THIS IS MARRIAGE!! Thats right! Permission to be a bad ass. Nod. He looks back at the guy like, “SEE THAT? SHE SAID YES. YOU’RE SO FUCKED.” Like, guys. Sparta was so kick ASS sometimes when it came to women. Spartan women were given these small knives so that if
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Dead Wild Roses: Feminism 101 – Important Concepts
Almost always when discussing Feminism there is a person that decides to add to the discussion and proceed to *argle-bargle* on about things when in fact they are proving most adroitly that they cannot find their ass with both hands. Education is one of the goals of this blog and
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Men: Never 100% Responsible for Rape?
I have no words, at least I thought I didn’t. It’s bad enough that men rape women, then modern culture shames women for wearing anything but a burlap sack. I do not condone rape or sexual assault, but I think the male teens often so accused are not wholly to
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Online news is filled with stories about the rape chant from Saint Mary’s University and while there’s been backlash about it now somehow the students at that university have been putting up with the chant since at least 2009. Then there’s the story about Stacey Rambold being sentenced to just
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Today in Rape Culture: DC Comics
Easy pickings today as the comic book genre is not exactly a bastion of feminism. That being said, it just behooves me not to share the head slapping stupidity of the people who designed an open contest to see if they have “the chops” to join the DC team. Let’s
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Institution of Traditional Marriage…
Needs not to be like this…not back then, not now and not in the future. If it is, get help immediately, or not so immediately if you can. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Domestic Violence, DWR PSA, Traditional Marriage
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Captain Awkward’s Words of Wisdom – The Female “No”
You know what privilege is? It’s not having to expend the mental energy to do certain things or even having to think about doing certain thing. Another fun fact your perceptions and reactions are yours and yours alone and as a general rule of thumb should *not* be
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day:Dworkin On Pornography
“The most terrible thing about pornography is that it tells male truth. The most insidious thing about pornography is that it tells male truth as if it were universal truth. Those depictions of women in chains being tortured are supposed to represent our deepest erotic aspirations. And some of us
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: One Hell of a Feminist Mission Statement.
I wish I had thought of this. Patriarchy is a term used to describe a system in which males are socialized at birth to acquire a set of attributes that are meant to maintain a sex-specific hierarchical system that establishes them as superior to females and grants them more
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Pimp my Facepalm
Pro-tip: Parenting magazines should not be using the language of Pornography to sell shoes to kids. Just sayn. Thanks to the Bewilderness for the post. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Parenting Fail, Pornography
Continue readingwmtc: the tv detective mystery, where women are crazy and ex-husbands don’t kill
One type of TV show that I enjoy are detective murder mysteries. I don’t watch them all – that would be nearly impossible, Netflix carries so many – but I’m always looking for detective shows that I find absorbing. “Inspector Lewis” is probably my favourite. I loved “Prime Suspect“, Helen
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tell Me Again about Humanism… – Feminist Quote of the Day
“With a disgust common to all feminists who have tried to be participants in the so-called humanism of men, only to discover through bitter experience that the culture of males does not allow honest female participation, Virginia Woolf wrote: “I detest the masculine point of view, I am bored by
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Abuse Doesn’t Always Mean a Bruise
From the Bewilderness. **TW for violence and domestic abuse. ** “A few weeks ago my mom stapled pages of a story in one of her women’s magazines together and handed it to me. She gave it to me pretty much with the tag lines “for your feminist blog” and “something
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Derailment Bingo!
Oh we’ve all been there, but now we can play along at the same time! Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Derail Bingo, Dudes, Feminism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – Woman Hating – Andrea Dworkin
“Pain is an essential part of the grooming process, and that is not accidental. Plucking the eyebrows, shaving under the arms, wearing a girdle, learning to walk in high-heeled shoes, having one’s nose fixed, straightening or curling one’s hair —these things hurt. The pain, of course, teaches an important lesson:
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Paternity Rights in Rape Cases
It’s an interesting moral dilemma to have a judge decide a child has access to a father when the only contact the mother and father had was a sexual assault producing this child. This isn’t entirely the story here. In this article, it could be a case of statutory rape.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape Culture – Steubenville
In response to the Steubenville, Ohio teen rape case, West Virginia U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld is launching a program to teach high school athletes not to post evidence of rape online. It’s called “Project Future,” and his goal is to teach teens how to avoid getting in trouble with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How To Look Your Best…
*TW Domestic violence* As per usual with ytube, do not go read the comments as your hate of humanity will be reaffirmed. Filed under: Ethics, Feminism Tagged: Domestic Violence, DWR PSA, Feminism, Look your Best!
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Christian Pro Life Anti-Woman Bullshitters on Display
It is amazing the fuck-wittery that metastasizes when you combine religion and anti-choice thinking. I’m so disgusted and anguished over the deceptive practices at these so called Crisis Pregnancy Centers that I’m reproducing the entire article by Caitlin Bancroft written on the Huffington Post Blog. A big hearty frak-you
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Seeing is Understanding – Creepy Dude Tactics.
Hey d00dz, do you realize all the shit that you don’t ever have to put up with. I bet you don’t. Blair has a helpful story for you. “This is about speaking up, creepers, and what good men don’t always see. Names have been changed. Some time ago, I
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