Your Sunday dose of sense. Enjoy. Jane Clare Jones I’ve been thinking a lot about totalitarianism of late. About what I’ve started to call the ‘ontological totalitarianism’ of compelling us to believe in legal fictions, and about how that then manifests in the totalitarian political strategies of the trans rights
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Dead Wild Roses: Twitter, Trans Rights Totalitarianism, and the Erasure of Sex.
Damn. Just go read it all. Jane Clare Jones Normally when I write I make jokes. But this morning I find I really don’t feel like joking about any of this right now. I finished working late yesterday afternoon to discover Graham Linehan telling me on Twitter that Twitter had
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Easy Response Form for The UK GRA Consultation
Let’s Defend Female Rights Shall We? Madam Nomad You don’t have to be citizen of the UK to submit a response. This issue affects ALL WOMEN everywhere on the planet. I copied the entire page here so you can read it. But go to the original page to submit the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: QotD: “If power and money put you above the law, then the law is worth nothing”
Anti-Porn Feminists It was when I left Miramax in 1998 and tried to pursue justice that the scales really fell from my eyes; in some ways, the real abuse started then. I began working for Harvey when I was only 22 and didn’t really know who he was; partly through
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: QotD: “Transgender activists are fanning the flames of misogyny”
Anti-Porn Feminists For female firefighters, prejudice and harassment is often part of the job. Women-only facilities are rare, sexism is rife and the profession is dangerous and traumatic. So how does the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) deal with the myriad problems facing their female members? By passing a policy that
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dear Gwyneth Paltrow, Did the District Attorney Bring Their A game?
Jade ‘egg’ in the Vagina and other woo-based remedies, one step back. Dr. Jen Gunter Dear Gwyneth Paltrow, Once upon a time (okay, last year) you said that anyone who was going to fuck with you had better bring their A game. This, I was led to believe, was a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: QotD: “How Caroline Lucas fell foul of the transgender thought police”
Heresy is Awesome in the UK. Speaking out against the Male Rights Activists. Anti-Porn Feminists Last week, it emerged that Linda Bellos, veteran feminist of the Old Left, faces legal action for having said the wrong thing about transgender people who hit women. This week’s transgender thought-criminal is Caroline Lucas,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Male Gaze – On Males…
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: QotD: “Canada’s Twitter Mobs and Left-Wing Hypocrisy”
Anti-Porn Feminists I grew up working class, and proud. My father was a Marxist who was active in the labour movement, campaigned for Canada’s left-wing New Democratic Party, and educated me about the harms of capitalism. Throughout my teen years and young adulthood, I never questioned which side I was
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 3 Arguments Why Marijuana Should Stay Illegal Reviewed
Let’s legalize and tax the hell out of drugs putting the proceeds to addiction problems and the betterment of society.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why “Sex Work” Is Not Work
On prostitution. The Feminist Kitanu This article is a response to a series of articles published by Feminism in India, titled “Why is Sex Work Not Seen As Work? – Part 1” and “Why is Sex Work Not Work? Lessons Learnt From Sex Workers’ Rights Movement – Part 2” Earlier
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Back from the blogosphere dead to say something about binders
“The fact that in transland, in queerspeak, these realities are never discussed is evidence of how anti-woman the trans/queer movement actually is. Instead of discussing what it’s like to be a girl in a patriarchy, we offer “fixes” to girls who are acutely aware of how fucked up it feels
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ireland Votes to Legalize Abortion. What Comes Next?
Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry women? It is the music of a people that will not be slaves again! Go Ireland, Go Rights for Females. 🙂 Abortion – Abortion Clinics, Abortion Pill, Abortion Information Ireland voted in a landslide to support abortion rights. But
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Actual Transcript: Official Labour Party interrogation of a Feminist member
There are four lights… GenderTrender Dan Hogan, Labour Party Governance and Legal, Official Interrogator (twitter) Those of us who try to stay abreast of trends in gender will likely be aware of the current controversy in the UK Labour Party over men who “Self-ID” as female taking spaces on All-Women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sex isn’t a commodity! Except when it is! — Anti-Porn Feminists
It’s amusing to watch liberal feminists and sex industry advocates tie themselves into semantic knots, because they want to, at the same time, condemn ‘incel’ rhetoric, while still supporting the sex industry. Meghan Murphy at Feminist Current has, of course, got there first with a first class radical feminist analysis:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Helpful Churchy Tips for Atheists
Greetings, and a Good-Day to all of you. It’s story time. These posts are scheduled, so I’m actually writing this one Sunday ago, but I need to get this down for the Sunday Disservice while it still fresh in mind. My choir rented one of our downtown churches to perform
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: BDSM is abuse and rape culture, The Sixth Siren joined Fetlife to prove it
Oh, hey there kinksters. Your progressive nature is showing… Anti-Porn Feminists TRIGGER WARNING for explicit and disturbing content My first hour on Fetlife and I was already finding predatory behavior. I went on to start and contribute in discussions and some of the things I heard people saying made my
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Trans activist defence mechanisms (evolving list of examples)
Contextual analysis of the problematic behaviours of men who try to appropriate womanhood. An excellent read. la scapigliata It is anyone’s guess what proportion of trans activism involves deliberate gaslighting and what proportion involves vulnerable people with certain personality profiles employing immature defence mechanisms. Nonetheless, there’s a flavour to their
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “Surly Shirley” and the assault on women’s sport–then and now
4thWaveNow by Worriedmom The year is 1976, and the place is the Montreal Olympics. And it’s clear that something is wrong. The East German women’s swim team is unstoppable. Inhuman, almost. Smashing every record, every competitor, sweeping every race – then jumping out of the pool like it wasn’t even
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