mansplination. “But seriously, you know who can’t take a joke? White guys. Not if it implicates […]
Dead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of The Day – The Separation of Sex and Politics – Sheila Jeffreys
“By some mysterious process all that pertains to sex in this society has been separated off from politics, even by those who would consider themselves socialist and radicals. In order to make sexual practice a private enclave of individual delight, sexuality has been seen as somehow removed from the effects of sexism, racism, any oppression […]
Dead Wild Roses: Wow, 2016 is just as chockfull of Sexism as 2015.
This just isn’t right, not at any time or circumstance. Yet, these witty ad-wizards have decided that sexism sells and are trying to promote a translation device that allows you, as demonstrated, to creep on non-English speakers. Awesome. Cringe worthy to say the least.Filed under: Feminism, Media Tagged: Advertising, Creepers, Feminism, Oh those normative […]
Dead Wild Roses: #BeAngry – The experience is different for Women and Men
Here is a just a snapshot of what it’s like… “What’s on my mind, Facebook? Glad you asked. I am angry. I’m angry because before I moved to the UK, I worked at a bar where the manager proposed a new uniform where the men wore waistcoats and button up shirts, while the women […]
Dead Wild Roses: The Rape/Revenge Genre’s Gender Revelations
“Rape/revenge is replete in tension and bloody cathartic release; there is terrifying violation, and then there is revenge you can feel good about. The films use women’s trauma to justify stereotypically male pleasures of hyperbolic violence. So Thelma and Louise get to pick up guns and shoot people like they’re in a Western, while Furiosa […]
Dead Wild Roses: If You Needed More Reasons to Be Against Pornography – Andrea Dworkin
-Andrea Dworkin “The Lie” 1979. Letters from a War Zone 1993.Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Andrea Dworkin, Feminist Quote of the Day, Pornography
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Mary Chapman: Are Women People?
Influential feminist Alice Duer Miller’s question “Are Women People?” still rings true after 100 years, writes Mary Chapman, a professor of English at the University of British Columbia.
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Dead Wild Roses: The First RPOJ of 2016 – Full Frontal Stupidity
I cannot identify what it is with dudes and radical feminism. There must be some strange extra-sensory siren call that attracts dudes and dudely opinion to articles, blogs, and heck even just mere information about women speaking unequivocally about their experiences and analysis of society. Of course the attraction is just one part of […]
Dead Wild Roses: On Violence – Alicen Gray
“It’s painful when I hear/see quotes from men, waxing poetic about how violent and inhumane “we” “humans” are “to each other”. When historically and globally, males account for the vast, vast majority of violence. Mostly against women. I used to wonder, how could these men – fancying themselves profound and in-on Truth – possibly call […]
Dead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – Andrea Dworkin
“Feminism requires precisely what misogyny destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power.”
-Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating.Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Andrea Dworkin, DWR Feminist Quote of the Day, Feminism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gaslighting: Know it when you see it.
A big hearty frack you goes out to the mind games and other assorted BS that goes on society. If you see it, acknowledge it and name it for what it is. You won’t make friends, but life too short to hang around people who deviously manipulate other people. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Definitions, […]
Dead Wild Roses: Gender and Family Farms – I love the Smell the Patriarchy in the Morning
JSTOR Daily – News with a scholarly slant. Damn Son, I’m going to be all over that site. 🙂 From the article on Gender and Family Farms: “Scott writes that all 23 women interviewed for the paper described doing both male and female chores. Men, on the other hand, talked mostly about male labor. […]
Dead Wild Roses: Hey is my Argument Feminist?
A helpful guide to assessing if you’re ‘with the program’ or not. Many thanks to WitWitch for the post. “How do you know if your argument is feminist? Well, check out the basic core beliefs of feminism. Does your argument support these beliefs? The value of women is inherent because we are human beings. […]
Dead Wild Roses: bell hooks on ‘Imperialist White Supremacist Capitalism Patriarchy ‘
Filed under: Feminism Tagged: bell hooks, Feminist Quote of the Day, Patriarchy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Catcalling – Just don’t.
Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Patriarchy, Sexism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – The Gender Binary – Lierre Keith
What is gender and how does if affect our society? Lierre Keith provides some insight and clarity regarding the topic while casting some shade on the po-mo obfuscation of said topic.
Filed under: Feminism Tagged: DWR Feminist Quote of the Day, Femini…
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminst Quote of the Day – Patriarchal Societies – Monica Sjoo & Barbara Mor
On being female in society. Boom. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Barbara Mor, Feminism, Life as Female, Monica Sjoo, Patriarchy, Soceity, The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day