The hunger for effective gay liberation movement is real. It would seem at least Mr.Thorstad is tired of rearranging the gender-identity deckchairs on the good-ship “Oppression Titanic”. “By the twenty-fifth anniversary of Stonewall in 1994, I regarded the gay movement as already mostly dead, although the commemorations did include some
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Dead Wild Roses: Archiving Before the TCult Takes it Down – Shut Up Judith Butler – Thain Parnell
On 21st January Judith Butler, Queen of the Queer Theorists, penned a spectacularly whiny article for the New Statesman, that was rather ironically titled “The backlash against gender ideology must stop”. It’s ironic because ideology is exactly what it is and a bonkers, batshit ideology at that. Butler of course,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Gender Identification
Fiction is still fiction, legal or otherwise.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Posie Parker – What Can We Do?
“A brief outline about me and a small list of things people can do to stop this [ideological] trans tide.” Resource Listing Transgender Trend 4th Wave Now Fair Play for Women Magdalen Berns
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Pronouns are Rohypnol by Barra Kerr – Banned Media Reproduced on DWR
Hey folks, the woke internet is doing it’s best to deplatform and silence critical analysis and criticism of gender ideology. Here’s the thing, if your ideology wasn’t shit to start with, it could withstand critique and still be coherent. It isn’t, thus the censorship. The following article was removed from
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A letter to the woman who called me a TERF – from Mumsnet
2017.12.10 FPFW 5696 Views biological sex, children, female erasure, male privilege, transwomen, women’s rights, women’s safety 5 min read We found this amazing letter on Mumsnet and approached the author for permission to share. It is powerful and needs to be heard. To the woman who shrieked at me that
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Astra Taylor points out that we should be far more concerned about a planetary carbon budget which actually involves inflexible limits, rather than delaying action in the name of avoiding spending on government balance sheets. J. David Hughes highlights how choices which subsidize
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, pointing out how Drawdown‘s list of emission reductions which are possible based on peer-reviewed research into current technology (which received recent attention thanks to a CNN quiz and Vox update) only makes all the more clear the political divide on climate change. For further reading…– Bill McKibben highlights the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Statement From the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter – Feminist Ideals in Action
This incident explicitly shows how transactivism is not only anti-feminist, but anti-woman, and patriarchal to the core. Women don’t move to remove funding for rape crisis centres. Entitled males do. So, no there will be no catering to your ideology, not after this. Not ever. Full statement from the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fighting To Save Women’s Sports – Beth Stelzer
Beth Stelzer speaks out against the reality denying ideology of transactivists and the clear and present danger it presents to female sporting events. “Trans activists demand we accept their feelings as science and attack basic biology at its core. Ironically, their activism invokes the fear they seek refuge from,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Tom Parkin writes about the need for workers to be at the centre of a Green New Deal for Canada: Those determined to reverse austerity, inequality and environmental damage need to help Canadians be clear that there’s a huge difference between a Green
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Decoupled from Reality – Gender Ideology
The article here. We do not yet know what the root causes of gender dysphoria are. But, if having an evidently male or female body causes you extreme discomfort and distress in social situations, then that is good grounds in itself for society to deal with you compassionately and to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Status of Biological Sex is Not Open for Debate
This excerpt taken from Jonah Mix’s essay on medium.com: An Open Letter to the Guy on Twitter Who Wonders if Biological Sex is Real Lately, I’ve seen a lot of debates break out on Twitter over biological sex — what defines it, how it can be measured, whether it exists at all.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Morris Pearl and Pramila Jayapal make the case for raising more revenue from the people with the most to contribute. And Jayati Ghosh notes that a minimum effective corporate tax rate would go a long way toward avoiding the offshore sheltering of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Friday reading. – Paul Krugman offers a reminder that the gap between the 1% and the rest of us is far larger than most people are permitted to see: (T)here’s also a big difference between being affluent, even very affluent, and having the kind of wealth
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: #Genderfree on Twitter – A response to the Totalizing Aspects of Transactvism
It is quite satisfying to see the ideological expectations reversed and watching the resulting apoplexy as followers of the current woke transactivist ideology have to jump through their own imaginary hoops. Identifying as genderfree looks something like this: So, in identifying and fitting under the ‘trans-umbrella’ one can safely
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Genderism and the BITE Model
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jake Bittle writes about rural homelessness as a seldom-discussed issue which calls out for a strong policy response to ensure the right to housing is met regardless of whether one’s community is urban or rural: While the trigger events that cause homelessness
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Debate Transactivists Don’t Want You To Hear – Does Transactivism Negatively Impact Women’s Rights?
Get your popcorn and strap in for a contentious ride.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: WAVAW – Intersectionality gone wrong – A Response
Wow. Patriarchal reversals brought to you by the WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre. “As a trans-inclusive anti-violence organization, we feel a sense of responsibility to provide a counter-narrative to this trans-exclusionary radical feminism. It’s no secret that there is a long, difficult history between feminism and trans people.” Local Transactivists lobbied
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