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 […]
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Dead Wild Roses: Drain the Swamp – The Colorado Planned Parenthood Tragedy
The cesspool that is toxic masculinity, the sea we all swim in, had a newsworthy (aka an effect on people other than women) peak at the Planned Parenthood in Colorado. “Three people were killed and nine others injured after gunfire ripped through a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo., during an hours-long standoff […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Religion and Patriarchy – Doing ‘Solids’ for Each Other All Over the Damn World.
Welcome gentle readers. Today I ask of thee but a kernel of patience whilst I set up the topic at hand. Religion and Patriarchy actively conspire against the female half of humanity. We have to look no further than Christian Patriarchy over here and Islamic Fundamentalism over there to see the corrosive effects of religion […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Two headlines trending on my Facebook on the same day
This shit is all linked, it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. I have no words. Highway of Tears email deletion referred to RCMP by B.C. privacy watchdog Women, mainly Aboriginal, go missing, and government emails about it get not just deleted, but deliberately deleted from backups. Eight Quebec police officers suspended
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Two headlines trending on my Facebook on the same day
This shit is all linked, it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. I have no words. Highway of Tears email deletion referred to RCMP by B.C. privacy watchdog Women, mainly Aboriginal, go missing, and government emails about it get not just deleted, but deliberately deleted from backups. Eight Quebec police officers suspended
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “Why do you want to look like a man?” – Shamelessly Unladylike Speaks Truth about Gender and Being a Woman.
The stuff you can find on tumblr these days. I applaud the trenchant analysis of gender and what being a woman (performing femininity) is like in much of western society. “Why do you want to look like a man?” I wear clothing from the men’s section of the clothing store.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – The Gender of Sound – Anne Carson
Ah..patriarchy the gift that keeps on giving – like metastasizing cancer.. ;/ “Madness and witchery… are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public, in ancient as well as modern contexts. Consider how many female celebrities of classical mythology, literature and cult make themselves
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Chivalry – Dee Graham
“The effect of chivalry then is to reinforce sex roles, a system geared to the creation of dominant males and submissive females. Students in our “Psychology of Women” classes have routinely argued that the act of a man opening a door for a woman has nothing to do with sexism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Religious Liberty Post-Script We Are Not Talking About.
An interesting lesson in patriarchy. Men can be gay and want to get married. Men can’t get pregnant. [Source:Radicalfeministuprising] Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, How is this still a thing?, Patriarchy, Religious Liberty
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: We swim in patriarchal soup
Snapped at a red light on the way home last week This ad only makes sense in the presence of the following cultural subtext: Women’s anger is not valid in the same way that full adult humans’ (i.e. men’s) anger is valid. You don’t need to get to the root
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dance Festivals as Transmitters of Patriarchal Values
Dancing season is rapidly coming to close. Not a moment too soon, I must heartily add, as I will miss nothing about the hot chaotic mess that is hosting a Dance Festival. Children running, crying, scurrying about, being chased by frazzled Moms – all to the backdrop of shitty canned
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Female/Male Lived Experiences – SinFest
Another great strip from Tatsusya Ishida. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Patriarchy, Sinfest, Society
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: FHRITP! – Stay Classy Calgary Flames Fans – Example #2387461278 of #NotAllMen..
I’m curious as to how many times we need to see incidents like this. Misogyny via the expression of normative patriarchal values at it very finest in dear old Cowtown. Go take a look at the clip from CBC Calgary with reporter Meghan Grant. “FHRITP — or f–k her right in
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Gender and Capitalism in China Today, a Discussion in Montreal
On May 7th, join us for a discussion of the role gender plays in workers’ exploitation and resistance in contemporary China, looking specifically at changes in the appearance of the oppression of female workers between the socialist period and the capitalist restoration, as well as issues facing migrant female workers under
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: My Thought on 50 Shades…
‘Nuff said. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: 50 Shades of Fail, Feminism, Patriarchy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why It’s So Hard For Men To See Misogyny
Amanda Hess on Misogyny Spotting – “These are forms of male aggression that only women see. But even when men are afforded a front seat to harassment, they don’t always have the correct vantage point for recognizing the subtlety of its operation. Four years before the murders, I was
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sex Positive Feminism is Doing The Patriarchy’s Work for it.
From an article by Glosswitch published on the New Statesman. “The underlying thought behind sex-positive feminism is conservative and unimaginative, fearing a sexless void should patriarchy ever vacate the space it currently fills. And yet the truth is, those who question objectification aren’t afraid of fucking. They are not the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Difficulty of Asserting Boundaries
The lived experiences of women are fundamentally different than men. Go to This Ain’t Livin’ blog for the full post. “This is the society we live in: it’s difficult for women and people socialised as women to assert their boundaries because they were trained to have no boundaries, and consequently,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Casts Jundiced Eye toward Kia’s Dancing Hamsters
Let it be said up front that this cranky second waver bears no animus with regards to hamsters, electric vehicles, or dancing. Yet, once these elements are mixed into the toxic soup of everyone’s favourite capitalistic patriarchal construct – better known as ‘our society’ – hilarity is bound to ensue.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Women as Background Decoration, part 2. – Anita Sarkeesian
Patriarchy pissing in the punchbowl for hundreds of years continues to make things crappy, even in the land of video games. Filed under: Feminism, Gaming Tagged: Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency, Patriarchy, Women as Background Decoration
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