The RPOJ comes for thee DC. A previous encounter with this fine individual has inspired me to go to his blog and deconstruct all the vile shite that he churns out on semi-regular basis. Douche-Canoe (DC) is a dyed in the wool homophobe, misogynist and whinger makes for some fantastic
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Dead Wild Roses: Adria Richards: How many more examples?
Patriarchal Nonsense. How many more examples do we need to understand that our society is still in love with patriarchy and misogyny? Adria Richards makes a reasonable gesture, calling people out for their crappy remarks, and for her trouble she is fired and gets rape and death threats. We’re completely
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Revolution at Point Zero: Montreal Book Launch and Discussion with Silvia Federici (April 4th)
[please post and forward widely] [svp diffusez largement] [français ci-dessous][facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/123882664466638/] Revolution at Point Zero: A Book Launch and Discussion with Silvia Federici Thursday April 4 at 6:30pm1610 Ste-Catherine West (Faubourg Building), Room B-060(métro Guy-Concordia) – This event is free.– For free on-site childcare, please call 24 hours in advance:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Misogyny on Tap – Deconstructing A Demented Douche-Canoe.
Imagine, if you will, walking in a salubrious green meadow. The sun is shining, a cool breeze plays delicately with your hair, you’re lost in the rich tapestry of nature; all is well. Then imagine you step into a what appears to be the largest, most vile pile of dung
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Raw Story: 13 Year Old Called a Whore.
Yep, we certainly do NOT live in a rape culture. “The 13-year-old victim of an alleged sexual assault has been called a “whore” and bullied by athletes and students after two Connecticut football players were charged for the crime. The Register Citizen on Wednesday reported that Edgar Gonzalez and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminism is…
‘Nuff said. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Definitions, Feminism, Infographic
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: *Wiggle-Wiggle* Goes the Red Pen of Justice – This is to You, Who Support Murder[!!1!1!]
The RPOJ comes for thee BJ! I had a sense on this one, as I was typing my reply to the burning stupid present on this site, that my commentary might not be published. Given that dudes, with what they deem to be important opinions, tend not to like being
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Most Men Don’t Want to Hear This…
A big thanks to Sexgenderbody from the Daily Kos. men – we are the problem. all of the problems. and not just some of us – all of us. we are bullies, rapists, murderers and we live off the sweat and pain of anyone we can. you may not
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Prostitution – Hurting Women and Children; Always.
I’m not really into the whole prostitution is what happens between consenting adults argument. I find that it reeks with the notion that the experiences of a lucky few, a sub set of a sub set, somehow overlays what happens to most people who get involved in prostitution; that would
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Damsel in Distress – Tropes Vs Women in Video Games
Oh, those women, they just want to have power over men. Evil feminists that don’t see the FACT that men and women are treated equally now… Pardon me while a expunge the neurons used to formulate those sentences… *splork*… Ahh…all better. Like it or not, video games are a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Forced Birth is Slavery for Women
Make no mistake, the pro-life-forced-birth lobby are advocating slavery for women. Dianne, in a comment on Pharygula, captures exactly the position our anti-choice friends would like to put women in. Query: Why are they talking about the circumstances of the conception as though that matters? A forced pregnancy is slavery,
Continue readingTerahertz: Canada doesn’t have a sexism/racism problem
International Women’s Day is a good reminder of how far we still have to go toward gender equality. Women represent just 11 per cent of board members on companies listed on the S&P/TSX composite index, which represents large publicly traded Canadian companies. … Among the TSX-composite-listed companies, 42 per cent
Continue readingArt Threat: Free Int’l Women’s Day Films at NFB.ca
The beaten (by the Canadian Conservative budget cuts) but not down National Film Board of Canada is offering a treasure trove of titles for free streaming today, in celebration and recognition of International Women’s Day. Included in the bunch is the 2012 experimental short by Jenn Strom, below (after the
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Inconvenient Truths for White Men
Men, especially white men, sleep too easily at night while women earn 70 per cent of what we do. Secretly, I think we’d prefer to not have to talk about this much. Sure, March 8 and December 6 are days we set aside for reflecting on this, but, most likely,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Clarification for our Anti-Choice Friends: Life at Conception? Err..No.
One of the cheap rhetorical tricks that forced birth advocates often use is the idea that somehow “Science” (ya know science, that vast shadowy monolithic structure) supports their crappy arguments and thus lends weight to their assault on women and their rights. One of the easiest tells illustrating the rhetorical,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday PSA – This Is My Body
Ah, the forced birth lobby has finally pissed off enough women to start the inevitable slapdown of their deplorable, retrograde fundamentally anti-woman position. Let’s keep this video in the “abortion” feed for a long time, in light of that goal, I encourage everyone to share and repost this clip
Continue readingArt Threat: Low-class Oscars leave the ladies booing
To this day the most difficult thing I’ve ever had to do in my career was stand in front of a group of 300 university students in my role as president of an student newspaper organization – my peers at the time – and explain to them that they needed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The War on Men – For the Lolz
And the nominee for Ministry of Truth goes to, you guessed it Fox News. The bullshite truly runs free on this fetid gem of an article featured on Faux News. Yes, the War has come home. The War on MEN is ON!!!!11!1!!! This article ranks highly on the coveted
Continue readingArt Threat: Athena Film Festival passes the Bechdel test
Occasionally films come out in the mainstream that give a glimpse of hope that perhaps the world of film is changing and becoming more adept at telling stories that don’t rely on sexist stereotypes – last summer the Hunger Games gave a promise of a heroine who could fend for
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Canada, with Women on Abortion
Steven Harper really enjoys floating trial balloons through his back benches. Another preemptive volley from the <a href=”http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2013/02/power-politics-ballot-box-question-187.html”>western conservative black hole of politics</a>has made it the media. The poll, of course, has been skewed by the screwball forced birth advocating religious right in Canada so ignore the results. However,
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