April Reign I deleted my Facebook account awhile ago because I could no longer feel right with myself visiting a site which so clearly violates my principles. Complaints about misogynist groups advocating rape and other abuses towards women, groups degrading those with physical or mental handicaps were regularly met with
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Dead Wild Roses: News Flash: Abortion isn’t Murder
And here is why : Abortion fails to meet the legal definition of murder even when abortion is illegal (Interesting huh?) Here’s why: Unlawful – Abortion is not unlawful in North America. Person hood– A fetus is not legally defined as a person. Nor can it be defined scientifically as
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Curing Gender Imbalance in Media? MONEY!
Movies that pass the Bechdel Test…make…more…money. The best things in life are free, but you can give them to the birds and bees. Media corporations love their money. And in a sexist society, common sense indicates that movies with lots of testosterone and no whiny women should make more money.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sadly We Have Lewis’s Law
It happens in almost every thread here that the dudosphere gets wind of. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Lewis’s Law
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Important Question for Men – What will you choose?
Somehow, it is still hard to talk to men about sexism without meeting a wall of defensiveness that shades into outright hostility, even violence. Anger is an entirely appropriate response to learning that you’re implicated in a system that oppresses women – but the solution isn’t to direct that anger
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: White Male Bias – Nope Nope Nope.
The idea that those in control would want media to promote their ideology seems obvious. Let’s examine two helpful charts. Huh, a bias toward white males. What could it mean? Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Media Bias, White Male Washing
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Our Continued Sexual Repression
Sherlock & John I watched the first episode of the new season of Sherlock last night. There’s a sub-plot with no spoilers here: John Watson gets engaged to Mary. Mrs. Hudson, the landlady, is shocked that he’s engaged to a woman since he and Sherlock were obviously so close –
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A wish for the New Year.
Filed under: Feminism Tagged: A New Year’s Wish, Body Image, The Body Shaming Industries, Women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bell Hooks – On Romance and Violence
“Women reading romances are being encouraged to accept the idea that violence heightens and intensifies sexual pleasure. They are also encouraged to believe that violence is a sign of masculinity and a gesture of male care, that the degree to which a man becomes violently angry corresponds to the intensity
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: MRA’s – The Abuser Lobby
“Perpetrators of SA [Sexual Assault] tend to adhere to traditional gender-role stereotypes, especially with respect to the acceptance of male dominance, acceptance of rape-supportive myths, acceptance of interpersonal violence as a means of conflict resolution, and hostility toward women. These beliefs develop at an early age and come from many
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Women Hating: Submission
Hi All! Bleatmop here. I’ve recently been asked by Arb to fisk an article that I guess needed fisking. Since I haven’t contributed here in a while I didn’t want to pass this opportunity up. Unfortunately fisking isn’t really my style. Therefore I thought I would respond to the blog
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Brave Manosphere Warrior intones – How to be a Man!!
It must be the holiday season as it seems that I’ve given the gift of knowledge to an intrepid crusader of the Manosphere. Slow days at work means I can spend time feeding my SIWOTI compulsion. This is Red Pen of Justice material, but in a different format as instead
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Women, Peace, and Security
What a concept eh? Filed under: Feminism Tagged: DWR PSA, Peace, Security, Women
Continue readingIlluminated By Street Lamps: No Federal Childcare Program: An Exercise In Strengthening Hegemony
Canada, a nation among the wealthiest in the world, cannot meet its daycare needs. The problem has grown to crisis proportions in the country’s largest cities. In Toronto there are only enough daycare spaces for about one in five of the city’s children.[1] In downtown
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Fried Squirrels
It’s a crisp, foggy November Saturday morning in the south side of the city. Seventeen people sit in the large open area at the back end of an organic fair trade coffee shop run by a workers’ co-op inspired by the Mondragon movement in Spain. Meet-ups like this are quite
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Secret Weapon: Self-Esteem
It’s Monday. Have you contributed positively to a young girl’s self esteem yet today? If not, here is some inspiration and a place to get better resourced! “As a child, I never heard one woman say to me: ‘I love my body.’ Not my mother, my elder sister, my best
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “I Hate Teasing Whores” – Rise, Red Pen of Justice, Rise.
Oh the Kitteh Teasing! This is one of those cases where all the hard work has been done for me. The train has wrecked, the roller coaster has cleanly left the rails, the cat has barfed on the piano. The fail is so densely packed into Matthew’s post that just
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: For the Love of a Good Fisking – MRA Stupidity on Display
The problem with discussing issues with MRA’s…. too many to count. But someone took the time to systematically tease out all of the bullshite they tend to spew. Go here to see the MRA screed and the annotations that dismember the silly MRA claims. Filed under: Feminism Tagged:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Now why is that so effective?
Let me assure you though, it has nothing to do with patriarchy, the gender binary or any of those things that feminists seem to talk about all the time. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Cultural Norms, Feminsim, Gender binary, Patriarchy
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: How Does Violence at Home Affect Workplaces in Canada?
Worksafe BC at least isn’t keeping itself in the dark Here is yet another stigma-laden, denial-inducing taboo topic in society and workplaces: domestic violence. And when we connect violence at home to effects on people as workers in the workplace, we get lots of crickets. So I’m happy to report
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