This from Can you Relate, a helpful guide to Rape Prevention. Ten rape prevention tips: 1. Don’t put drugs in women’s drinks. 2. When you see a woman walking by herself, leave her alone. 3. If you pull over to help a woman whose car has broken down, remember
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Canadian Progressive: Sexism: A Call to Arms for Decent Men
Guys, we have a problem. We are letting way too many boys get into adulthood without actually becoming men. We’re seeing more and more adult males around who are not men.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape – Victim Blaming 101
Let us establish something right here, right now and forever. Whenever a women says in public they’ve been raped they are taking a huge chance. The patriarchal fuckwittery that surrounds women speaking up against those that have violated them is sickening. It is not her fault for what happened
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Contraception – Why is there *any* contention about this?
Other than libertarian or misogynistic concerns, both that are as useless as pants on on giraffe, I don’t see what the problem is. Women win, their partners win and society wins. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Common Sense, Contraception, Feminism, PSA, US
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: My Launch into the Failosphere – Sparkling MRA Stupidity.
The manosphere welcomes you and your sparkling brethren. The red pen of justice is vibrating in anticipation of this particular post. Admittedly, when going into the “Manosphere” it makes it shamefully easy to brandish the RPJ. I again make mention of the insipid nature of the WordPress reader function because
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Republicans, get in my Vagina!
Ah, political satire. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Feminism, Rant, Republican “strategy”, War on Women
Continue readingwmtc: marxism 2012 program notes: how abortion rights were won in canada
One of the most exciting and illuminating sessions I attended at the 2012 Marxism Conference was a history of how abortion rights were won – and are threatened – in both the UK and Canada. I am honoured that some of my friends and comrades from the peace movement were
Continue readingwmtc: the saddest part of krista ford’s tweet: women believe it
A few days ago, Krista Ford, daughter and niece, respectively, of Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford and Mayor Rob Ford, ignited a firestorm of anger and protest. Moments after Toronto police held a news conference warning women about a series of sexual assaults, she tweeted this: Stay alert, walk tall,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Abortion Saves Women’s Lives – Anti-Choice really is Anti-Woman
This is a snippet from the Raw Story. Go there and read the full article about how the republican party of the US want to happily join impoverished nations in destroying female autonomy. The fetus-fetish crew never seem to key on the fact that women are alive and are actually
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tell Me Again How Progressive the US is?
‘Nuff said. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Materinity Leave, Social Justice, US, Women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The War on Women in the United States
If it happens down south, you know who is next in line. Support this video, reblog it, post it everywhere. The rights of women are threatened, take action and don’t let the bad guys (aka republicans) win. Filed under: Education, Feminism, Medicine, Politics Tagged: Abortion, Feminism, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive Freedom,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape Culture – You still don’t get it, do you?
This comment jumped out at me from a thread I was perusing at Captain Awkward.com. I commiserate with the author to a certain extent, as the post as it describes so much of the frustration I have to put up with attempting to educate people about basic facts of our
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: One Step too Far…
We still have far to go as civilization, when half the population is subject to shite like this. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Equality, Feminism, Privileged White Dudes, Rape Culture, Street Harassment
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Spot the Question.
Amazing comment and I stole it to share with you, my loyal readers.. It is long, but necessary. “Not surprisingly, I have a story? It’s pretty long, and I’m sorry. My husband, Doctor Glass, recently went on a weeklong workshop. The participants worked on teams, slept in a dormitory,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Christian “Anti-Choice” Site Advocates No Abortion for Child Rape Victims.
Christian ‘morals’ plus the abortion issue and dudes, you know where we are headed…. I’m not sure if I like the “reader” function that wordpress offers as a part of its blogging platform. Searching the Abortion tag seems to consistently raise my blood pressure because of beastly shite that I
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Pussy Riot found guilty, sentenced to two years in prison
In Vladmir Putin’s Russia, a peaceful and legitimate act of civil disobedience earns you two years in prison. That’s the sentence a Russian court just imposed on three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot. Judge Marina Sirovaya found Maria Alyokhina, 24, Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: My Friend Group has a case of Creepy Dude. How do we clear that up?
Brilliant post about the shit women have to put up with a daily basis. Some highlights here, but follow the link for the entire post, it is must read material. [Captain Awkward responding to letter:] “Dear Creeper, No Creeping! and Creeped Out: I’m not slithering around on the floor and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Christianity Supporting Rape and Slavery – Doug Wilson.
Thank you to Slender Means for posting this, everything below this disclaimer is hers: This is a very long post (linked below) but it is worth reading to see what some Christians still want to teach and believe about gender roles and norms, men’s rights to women’s bodies, and women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Anti-choice activists are dishonest.
A neat tidbit from the slacktivist. I’ve excerpted a bit here: “If you’re a disabled worker, then you’re protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you’re a pregnant worker and not hindered in job performance, or if you’re pregnant and completely unable to work, then you’re protected under the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Oh you Feminists – Just looking for problems.
Yep, she is just asking for trouble isn’t she? What is her crime you ask? Going outside while female. Guilty as charged. Ophelia Benson’s ironic comment on said video: “Tut. They’re just playing victim. They should pull their socks up and get on with it.” It is a test
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