Just a great article through and through. Go read it all here. “I sort of kicked the hornets’ nest the other day, by expressing feminist opinions about books. It all came down to Lolita. “Some of my favorite novels are disparaged in a fairly shallow way. To read Lolita and ‘identify’ with one of the […]
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Dead Wild Roses: Media Reinforces Patriarchal Norms
Completely shocking I know… Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Helpful Infographics, Media, Patriarchy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Pervasive Sexism in Hollywood, Shocking.
Oh hey, if you have not zipped over and read the whole article on the New York Times, you should. The attitudes expressed and the hurdles women face are replicated in almost every occupation and fascinatingly enough the dudes in charge seem pretty “OK” with the situation. “There had long been a strange sort of […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Rage Sanitized for Public Consumption – The Polytéchnique Massacre, December 6th, 1989.
I’m probably already reprinting to much, but frack it. This shit is too important not to repeat. Go to the Ottawa Citizen’s webpage and read the entire article by Shelly Page. “I was 24, sent by the Toronto Star to write about the slaughter of female engineering students, all around my age; fourteen […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Reproductive Rights – The Whole Ball Game – Glosswitch
One of the main axis of female oppression is reproduction. Glosswitch expounds on this theme, I recommend viewing the entire post here. “The trouble with reproductive choice isn’t that most of us are in mourning over embryos gone to waste. It’s that, if you really believe in it, you have to give people with uteruses the […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR PSA – Tea Consent
Greetings and good day gentle readers. Today’s PSA is a helpful video on consent that should help make clear what it is and how it works with regards to initiating sexy times with people.
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Dead Wild Roses: Drain the Swamp – The Colorado Planned Parenthood Tragedy
The cesspool that is toxic masculinity, the sea we all swim in, had a newsworthy (aka an effect on people other than women) peak at the Planned Parenthood in Colorado. “Three people were killed and nine others injured after gunfire ripped through a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo., during an hours-long standoff […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: All You Need to Know About How Equality Works in Society in 2 .gifs
The notion we have a fair playing field, a balance, whatever you’d like to call it is quite patently false. We have not all just fallen out of some sort of Rawlsian simulator into a just society. Injustice and anti-egalitarian ideals are normative in society, they are the water we swim in, the air we […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Religion and Patriarchy – Doing ‘Solids’ for Each Other All Over the Damn World.
Welcome gentle readers. Today I ask of thee but a kernel of patience whilst I set up the topic at hand. Religion and Patriarchy actively conspire against the female half of humanity. We have to look no further than Christian Patriarchy over here and Islamic Fundamentalism over there to see the corrosive effects of religion […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Domestic Violence – A Step Forward in Alberta
First and foremost if you are experiencing Domestic Violence in Alberta check out these numbers from the Human Services branch of the Alberta Government: “Talk to trained staff over the phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in more than 170 languages. Chat anonymously online with staff from noon to 8:00 p.m., […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Makeup is so much bullshit
I (almost) never wear makeup to work. A whole lot of it is that I simply can’t be arsed, but it’s also a specifically political decision: men don’t have to, so why should I. I recognize that, as a knowledge worker who’s valued for my brainz, I’m honestly privileged not to have to focus on my […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: #Cover the Athlete – Sexism in Sports Media
Yet I still hear people everday proclaiming that we are ‘done’ with feminism and that ‘for all intensive purposes’ the sexes are treated equally in society. Horsefeathers to those notions, I say. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Sexism, Sports Media, The Status Quo
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rachel Moran on Prostitution – Job Qualifications…
Rachel Moran describes some of the ‘qualifications’ necessary in sex work prostitution. “If we accept prostitution as ordinary work, then we should be able to speak about what the skills of prostitution are…. The ability to control your reflex to vomit. The ability to restrain your urge to cry. The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rebecca Reilly-Cooper On Germaine Greer – Identity Politics Has Become a Cult.
I would suggest that you go read the full article by Rebecca Reilly-Cooper on politics.co.uk right now, as it describes the situation facing many feminists today. Increasingly there is no debate, there is only complete acceptance of a set of views or you’re marginalized. This is not a rational give
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Here is what Sexism Does…
The definitional understanding of what sexism can only take one so far. Living it, raging against it and grappling with it are in another category completely. This from the tumblr blog One Word at a Time. “here is what sexism does. one day it’s catcalling, and you answer back
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: North America As Caligula
“But I will take questions from Entitlement Weekly magazine staff.” 1. In Alberta, one politician said, “Sorry, we’re not taking questions from political journalists” because, you know. 2. Jeb Bush thinks Supergirl looks “pretty hot.” Why even bother anymore. Oh right, because while seniors now outnumber kids, millennials outnumber boomers!
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Name the Problem: Male Predation of Women
Disclaimer – This isn’t specifically about *you* white dude whose ‘sensibilities’ are in a tizzy (you’re welcome for the longer version of #NotAllMen). “Rape was a political crime committed by men against women in order to assert their power. It was an act of terrorism by which, as Susan Brownmiller
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Name the Problem: Male Predation of Women
Disclaimer – This isn’t specifically about *you* white dude whose ‘sensibilities’ are in a tizzy (you’re welcome for the longer version of #NotAllMen). “Rape was a political crime committed by men against women in order to assert their power. It was an act of terrorism by which, as Susan Brownmiller
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Indomitable Nature of Woman’s Courage – Seeking and Receiving an Abortion
The war on women and their rights continues to chug along, it can get depressing having to digest all the misogyny that leaks from the anti-choice, anti-woman side. Despite all the shite that is going on stories get out that are inspiring, here is a excerpt from the NYmag
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Indomitable Nature of Woman’s Courage – Seeking and Receiving an Abortion
The war on women and their rights continues to chug along, it can get depressing having to digest all the misogyny that leaks from the anti-choice, anti-woman side. Despite all the shite that is going on stories get out that are inspiring, here is a excerpt from the NYmag
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