This is what solidarity looks like; make sure it’s authentic! Lots of us care about deepening relationships with and social/economic/political justice for first peoples. It’s hard to come in, though, sometimes as a person from an oppressor or settler class. But there is a good checklist to make sure we’re
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Politics, Re-Spun: I Believe the Children Are Our Future: Barf
Faisal and Azeem, getting it done! Platitudes and paternalism aside, the 21st century actually does belong to the young. And not that they’re OUR future, like an extension of us, but that we are stewarding the future for them. And we’re doing a pretty horrible job of it. But since
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape Apologia – Drunk Women
Wow, this is still a thing. Drunk women do not deserve to get raped. Ever. From i-once-had-a-guy-tell-me: I am NOT saying that all cases could have been avoided but certain ones yes. My thing is that girls that go to parties and get drunk don’t blame themselves a tiny bit.
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m watching: ken burns’ "prohibition", an excellent documentary
This week we finished Ken Burns’ excellent documentary “Prohibition,” and I recommend it highly to everyone who enjoys history. Most of us know at least something about Prohibition, especially how it failed, but I’d bet that much of this film will be eye-opening. And, if you aren’t a regular viewer
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Speech Highlights Finn Mackay
Some inspirational words from the 2013 Feminism in London Conference, the speaker was Finn Mackay – see the whole speech here. Let us be clear. It is not feminism that turns women into victims. It is the men who choose to abuse women, who choose to violate women, who presume
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Designer Vaginas and Media Influence
Labiaplasty is on the rise. Who knew? There’s an article in the Guardian in which Daisy Buchanan argues that we can’t blame porn for this rush towards plastic surgery to pretty-up our lady bits because it’s everywhere; in mainstream music videos we can see about as much as porn shows.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Patriachy – Hard to spot?
Clueless dudes are always going on about the rise of female power, and how good women have it now. Heck, the post-feminist era has been declared, always by dudes, to have arrived. Bullshit. Lisa Kudrow, in a scene from Scandal, enumerates some the features of the ingrained patriarchal cultural norms
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Munk Debates: Are Men Obsolete?
While I was waiting for the newest Munk Debate to show up on the site, I watched an old one. An excellent debate between Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens on, of course, religion. There’s little I enjoy more than watching really intelligent thinkers go at each other with carefully and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Germaine Greer – Women Should Be Angry
Fantastic interview with Germaine Greer. Appreciate a great intellect on display. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Education, Feminism, Germaine Greer
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What Victim Blaming Looks Like to the Vicitim – Erika Nicole Kendall
I suggest reading the entire article, but some highlights I’ll post here. “I said this a long time ago, and I’m saying it again – not only is rape about a rapist having control, but victim blaming is about controlling the female population: what better way to cajole women
Continue readingTerahertz: Scientific Misogynistic
While I usually ignore and skip YouTube ads as quickly as possible, the one I just saw was too ridiculous(ly offensive) to not skip. Well, at least until “Ben” complained about how frequently he gets “friend-zoned”. What hooked me on this video was the absurd claim that “Ben” was going
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWE Sunday Disservice – Malala Yousafzai’s Book Banned
Pakistan announced that Malala Yousafzai’s book “I Am Malala” was banned from private schools. From the CBC: Officials say they have banned teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai’s book from private schools across Pakistan, calling her a tool of the West. It isn’t about religion, holiness, or allah, god (etc.).
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Stats the MRA’s Don’t Wan’t to Talk About.
“One of the most pervasive and undisputed gender stereotypes is that men are more aggressive than women. However, this stereotype has, until recently, led researchers to conclude that women are nonaggressive and, therefore, to ignore the topic of female aggression as a distinct phenomenon. The basis of the myth,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Unhappy Reality of Female Socialization :(
A helpful primer for the dudes out there. Thank you, Fugitivus “Here’s a situation every woman is familiar with: some guy she knows, perhaps a casual acquaintance, perhaps just some dude at the bus stop, is obviously infatuated with her. He’s making conversation, he’s giving her the eye. She
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Best Make Up Tutorial Evar!
🙂 Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Femimism, Makeup, satire, tutorial time
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Russell Brand admits he “suffers from the ol’ sexism”
I suppose Brand is also reading and listening to the critics too: One thing I’ve learned and was surprised by is that I may suffer from the ol’ sexism. I can only assume I have an unaddressed cultural hangover, like my adorable Nan who had a heart that shone like
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Every Reason for an Abortion is a Good Reason
From the article on Reality Check. “Abortion is often framed as a mercy bestowed upon a woman who has committed the “crime” of having had sex. Mercy is something that someone else grants you, however, and not something you can simply decide for yourself that you deserve. That’s what people
Continue readingMelissa Fong: What the heck is a complementarist?
What the heck is a complementarist? Well I will tell you. [3] I was forced to look this up when I noticed that some of the traffic to my blog was also overlapping somewhat with people who would call themselves “Complementarians” (this is probably due to my awesome Feminist rants
Continue readingArt Threat: Can I Touch It?
North Carolina based artist Endia Deal explores the relationships of minority women within the corporate space. Her most recent project, “Can I touch it?”, is a photo series depicting white women in their 40s or older with traditionally black hairstyles. The final results show women with cornrows, flat twists, fingerwaves
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Andrea Dworkin – Woman Hating, Right and Left.
“When we point out that there is a rape every three minutes, that a woman is beaten every eighteen seconds in this country, that’s very bad for women because it makes them feel victimized. And we’re not supposed to be bad and make women feel bad. This is the ultimate
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