Go to the Guttmacher Institute website for more information. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Abortion, Feminism, Pro-Choice, Pro-life
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A Puff of Absurdity: The Lasting Influence of Rhoda Morgenstern
I just saw that the house featured in the Mary Tyler Moore show is up for sale. And I’ve been thinking about how much I was influenced by the character of Rhoda. I used to wait for the few minutes she’d be on screen each episode. I’m sure I’m not
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape Culture: We’re In It
It doesn’t get made any simpler than this. Yes these are US stats, but do you think it’s really all that different here in Canada? Ya, neither did I. This information is put together by Laura Bassett at The Enliven Project. Data was pulled by the FBI. Go over to
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: How Us Settlers Can Be In Solidarity With #IdleNoMore
Twitter / suzhawkins: As settlers… #idlenomore …. York University’s Suzanne Hawkins is my hero today for showing us all this amazing poster that succinctly describes how us non-indigenous settler folk can stand alongside with the world’s indigenous people seeking redress for generations of racism and discrimination. Solidarity matters! Dialogue matters!
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Meet the “Nice Guys” of Okcupid
But gosh and wow, all at once. There is a sociology paper to be written about this phenomena, the great mystery of why… oh why… ‘nice guys’ cannot get with women. Actually wait, it needs to be feminist paper…or actually a feminist sentence. If women aren’t into you it is
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Politics, Re-Spun Talks with Jarrah Hodge from Gender-Focus.com About Feminism and Work
On December 3, 2012 Politics, Re-Spun’s Stephen Elliott-Buckley spoke with Jarrah Hodge from Gender-Focus.com, exploring issues around feminism and labour, and: labour unions the BC Federation of Labour temporary foreign workers migrant Chinese coal miners [reminiscent of how Canada built its railroad] improving justice and equality in the labour movement
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dudely Wisdom cirra 1975 – Susan Brownmiller
I’m finishing Brownmiller’s book, Against our Will. Funny how the arguments really have not changed and are still regularly trotted out by ‘feminist allies’ and critics here in 2012. As Brownmilla concludes, she thoroughly brings the noise and lays it all down on the table with bon mots like
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Thought for the New Year – Let’s end Prostitution
The words are Susan Brownmiller’s. Her noble goal, to end the exploitation of women – “But my horror at the idea of legalize prostitution is not that it doesn’t work as a rape deterrent, but that it institutionalizes the concept that it is a man’s monetary right, if not his
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Force Birth Advocacy – Anti-Woman all the Time
Hey folks, by now I think you are aware of my positions on pretty much every contentious issue that comes down the pipe. We here at DWR regularly lay waste to the shitty anti-choice arguments that cross our path. We take the time to deconstruct the bullcookery and show
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gang Rape – Women’s Fear – Everyone’s Fear
The fear women live with everyday manifested itself in one of the most horrific ways in New Dehli. “The woman and a male friend, who have not been identified, were on a bus in New Delhi after watching a film on the evening of Dec. 16 when they were
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Media Gender Gap
The red pen of justice is wiggling, but I’ve run out of time. We’ll make do with this rage building infographic while I see if I can scrape some time together during the week to compose the piece that is swirling in my brain. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Gender,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Evidence in Action – Plug your ears now Anti-Choice Advocates.
The Guttmacher Institute is all about giving women the rights to control their reproductive future and of course their bodies. The pro-woman, pro-choice position is based on evidence and facts that no amount of prayer, handwaving or appeals to emotion can over come. Being that your position(my beloved anti-choicers) is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Reducing Abortion Rate – Women Focus Reproductive Care
Brain Trauma inducing thought of the day: By trusting women and giving them control of their reproductive future, less unplanned pregnancies and less abortions will occur. [tick tick tick….head asplodes….] I know, how crazy is that? Women…you know the ones that have children…are in the best position to decide whether
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Grand New Low for Pro-Life sites equating Abortion to Sandyhook Elementary Victims
Hypocrisy is flowing from the anti-choice sites like turds from a overfull diaper. The idea that they are somehow committed to the preservation of life is the weapons-grade bullshite that religious thinking actively promotes. The pious fucks are equating abortion to the recent mass murder at Sandyhook Elementary School. How
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Against our Will – The Legal System
Susan Brownmillar examines the role of the justice system with regards to rape. Or perhaps more accurately the “male-justice” system. [On raping a minor under the age of consent] […] States with a high age of consent usually employ the chastity standard for the upper-age limits. In some
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dead Wild Roses – PSA Thrusday
Not ever. “The way women dress and conduct themselves is constantly under scrutiny – particularly in the context of sexual assault. The notion that particular styles or clothes choices can be factors that contribute to sexual assault are ludicrous and damaging to women – as well as being insulting to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape Culture, there is an app for that?
Building communities to protect women via technology, sounds okay to me. Anyhow, the Circle of 6 app is meant to give people, with expensive first world technology, some options. Here is the press blurb from the site. “With Circle of 6 you have a new way to connect with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day
“Unless we accept that women are biologically programmed to engage in beauty practices, then they need to be understood as cultural practices that are required of women. All practices required of one sex class rather than the other should be examined for their political role in maintaining male dominance. “
Continue readingIlluminated By Street Lamps: Je Me Souviens/I Remember Dec. 6, 1989
Geneviève Bergeron (1968-1989), civil engineering student Hélène Colgan (1966-1989), mechanical engineering student Nathalie Croteau (1966-1989), mechanical engineering student Barbara Daigneault (1967-1989), mechanical engineering student Anne-Marie Edward (1968-1989), chemical engineering student Maud Haviernick (1960-1989), materials engineering student Maryse Laganière (1964-1989), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique’s finance department Maryse Leclair (1966-1989),
Continue readingYappa Ding Ding: Remembering the massacre
On December 6, 1989, I was on holiday in Arizona, spending a week by myself driving around the Navajo and Hopi reservations. I kept the car radio on a local Navajo station and I didn’t understand much of it, but when I started to hear Montreal mentioned in newscasts I
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