You hate to see it, but again male entitlement and fragility win out over the concerns of women. Apparently, this billboard is considered offensive and not allowed in the public sphere. Of course women who continue to fight for their rights within Canadian society, are no strangers to small setbacks.
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Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Don Pittis discusses how the spread of modern monetary theory is challenging some stale assumptions about government budgeting. And Sarath Peiris highlights how the Saskatchewan Party’s plans for severe austerity are utterly unworkable without the federal government riding to the rescue of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rugby Canada Hates Women and the Idea of Sex Segregated Sport
This from Rugby Canada – “Rugby Canada CEO Allen Vansen stated, “Our trans inclusion policy was written and developed by Sport, Law & Strategy Group, and is aligned with the guidance document ‘Creating Inclusive Environments for Trans Participants in Canadian Sport.’ Participation in community rugby in Canada is encouraged based
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jim Stanford discusses the need to ensure corporations pay their fair share for the social infrastructure which allows them to thrive. – Jennifer Garrison writes about the gender imbalance in Alberta’s back-to-school plan. And Heather Scoffield highlights how Justin Trudeau’s prorogation of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Women in the United States are being Fired for Talking About Feminism -by M.K. Fain
We won’t back down in defending Women’s rights here at DWR. If commenting on Sasha White’s thread is enough to get one in hotwater, so be it. There is too much at stake to sit down and shut up over this issue. Women (adult human females) are currently being unfairly
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Michal Rozworski writes that we need to respond to the coronavirus pandemic with investment in the society we want to build for tomorrow, not austerity to punish us today: Our economy is ripe for transformative reconstruction. The key now will be both how
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Transphobia aka Anything that Threatens Male Entitlement and Their Gender Fantasy
Women are a distinct exclusive category of human beings. Simply they are adult human females. This is the sort of shit that results when males think that through magical gender thinking they can be women too. They are not. The misogyny always comes through.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chuck Collins asks why the billionaires who have seen their fortunes continue to grow during a pandemic aren’t giving anything back to their communities. And thwap points out that to the contrary, it’s been a non-negotiable demand that even the slightest bit
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Concise Critique of Transgender Ideology
Twitter usually isn’t the best place to find valuable insights into complex topics and ideas. I do like to be proven wrong though, and that was very much the case when I saw this thread by “H”. This person precisely identifies a several key points where the ideology of transgender
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Zach Carter highlights how jurisdictions whose governments have rushed to reopen businesses in the wake of COVID-19 have been rewarded with nothing other than mass death. And Peter Hartcher calls out Australia’s for right-wing government for lacking any plan for a recovery. –
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian examines a few crucial questions as to what Canada needs to keep, throw away and modify based on the lessons learned from COVID-19. And the Globe and Mail’s editorial board agrees with Kilian that austerity belongs on the scrap heap. –
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Allison Hanes reminds us that there is no escaping the reality of COVID-19 – and any attempt to take a vacation from the measures needed to keep people safe will only ensure that it does more damage. John Michael McGrath argues that Ontario
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Iglika Ivanova examines who has lost jobs to COVID-19, and who needs public support to be able to return to the workforce. Tara Deschamps reports on an RBC study showing women’s participation in the workforce has been set back three decades by
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bad TRA Arguments #4 – Straw Hyperbole
Wow episode four already, and still more to come. Woo. This form of bad argumentation is fairly common when it comes to TRA and their allies. It is very easy to sound like you are the oppressed party when you confabulate the circumstances surrounding the issue. There isn’t much
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bad TRA Arguments #3 – ‘The Genital Inspection Unit’
One of the axis the transgender debate swirls around is access to washrooms and change-rooms. The argument from the TRA’s is simply this: A person should use the washroom of the gender (sex) they identify as. Please note I put the word sex in parenthesis there as it is one
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Macdonald notes that the federal government’s investments in the wake of COVID-19 have been necessary to keep intolerable burdens off of people who haven’t been able to bear them. Scotiabank weighs in (PDF) on the reality that the costs of inaction would
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sylvia Fuller and Yue Qian weigh in on how working mothers are bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic (and a policy response which has included no effort to ensure the availability of child care). – Peter Weber discusses how Sweden’s insistence
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ari Rabin-Havt argues that any available means of treating COVID-19 need to be viewed as public goods to be made available to all, rather than windfalls for big pharma based on its ability to control supplies and prices. – The Guardian’s editorial board
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bad TRA Arugments Part 2 – (You think that…) Trans People Don’t Deserve Human Rights (?).
Our second installment here at DWR of what those wacky transactivists have to argue with when confronted with people who will not take the knee and accept the tenets of their misogynistic gender religion. I have yet to see any feminist (gender critical or not) state that trans people do
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sarah Hansen reports on new research showing that the U.S. could save 5% of its GDP merely by imposing a mask mandate during the coronavirus pandemic. (And it’s particularly worth noting how that economic impact from a single, simple step to improve public
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