I am continually amazed by people and their ability to be rational in one aspect of their life and the ability to completely ignore rationality in other aspects of their life. The example that I often see is people who are in evidence based professions, especially the ones that require
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Dead Wild Roses: Tropes vs Women #2 – Women in Refrigerators
Popular culture certainly has it in for women, they wind up dead surprisingly often. Oh and a link to the actual site of the WiR trope. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: DWR Feminist Wednesday Feature, Feminist Critique, Tropes vs Women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Mansplaining – The Guide.
Every once and awhile I feel the need to put information that is important into a blog post for easy reference. Today’s post is an amalgamation of the concept of Mansplaining, what it involves and how and why it happens. Let’s start of with a definition: Mansplaining isn’t just
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tropes vs. Women – The Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Patriarchy hurts both women and men. This the first of in a series of examinations of popular culture presented with a feminist critique. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Feminist Critique, Tropes vs Women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Republican War on Women Continues – Mississippi Failing
The United States is regressing quickly under the burden of its plutocratic elites. Public health and the rights of women are under onslaught by ignorant religious ideologues who espouse intensely anti-woman rhetoric that undermines the ideals of civilized society. You would think that idiocy on this scale would quickly
Continue readingExtremes in the battle of the sexes
Those of us living in civilized and modern societies now understand that the future belongs to indistinguishable gender roles for men and women. Roles that do not discriminate between the sexes. A man is now considered every bit as capable as a woman in previously female dominated industries, such as child rearing,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Wednesday Feminist Discourse – Feminist Frequency – Tropes Vs Women
Oh the legions of butthurt MRA’s and Nice Guys are trolling the comments on this particular video. “Dear God!,”they say,”what about the men?” can be heard reverberating the intertubes. Wednesday is going to be an examination of the series on video games from a feminist perspective. Enjoy the ride.
Continue readingArt Threat: Pioneer Ladies [of the Evening] – Photos of incarcerated women are transformed
An exhibition at PLATFORM Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts in Winnipeg is testing the sexualized and gendered boundaries of our Canadian history. Curator Dr. Laurie K. Bertram has taken archival mugshots of Western Canadian female sex trade workers, taken from the Winnipeg Police Museum Archive, and reworked them into
Continue readingTerahertz: New Abortion Caravan Counter-Protest in photos
On May 29, 2012, anti-choicers led by the Calgary-based Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform launched their “New Abortion Caravan” in Vancouver. Their goal is to drive their graphic anti-abortion trucks across the country, descending on Ottawa for Canada Day. After word of this was picked up by the pro-choice community,
Continue readingThings Are Good: A New Wave of Feminism in Concert with OWS?
Megan Boler has a new article on the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement and the current state of feminism and it’s a good read. She looks at the relationships between the feminist movement and the concerns of the people involved in OWS activities. But the tide seems to have turned.
Continue readingbastard.logic: Reappropriating Mother’s Day
Forget Hallmark and Big Flora — Mother’s Day is (and always has been) for radicals: Mother’s Day began in America in 1870 when Julia Ward Howe wrote the Mother’s Day Proclamation. Written in response to the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, her proclamation called on women to use
Continue readingFive of Five: Sunday Night
Well done. Via Memwhore.
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Are Canadian Women Also Radical Enemies of the State?
In an orgy of axe swinging and program bludgeoning last week, the federal government set their sights on taking a clean shot at the health and well-being of Canadian women. With all of the vitriol and paternalistic reigning in recently, one can’t help but wonder if the government has lumped
Continue readingWomen in politics: the “squeeze” factor
As any student of Canadian politics knows, Ellen Fairclough was Canada’s first female cabinet minister, appointed by Diefenbaker in 1957 and serving until her defeat as MP for Hamilton West in 1963. I have mixed feelings about Fairclough’s politics: she did good work on the immigration file, but she was
Continue readingWhy women need to get over guys liking our looks – A Liberal Female Perspective
I’m really starting to get sick and tired of some women whining about a guy looking and commenting about females because they’re pretty or their breasts are nice. It’s not objectifying of them to do that. It’s natural for a man to see an attractive female and want to look
Continue readingArt Threat: Storytelling in post-Mubarak Egypt – Al Jazeera short-doc on performance artist Abeer Soliman
Al Jazeera’s Artscape presents a wonderful short documentary on Abeer Soliman, an Egyptian storyteller and performance artist whose work changed after the uprising.
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: On Feminism
I am proud to call myself a feminist. I take it as a first principle needing no further derivation that all people deserve equality of freedom and opportunity, and that it is both morally right and morally obligatory to fight for this in society. Feminism, to me, is simply the
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: A Handmaid’s Tale: Intended as Fiction, Not a Guidebook
I have become very weary of being perpetually assaulted, all day long, and being utterly helpless to defend myself from the onslaught. If it isn’t advertisers shoving things I don’t want down my throat, it’s the bank ramming their hands in my pockets. The media fills my eyes and ears
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Whip the Vote, Mr. Rae (#lpc #prochoice)
Citation: R. v. Morgentaler, [1988] 1 S.C.R. 30 Date: January 28, 1988 State interference with bodily integrity and serious state-imposed psychological stress, at least in the criminal law context, constitutes a breach of security of the person. … Liberty in a free and democratic society does not require the state
Continue readingwmtc: m312: it doesn’t matter when life begins. that’s not the issue.
When does life begin? Perhaps this is a question for philosophers, or theologians. Perhaps it is a question for scientists. It is not a question for Parliamentarians. It is not a question for government. There are many different kinds of life. There are non-human animals. Some of these are eaten
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