Did you ever want to see what a patriarchal double standard looks like in action? Most women understand completely as it onerous crap like this that circumscribes their experiences in society and is a daily reminder of their second class standing (in 20-fracking-18). Conversely, the class of men, who
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Dead Wild Roses: A Man on Transitioning – Excerpts from When the Shoe Doesn’t Fit
Go read this post in full, very well worth your time. Some thoughts from a man who underwent transition to ‘become a woman’. “Jesse, a man who once claimed to be a woman, would agree with this. Like Cari, he also found that transitioning did not meet expectations.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Notion of “Gender Identity” is Antithetical to Feminist Analysis – Megan Murphy
Meghan Murphy is one of Canada’s leading Feminists. This quote is from her article – “Thanks to trans activism, 2017 saw a return to old-school, sexist dismissals of women and women’s rights.” Definitely worth your time to go and peruse the entire article. What I would like to focus
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Transactivism Politically Powerless? – A Feminist Perspective
Men will do pretty much anything to blame others for their problems. Including telling a false narrative and trying to subvert the feminist movement for their own ends. Sorry for the segmented presentation, but it is the best twitter has to offer. https://radfemdreamer.tumblr.com/post/167136358093/thegynocrat-httpstwittercomgappytalesstatus Filed under: Gender Issues, Radical Feminism Tagged:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Illuminating Radical Feminist Conversations
Gender is a deliberate, carefully constructed edifice of patriarchy that is designed for one purpose. The oppression of females. Playing around with or in the more edgy nomenclature ‘subversion’ of gender roles – “I’m a non-binary, pansexual-genderqueer-demi-gurl” [wtf?] – is nothing more than a horizontal shuffle of the gender deck.
Continue readingPostArctica: Walking, Cemeteries and Gender
Great article for urban explorers of all stripes and walkers in general. And Solnit’s book is awesome! “As activist Rebecca Solnit observed in her comprehensive opus Wanderlust: A History of Walking: “Women’s walking is often construed as performance rather than transport, with the implication that women walk not to see –
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Thought Experiment – Find the Violence
I saw this posted on social media and decided after reading that it was too good not to share. It demonstrates what the actual Radical Feminist position on the trans-narrative is, as opposed to the hyperbolic stew of lies that we’re usually exposed to . Also, highlighted is the radical
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Questioning the Trans Narrative – About Damn Time.
Finally, a little mainstream coverage of female concerns with the male-centric trans narrative. Filed under: Culture Tagged: Feminism, Gender
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Filed under: Culture, Feminism, Gender Issues Tagged: Gender, Patriarchy, Shitty Transactivism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Radical Feminist Quote of the Day: Queer Theory vs Feminism
So many discussion centre around this notion. It would be nice if we could agree on a basic set of facts rather than arguing from completely different frameworks. [Source] Filed under: Feminism, Gender Issues Tagged: Definitions, Feminism, Gender, Queer Theory
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Slippery Arguments and Women at Google
You can read most of the infamous Google memo here, and for the record, I don’t think opening up this discussion should be a fireable offence, but I’m just concerned with this one piece of the puzzle right now: “the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Transactivism at it Finest – My Rules Only Apply to Others, Not Me!
Consider this conversation and then juxtaposition it with all the chatter one hears about ‘gender identity’ and ‘gender expression’. Add to your lens the notion of male privilege and how it often plays out when it comes to respecting the boundaries of females. (not) Funny how that works. http://auntiewanda.tumblr.com/post/160517895825/cecaeliawitch-this-was-a-pretty-grand-moment-and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Radical Feminism – Defining Sex and Gender.
One of the problems while debating misguided 3rd wavers, or gender/qu**r activists is that lack of definitional rigour when it comes to the terms ‘sex’ and ‘gender’. What is chilling is that these activists often refuse to define their terms, yet as demonstrated here in Canada want these same
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Naming the Problem: Gender
Well said Ms.Adichie. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Effective Feminism, Feminism, Gender
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Sex Segregated Bathrooms are Important
So many conversations start like this: “If you think trans people are all rapists or degenerates, celebrate when trans people lose rights and get attacked, and deny the sexuality of people who accept trans people, you’re an oppressor and a bigot and nobody should take you seriously.” radicurious answered:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Even the Onion is getting in Gender
Filed under: Gender Issues Tagged: Gender, Socialization
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gender Clarifications – A System Imposed on Us.
Sometimes terms get fuzzy or lose a bit when translated into arguments. Let’s take a look at the term ‘gender’. I have seen so many people argue that “gender is a social construct, that means you can label yourself as anything you want” and like that is not how social constructs
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Radical Feminist Quote of the Day – On Being Inclusive.
Women speaking out against the politics of individual identity and exposing the hypocrisy that lies at the base of much of the liberal objection to radical feminist class based politics. “i’m so tired of this liberal viewpoint that you have to include everyone at all times when talking about politics
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Effective Feminism = Liberation of Females from Patriarchy.
http://auntiewanda.tumblr.com/post/153880602961/poly-x-aawb-appropriately-inappropriate Filed under: Feminism, Gender Issues Tagged: Effective Feminism, Gender, Identity Politics, Patriarchy, The ‘women have it soooo good here’ argument
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gender and Coffee – Socialization in Action
We can change society in the (sociological) blink of an eye. Unfortunately, it is usually in service of making a buck. Highlights from JSTOR’s public section. “For caffeine addicts, a morning without a pot of coffee is a no-go. But it hasn’t always been as convenient to make coffee
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