This is a difficult thing for me to figure out, and I’m not sure I’m quite firm on anything yet, but I’ve been completely fascinated by the discussions around Jordan Peterson, the University of Toronto prof who refuses to use individually-determined gender pronouns, so I’ll try to narrow down what
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A Puff of Absurdity: On Gender Pronouns and Peterson’s Case
This is a difficult thing for me to figure out, and I’m not sure I’m quite firm on anything yet, but I’ve been completely fascinated by the discussions around Jordan Peterson, the University of Toronto prof who refuses to use individually-determined gender pronouns, so I’ll try to narrow down what
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Conversation on ‘Gatekeeping’ and Gender
http://auntiewanda.tumblr.com/post/153664078226/you-should-learn-more-about-radical-feminism Interesting conclusion – if gender is completely subjective, personal quality, how can it be meaningful in a descriptive sense? It comes back down to the utility of meanings that are based in the material reality of the situation. Women = adult human female is an objective fact, and I
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The claims of trans-ideology, when examined, often fall short of being persuasive. The confusion between sex and gender and the terminology involved almost always plays a large role in making their arguments functionally opaque to the lay person. In this conversation Auntie Wanda, a gender critical feminist, wades through the
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I completely need this book. Filed under: Culture, Feminism Tagged: Female Erasure, Gender, Gender Roles, Radical Feminism, Society, The Scourage of Idenity Politics
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Defining Your Terms is Important – Sex and Gender
How weird is it that such basic concepts can cause so much furor? It is almost like a certain category of men have decided they strongly dislike a particular objective fact, and expect the rest of the world to fall in line with their new orthodoxy (because they say so).
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Notes from the gender debate that is ongoing in society. I think that the sooner we recognize that gender is a harmful social construct and move toward removing it from society, the better off we’ll be. http://auntiewanda.tumblr.com/post/151164241261/sassysublimetastemaker-girlsmoonsandstars Filed under: Feminism, Gender Issues Tagged: Feminists, Gender, Genderists, sex
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Missing the Girls
“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen (Everyone’s using that bit today, but they always skip the first part of the verse.) As I started down the road towards mastectomy-ville, I wondered
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – On Gender – Sheila Jeffreys
“Gender functions as an ideological system that justifies and organizes women’s subordination and for this reason it must be dismantled. Women and girls cannot access full humanity and the rights and opportunities of full human status while the idea that there are personality traits and appearance norms that are naturally
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Definitions for Indefinite Times – Transracial?
We can file this under ‘words have meanings’ and meanings are important. Sex: a binary that refers to which reproductive organs you have (males have sperm, females have eggs) Race: a system that organizes people based on melanin levels in the skin and place of origin (labeling varies, but
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Womanhood – Toomanymurlocs
https://toomanymurlocs.tumblr.com/post/151123235220/on-womanhood Filed under: Gender Issues Tagged: Gender, Gender Critical Feminism, Radical Feminism, Womanhood
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – On Gender – Auntie Wanda
“No one has a gender. It’s a social construct, you said that yourself, anon. And it is a social construct: it’s arbitrary rules of behavior assigned to people based on their sex and reinforced by social systems. People are socially punished for not conforming to it. All “trans” is is when
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Story Time: Affirming the Status-quo and the Utility of Identity Politics
A conversation gleaned from Stardate Whenever – “I was chatting with one of my managers and he told me he does drag performance and identifies as genderqueer. Which, you know, obviously I disagree with that terminology. He had just been reprimanded at work for wearing makeup. In the same
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Civil Gender Critical Discussion?
The following is an exchange on tumblr between littlepumkinprincess and auntiewanda. I have changed the formatting a bit for the sake of readability, but their words and ideas remain the same. Many of the arguments that occur between gender critical feminists and trans-advocates play out in this exchange. It
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gender not Mysterious – Go Figure.
Watch as the mythology of gender is stripped away quickly and efficiently by AuntieWanda. http://auntiewanda.tumblr.com/post/150945830601/gender-roles-and-gender-arent-the-same-thing Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Gender, Gender Critical Feminism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Auntie Wanda on Gender
It is evident that Auntie Wanda has thought a fair amount on gender and how it is constructed in society. It’s [sex and gender] really not that esoteric: A girl is a prepubescent to adolescent human female. A woman is a post-adolescent human female. A boy is a prepubescent
Continue readingThings Are Good: Men Shouldn’t Worry About Being Breadwinners
Gender stereotypes and expectations aren’t good for anybody, and there’s more and more evidence that men who worry about having to be the primary income earners hurts their health. The old way of thinking that a man had to earn more than his partner in a heterosexual relationship no longer makes sense. Thanks to the […]
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Bathroom Conundrum in Public School
“I don’t want to see penis when I go to the washroom; he just stands there with the stall open and it makes me uncomfortable.“. That was the quotable bit from a conversation I had with a female student I happened to be teaching at an elementary school this week. We were walking in […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rebecca Reilly-Cooper: What I believe about Sex and Gender (Part 2)
Rebecca Reilly-Cooper continues her examination of sex and gender in part 2. (Did you miss part 1?) Gender 10. The oppression linked to sex begins at birth, operating through the social imposition of gender. Gender is the label that feminists use to describe the value system that prescribes and proscribes forms of behaviour and appearance for […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rebecca Reilly-Cooper: What I believe about Sex and Gender (Part One).
Ms. Reilly-Cooper has done some fantastic foundational work describing what sex and gender is and, more importantly, how many radical feminists approach the topic. This will be a long post and a feature here at DWR as it is a resource too good not to replicate. “Sex 1. Humans, like the vast majority of species, reproduce sexually. […]
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