Excerpts from Elizabeth Stanton’s address to the National American Woman Suffrage Association. “Some men tell us we must be patient and persuasive; that we must be womanly. My friends, what is man’s idea of womanliness? Is it to have a manner which pleases him- quiet, deferential, submissive, approaching him as a subject does a […]
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Dead Wild Roses: John Stuart Mill – The Subjection of Women
John Stuart Mill wrote an essay in 1861 (published 1869) called the Subjection of Women. From this brief quote we can see the evidence that even in the 19th century there were people who understood how socialization effects people and how they behave. I’m constantly amazed that here and now in the 21st century I […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #OldNews about Alcohol and Planes
A warning against drunk driving. 6 Sept. 1949. Netherlands.@trouw #OldNews pic.twitter.com/yIFzzXo516 — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) March 23, 2016 Roughly, it says: “Alcohol makes lumps. Whoever is not satisfied, can see it in this photo, which was acquired last night after a driver who was under the influence of liquor, first drove to the gate of […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women
“Sarah Moore Grimké (1792 – 1873) was born in South Carolina, to a slave holding family. As an adult she came to Pennsylvania to live. Later, describing the agonies of conscience she suffered on the account of slavery, Sarah Grimké referred to the South as a “wilderness” in which they saw nothing “but desolation […]
Writings of J. Todd Ring: US Intervention In Syria: The Next Iraq
Here is a very brief synopsis of the US role in Syria. We will, for the sake of brevity, leave aside for the moment the obvious and documented facts of the US arming and supporting of the very terrorist groups they claim to be fighting; as well as th…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Anthropological Norms Revisited – The Hunter Gatherer
Some food for thought regarding some of the assumptions of Social Darwinism.
–Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour (1986)Filed under: Feminism, History Tagged: Anthropolgy, Femin…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Female Socialization – Mary Wollstonecraft
“Wollstonecraft concentrated on describing the state of ignorance and servility to which women were condemned by social custom and training. The passionate feeling with which her book is imbued give it wide social appeal and persuasive power. […] Wollstonecraft’s acute question – “how many generations may be necessary to give vigour to the virtue […]
Dead Wild Roses: The American Revolution – Abigail Adams/John Adams Correspondence – Rights for All?
“In 1776, when the letters reprinted below were exchanged, John Adams was in Philadelphia attending the Continental Congress. Within months of receiving his wife’s request that the “new code of laws” give some consideration “to the ladies,” he was hard at work, with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and others drafting one of the world’s […]
wmtc: what i’m reading: the invention of air by steven johnson
How do we know that the oxygen exists, and that oxygen is different from carbon dioxide? Well, we know it because we’ve been taught those facts. But how did that knowledge enter the scientific record? Air is invisible to our eyes. How did humans first …
Continue readingScripturient: Decoding Alice in Wonderland
It is tempting to suggest author David Day’s lush new book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Decoded is the final word on the mysteries and secrets behind Lewis Carroll’s iconic children’s fantasy, but alas, it would be an ov…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Unravelling Our Patriarchal Legacy – Allan G. Johnston
Cultural analysis at its finest. “Cultural mythology is often used in this way to distort what goes on between subordinate and dominant groups. It enables dominant groups to avoid seeing how much they depend on others to perform disagreeable labor in return for the low wages that help make privilege possible. Members of the […]
Scripturient: Judas, a Biography
Long before Darth Vader, long before Lord Voldemort, long before Stephen Harper, Judas Iscariot reigned as the supreme icon of evil in Western mythology. Judas betrayed God. How much worse can you get?* For 2,000 years we’ve used the term Judas
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Star Wars and Snow
I brushed the snow off my solar panels a couple times on the weekend, and it helped with their production a fair bit. The full sun came out, and melted the remaining flakes off too. We watched Star Wars episode IV [8/10] and Empire Strikes Back [9/10] (Have them both on VHS), and several Star […]
Dead Wild Roses: Some Historical Misconceptions Dispatched
History is awesome! So rich, so vibrant…and mostly so amazingly garbled and riddled with inaccuracies. Here today is a modest start in correcting the damage. 🙂 Filed under: History Tagged: Historical Misconceptions, History
mark a rayner: Early Outbreaks of the Bozo Virus
Following the cataclysm of the Clown Apocalypse, researchers discovered there had been similar plagues throughout the ages. One of the worst outbreaks in history was the Great Buffoon Drive of ’47. Many thought it started with an especially bad o…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Movies that Hollywood Won’t Touch – Neerja Bhanot -The Heroine of the Hijack
This is a heroic tale of a brave woman who sacrificed her saving children from terrorists. Can you ever imagine a Hollywood film portraying this kick ass female hero’s life? … Yah, me neither. It’s too hard for the hollywood dude establishment to tart up the heroine and tell a serious story at the same […]
Christy's Houseful of Chaos » politics: reading 18th century history, reflecting on today
I’ve been reading about various wars in North America during the 1700s. Several things stand out to me. One is the idea that the governments were not able to control their people. Native elders were not able to prevent individual or small groups of native warriors from going off and killing colonists, and the colonists were unable to prevent individuals from going off and killing natives. The acts of individuals were then used to justify the acts of more individuals and of governments. The second thing is that the elites were manipulating everyone into war. Before the American Revolution, the Continue reading →
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Continue readingScripturient: 1914: My Grandfathers’ Year
As I read further into Max Hastings’ book, Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914, I wondered, as I have done in the past when reading similar books about that time, what my grandfathers must have felt when that war broke out. What it meant to them…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Short History of Wood Mountain Post
Stumbled across this video put together by Sask Parks. Some additional videos of Wood Mountain: 
Dead Wild Roses: Feminist Rage Sanitized for Public Consumption – The Polytéchnique Massacre, December 6th, 1989.
I’m probably already reprinting to much, but frack it. This shit is too important not to repeat. Go to the Ottawa Citizen’s webpage and read the entire article by Shelly Page. “I was 24, sent by the Toronto Star to write about the slaughter of female engineering students, all around my age; fourteen […]