We’re having a nasty confluence of sorts here, a heatwave combined with the smoke from forest fires in three of the cardinal directions. This is definitely a ‘first world’ complaint as the people with real problems like having your house consumed by wildfire are hundreds of kilometres away. Professor
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Dead Wild Roses: What happens when you pose as a man (instead of a woman) online.
The Arbourist: Listen to one woman speak of her experiences – magically becoming fully human when it was presumed she was male. Women and men experience so many things in society differently, sadly being treated as a human being is one of them. Originally posted on women's rights are human
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Mantle Passing – Arbourist out on a Lark
Greetings and good day fair readership! I have the very good fortune of being able to travel to Iceland on a trip with my choir. Thus, my regular blogular activities shall not be pursued by myself. However, the rest of the DWR team is stepping up to fill the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Taxonomy of Canadian Trolls in the wake of FHRITP & Hydro One
The Arbourist: Know your troll, an informative look at the variety of Canadian dudes who still don’t get it. :/ Originally posted on Elle Beaver: Canada’s first notable instance of a ”FHRTIP” episode has become an incendiary topic on social media and comments sections after one of the participants in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Judith Butler Explained with Cats
The Arbourist: Well, it makes it a little more clear… Originally posted on BINARYTHIS: Following hot on the heels of Foucault Explained with Hipsters, here’s JB’s Gender Trouble explained in Socratic dialogue style. With cats. All page references from Butler, J. (1990 [2008: 1999]). Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 20 More Brilliant Insights From #HowToSpotAFeminist
The Arbourist: Just another gentle reminder to those who believe we are totally post Feminism… Originally posted on we hunted the mammoth: Possible feminist spotted. My post yesterday about #HowToSpotAFeminist— which is still going — didn’t even begin to scratch the surface of the ugliness and absurdity of the hashtag. So here are
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Voice for Men Aligns With Trans and Pro-Exploitation Lobby Against Meghan Murphy
The Arbourist: Shocking, yet unsurprising. :/ Originally posted on Mancheeze: I took some time today to view the petition to fire/no-platform Meghan Murphy. I was interested in what these people who are calling for the burning of the witch had to say. Their petition tantrum has about 900 signatures. I’m
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Noah’s Ark Park would be the first theme park to celebrate an act of mass genocide
The Arbourist: Too good not to reblog. 🙂 Originally posted on Believers vs Non-Believers: View original Filed under: Housekeeping
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On sex, gender and Socialist Resistance
The Arbourist: Ah, Socialist Dudes on the Left still don’t get it. Glosswatch’s saga with having her piece published, then dubiously editorialized. Originally posted on glosswatch: I originally wrote this piece for Socialist Resistance – in response to an idea that came from them, not me – but asked to have
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 800 maternal deaths a day is not gender neutral
The Arbourist: GW knocks it out of the park with this article. Gender is an oppressive hierarchy that is toxic to women, and that is where we need to keep the focus. Originally posted on glosswatch: Last week I wrote an article on the discrimination suffered by pregnant women and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Notice of Irregular Blogularity
Children will be my downfall. I contracted a thoroughly wretched virus exactly one week ago. It has been kicking my ass all over the place as of late. Thus, posting might be a bit thin for awhile as any thoughts past drinking tea and staying warm seem quite far away
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Snow Seasonal Things Considered: Clean Sidewalks
I know what you’re thinking. “Fascinating subject Arb, do tell us more!” Okay, perhaps not as gripping the other newsy bits we we have around here but none the less a subject that shouldn’t be casually swept aside. Living in Alberta means that for three to five months of the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Happy New Year.
The last big bump has been before the long yawn that is January and February has just been crossed. Happy New Year everyone. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Happy New Year, Woo
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Laudable Blog Goals for the New Year – The Small Changes
This is but a pale shadow of a New Year’s Resolutions List. I’m not into NYR’s because the psychology behind NYR’s pretty much dooms the person to failure. Think of our habits, both bad and good, as grooves on a phonographic record. One does not simply scratch the needle
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Christmas, here in Edmonton, and in The West Wing – In Excelsis Deo
Sometimes a TV show captures a feeling so succinctly, so beautifully, so powerfully, that it becomes something a little more special. Sure it is the West Wing a TV drama – but put away the cynicism for just a bit – and follow the emotion of the moment portrayed. You
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Our Holiday Tree… and our Cats.
This is why we can’t have nice things in our house… Filed under: Housekeeping, Humour Tagged: Cats, Humour, No Tree for Us
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Chemtrails – World of Batshit
I fully approve of Cool Hard Logic’s video. Confirmation bias, ignorance and a blissful distaste for fact are all on display here by our Chem-Trail friends. Enjoy. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Chem Trails, Conspiracy, Loons, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 10 Hours of Walking in NYC – Street Harassement! Misogyny! Lewis’ Law!
Why hello there gentle readers (and a big thanks to John Zande for bringing this video to my attention). Today were going to look at one of the fundamental differences between the lived experiences of men and women in public. We’re also going to look at some of the horrible
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Voice for Men has set up a phony White Ribbon website to coopt the international anti-violence campaign of that name [UPDATE: Real WRC responds to AVFM]
The Arbourist: A Voice for Misogyny – AVFM writes yet another page on how not to be a decent human being. Originally posted on we hunted the mammoth: Beware of cheap imitations [UPDATE: The real White Ribbon Campaign has responded; I’ve added excerpts at the bottom.] Apparently, A Voice for
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: It’s Against My Religion ~ by KYBorn
The Arbourist: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – A Reblog from Everysaturdaymorning – Religion is not a Disability, it is Choice. Great reading 🙂 Originally posted on Everysaturdaymorning's Blog: My best friend and I used to say that jokingly in high school when we were being smart-alecks about not wanting
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