Canada’s regressive gender identification legislation adds legal weight to the noble argument for inclusivity.
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ahmed Sati offers some important – if belated – recognition of the need to fight against exclusionary bigotry. Jessica Davis focuses on the particular urgency in addressing right-wing terrorism. Thomas Woodley comments on the importance of having our political leaders do their
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Canadian Transactivism- Reducing Biological Females to “Mythical Creatures”.
Dr.Jane Clare Jones clearly describes the problem. Here is the link to the twitter thread as the screen captures won’t have active links. And also the quote of the day from Dr. Jane Clare Jones: “That Morgane Oger, and the movement she represents[transactivism], gives not one flying fuck about the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Go Support The Vancouver Rape Relief and Woman’s Shelter
Hey Folks. First things first. Please go here and donate to the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, they are being defunded because of the actions of a male piece of shit transactivist that has decided that men really need to be allowed into a woman’s rape crisis centre.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gender Critical Fire – Helen Lewis
Funny how that works… But then again, wanting the frocks and ignoring the systemic oppression is par for the course.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ellie Mae O’Hagan writes about the need for economic equality to be at the core of any push to eliminate the gender gap. And PressProgress highlights how the Trudeau Libs have gone in the wrong direction with tax handouts which favour wealthy
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Melanee Thomas writes that we need to change our political system, rather than blaming women for the barriers placed in their way: Ethos – that set of values and beliefs that guide our politics – is key to explaining why women remain so
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Signal Boosting – Toxic Trans: The Strange Case of Morgane Ogre and the B.C. NDP.
by Jonathon Kneeland “Morgane Oger is the Vice President of the now ruling British Columbia New Democratic Party. The BC NDP is your typical left of centre political party. They have an ambitious social justice platform, spend most of their time letting us know how virtuous they are by claiming
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Jane Clare Jones – When Your Inclusivity is Shit.
We need to insure that inclusivity does not become male dominance by any other name. Jane Clare Jones delineates between helpful and harmful inclusion: “I’ve been meaning to write, and will write soon, something on how the left’s current obsession with ‘inclusion’ and ‘openness’ and ‘smashing boundaries’ and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Social Justice?
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Intersectionality – Helen Lewis
“Intersectionality shows us that everyone could do better; that every attempt at rolling back discrimination could work harder and be more inclusive. But it should also remind us that people themselves are more than a simple label: “white feminist”; “middle-class man”; “posh boy”; “Twitter bully”. Here are some of the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Julie Burchill
Wow, Ms.Burchill just doesn’t have time for the bullshite that woke-intersectionalists have turned into a squalid art from here in 2019. Five years ago she was calling bullshite on the current empire of cud (‘intersectional’ queer theory) that is currently bolllocking up effective feminist action. From a 2014 article
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ploy Achakulwisat writes about the health emergencies emanating from an ongoing climate breakdown. And Andy Kroll points out that even in the U.S., a concerted effort of corporate spinmeisters and anti-environment politicians hasn’t been able to override the public’s concern about climate change.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: There is Nothing Progressive About Removing Women-only Bathrooms
We as a society should prioritize the safety and security of women (adult human females) over the gender feels of men. This snippet from the Cambridge Radical Feminist Network expands upon this simple truth. “Sex segregation in spaces where women are in positions of vulnerability is a legitimate and important
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: I Read the Quillette – Tanya’s Comment
Tanya’s Comment on Twitter’s Trans-Activist Decree on the Quillette I’m following the Meghan Murphy Twitter-ban debacle and one of the places where I landed was the Quillette. As it turns out, Megan Murphy has written a piece describing what happened to her and her struggle with the totalitarian ideology
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Twitter – Silencing Women, but Not Pedophiles
Good to see that Twitter has its shit in order… (aka the War on Women Continues) https://blackswallowtailbutterfly.tumblr.com/post/180961945287/deargodwhatevenisthis-trans-misogyny-a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why The Gender Politic Is Bullshit – Featuring BC’s NDP.
Watch as a member of the NDP patiently mansplains female genital mutilation to a woman who, like her mother, was subjected to said trauma. This is a bad look NDP, as one would hope we would leave the material science denial (climate-change) to the Conservatives. Entitled males know jack-shit about
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “You May As Well Call It The BGTQ Association” – The Trans Erasure of Lesbians and Females
We can all appreciate a good highly personal subjective personal identity. However, there should be no obligation or pressure to validate said identity, especially when doing so has deleterious results for an entire class of people in society. Look what happens when words don’t have meanings “Toward the end
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Charles Smith and Larry Savage write that Justin Trudeau’s use of back-to-work legislation against postal workers may have far more significant consequences than he seems to have anticipated. And Christo Aivalis examines the next steps for Canada’s labour movement – as well
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Arguing with the Woke – The Accusation of ‘White Feminism’
Jane Clare Jones is amazing. This is from her annotation of a discussion presented on BBC 4’s Woman Hour: Sally Hines, Professor of Sociology and Gender Identities at the University of Leeds, and our very own Kathleen Stock, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex, very ably adjudicated by
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