This message brought to you on behalf of entitled, scared men everywhere… (see more on the ‘equality trap’) I do love my subscription to the OED word of the day mailing list, and metagrobolize is just too good a word to forget; thus I need to use it a bunch
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Dead Wild Roses: Spot the Misogyny
On my old blog, where I haven’t posted in years, I at one time had a series of posts called “spot the misogyny”, where I had been making an effort to document misogynist images and texts in my everyday environment. The rule was, I couldn’t go out looking for them;
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Feminist Battle against Male Entitlement and Rape Culture
An excerpt from The Feminist Battle After the Isla Vista Massacre by Rebecca Solnit: “Six years ago, when I sat down and wrote the essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” here’s what surprised me: though I began with a ridiculous example of being patronized by a man, I ended with
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The intro to an article I wish I had written. How is that a man can leave a 140-page manifesto describing, in explicit detail, how much he hates women, why he hates women, why he thinks women deserve to be punished, and precisely how he plans to punish them —
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Saving Women’s Lives – A Divisive Issue for Stephen Harper.
Letting women die because of unsafe abortions is awesome! Isn’t is cute when our politicians decide that keeping the zany religious fruit-bats in their ‘base’ happy is more important that saving women’s lives? Just ask our lovely PM Steven Harper all about appeasing the religious zealotry that makes up a
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My last blog post was about two children’s books about people not wanting to admit that they had seen something because they were scared they would be judged for it, labeled stupid or crazy. Today I want to write about one of the topics that I fear to speak on.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: But MEN get objectified just as much as Women do…
Ah, the familiar strains of the equalist argument blithly denying the power gradients and class structure present in society. It warms my heart when this old chestnut get brought out displaying the deep level of ignorance and self-importance of the dude that is usually mansplaining it to me. But hey,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: But MEN get objectified just as much as Women do…
Ah, the familiar strains of the equalist argument blithly denying the power gradients and class structure present in society. It warms my heart when this old chestnut get brought out displaying the deep level of ignorance and self-importance of the dude that is usually mansplaining it to me. But hey-hey,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Girls View Sexual Violence as Normal – AKA Rape Culture.
The really bestest-awesomest part of discussing rape culture with dudes (and select handmaidens of the patriarchy) is their abject denial of rape culture. Yet, objectively, the culture we live in is a rape culture and this study adds even more support to what many feminists have been saying
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Girls View Sexual Violence as Normal – AKA Rape Culture.
The really bestest-awesomest part of discussing rape culture with dudes (and select handmaidens of the patriarchy) is their abject denial of rape culture. Yet, objectively, the culture we live in is a rape culture and this study adds even more support to what many feminists have been saying
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Domestic Violence – Men “lose control”. (not really)
Domestic violence. Not acceptable, not ever. “TW DOMESTIC ABUSE ——When [an abusive man] tells me that he became abusive because he lost control of himself, I ask him why he didn’t do something even worse. For example, I might say, “You called her a fucking whore, you grabbed the
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Domestic violence. Not acceptable, not ever. “TW DOMESTIC ABUSE ——When [an abusive man] tells me that he became abusive because he lost control of himself, I ask him why he didn’t do something even worse. For example, I might say, “You called her a fucking whore, you grabbed the phone
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR PSA – For the Dudes – Schrödinger’s Rapist
“You want to say Hi to the cute girl on the subway. How will she react? Fortunately, I can tell you with some certainty, because she’s already sending messages to you. Looking out the window, reading a book, working on a computer, arms folded across chest, body away from you
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“You want to say Hi to the cute girl on the subway. How will she react? Fortunately, I can tell you with some certainty, because she’s already sending messages to you. Looking out the window, reading a book, working on a computer, arms folded across chest, body away from you
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Future of Caretaking
My friend recently rescued some softbound books from his apartment’s lobby area, sort of a communal reuse and recycle area. In publication called New Politics I found the opening paragraphs from Betty Reid Mandell’s article The Future of Caretaking most informative, and worthy enough to be shared with you fair
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sidewalk Harassment I Can Get Behind
Yes, I know I am doing a candy bar a favour. Ignore the advert bits at the end and imagine a world where it was like this all the time. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Street Harassment, The Way it Should Be
Continue readingwmtc: some thoughts on emily brontë’s wuthering heights
Cover of 1943 Random Houseedition with woodcut illustrations Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights in 1847, under a pseudonym. Brontë died the following year, at age 30. It was the only book she would ever publish. How did an isolated young woman, a parson’s daughter from a remote area of Yorkshire, who never married,
Continue readingJoe Fantauzzi: Good Reading: Melissa Fong On The Intersection Of Racism and Male Privilege
Melissa Fong offers a fantastic analysis of some online activism being done by @SUEY_PARK, @BLACKGIRLDANGER @THEWAYOFTHEID and @CHEUYA around issues of male privilege and its intersection with racism. Ms. Fong’s post comes in the aftermath of @Suey_Park’s opposition to a racist joke made by a Twitter account affiliated with television personality Stephen
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