An interesting talk about changing the cultural values that are toxic in nature. He didn’t mention patriarchy, but was alluding to the concept throughout his entire talk. I’m not sure if this was a conscious choice or not, but it is interesting that a speaker who is talking explicitly about
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Dead Wild Roses: Women are Bitches
Like it is hard to find patriarchy on the Internets. It’s easy to think that the misogyny is just a feature of the those who just don’t know better, or who espouse a certain set of values like the dear followers of the GOP in the US. But no, when
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Creepy White Guys – Male Privilege on Display
The first step to understanding privilege is recognizing the various forms and flavours it comes in. If you happen to be Asian and female, well, the fun(?) doubles as you get to deal with not only the misogyny, but the racism as well. Woo-haa! (Go to the tumblr Creepy White
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Male Gaze – Meghan Murphy slams the Globe and Mail
Wow, ran across the Feminist Current and Meghan Murphy is knocking them out of the park with great articles such as this one tearing into one of Canada’s national newspapers, the Globe and Mail, for taking the well travelled low road of misogyny. I just have the highlights
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Patriarchy and the Movement, the Video
The above is the video of the February 28 panel on patriarchy in the movement that took place in Seattle at the Red and Black Cafe. Good presentations, laying out the basic ABCs of why anti-patriarchal and anti-racist politics constitute litmus tests for any revolutionary movement, while describing some of
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Patriarchy and the Movement: Current discussions and organizing against patriarchy in Portland, Seattle, and Oakland
Join comrades from Seattle, Portland, and (via Skype) Oakland to discuss together the current confrontations with patriarchy within the movement. The dialogue around patriarchy in the movement has fired up recently on the west coast, myriad anti-patriarchy groups have formed, feminists have written several statements in the post-occupy climate, and
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Video Interview with Sanyika Shakur
In this interview, New Afrikan Communist Sanyika Shakur discusses his personal social development, his time in Pelican Bay-SHU, the 2011 California prisoners’ hunger strikes, the effects of long-term isolation torture, New Afrikan nationalism, communism, and the struggle against gender oppression. In a biographical note written while in PB-SHU, Shakur explained:
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Pathology of Patriarchy: A Search for Clues at the Scene of the Crime
Another excellent essay by Sanyika Shakur, who was released from Pelican Bay SHU last August. As he wrote before his release: i was born Nov 13, 1963. Raised in South Central Los Angeles, by a phenomenal single, working-class, mother. Cut my teeth in the hostile gang culture in South Central
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Historical Notions – Women’s Rights to Choose.
Shall we wake up to some historical notions? Has history ever been kind to women? The short answer is no. Why? Because, Patriarchy. Today is not for learning about 101 level feminism. Today is calling down from pulpit the rage and the anger against the systematic oppression of women in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Frumpy, Lesbian Man-Haters? – Defining Feminism
It is interesting to watch the mainstream media wrestle with feminism and the backlash from the perceived violations of cultural norms. The Guardian blogged a piece called Why is ‘feminism’ such a tough badge to wear?‘ Then the Blogsphere reacted and some thoughtful writing took place and was captured by Slendermeans and thus appeared […]
Dead Wild Roses: We are post-feminsim, post-patriarchy and post-racism…honest.
Trigger warning for Language, Homophobia and Racism and violence in general. This is by no means a scientific finding. This isn’t even a good sample, but lets background that for bit and look at what is going on in the video. How many times do you hear the word “Bitch” or “Fag” or even more […]
Dead Wild Roses: Pornland – Gail Dines
Gail Dines is a powerful speaker on the topic of Feminism and pornography. Watch and learn folks. Part I Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Male Gaze, Patriarchy, Pornography
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: THIS, just this – Project Unspoken
Welcome to what is going to become a DWR reference video. It is going to be step 1 or make that step 1a, step 1 being gong over to finallyfeminism101 and reading, for dudes that want to talk about feminism and equality because as of late (read always) dudes seem
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Objectification of Women – Tour de Fail
Thanks for pointing that out Sociological Images. “[…][A]nother over-the-top example of the objectification of female athletes. The commercial is for RoadID, a company that sells “identification gear.” Autumn saw it while watching the Tour de France; she found this shortened version online, which she says actually features less objectification than
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape – Victim Blaming 101
Let us establish something right here, right now and forever. Whenever a women says in public they’ve been raped they are taking a huge chance. The patriarchal fuckwittery that surrounds women speaking up against those that have violated them is sickening. It is not her fault for what happened
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Spot the Question.
Amazing comment and I stole it to share with you, my loyal readers.. It is long, but necessary. “Not surprisingly, I have a story? It’s pretty long, and I’m sorry. My husband, Doctor Glass, recently went on a weeklong workshop. The participants worked on teams, slept in a dormitory,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hey White Guys… A DWR PSA.
Well no not really, but his message is spot on. Filed under: Gender Issues Tagged: Male Privilege, Patriarchy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Christianity Supporting Rape and Slavery – Doug Wilson.
Thank you to Slender Means for posting this, everything below this disclaimer is hers: This is a very long post (linked below) but it is worth reading to see what some Christians still want to teach and believe about gender roles and norms, men’s rights to women’s bodies, and women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Oh you Feminists – Just looking for problems.
Yep, she is just asking for trouble isn’t she? What is her crime you ask? Going outside while female. Guilty as charged. Ophelia Benson’s ironic comment on said video: “Tut. They’re just playing victim. They should pull their socks up and get on with it.” It is a test
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Mansplaining – The Guide.
Every once and awhile I feel the need to put information that is important into a blog post for easy reference. Today’s post is an amalgamation of the concept of Mansplaining, what it involves and how and why it happens. Let’s start of with a definition: Mansplaining isn’t just
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