Posts like these are periodic reminder to my male readership that the way society treats you, and the way you expect to be treated isn’t the gold standard. If you happen to be a double XX’er then, mysteriously (not so mysteriously if you happen to be a radical feminist) the
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Dead Wild Roses: ‘TERF’ is Hate Speech
The last two paragraphs from Meghan Murphy writing on the Feminist Current. “The fact that the vast majority of those connecting the word “TERF” to threats of violence, death, and genocide are men is notable. The word has been offered up to those who identify as leftists, who have
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – On Smiling, Shulamith Firestone
“In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My ‘dream’ action
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Trans Activism the New (old) Male Supremacy
Just so we don’t have to play the “no true scotsman” game on the individual level, lets look at the response of Action for Trans Health London has to say regarding the incident where four male transactivists beat up a 60 year old woman. Notice the nice transition from condemning
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: More on the Violence of Transactivists – Beating Up Grandma Because she’s a TERF.
Get the story reported here. https://aunt-mimi.tumblr.com/post/165397881498/shamelesslyunladylike-daisydeadhead I’m quite done with the notion that feminism and transactivism can ever be reconciled. They are mutually exclusive concepts. Feminism is about the liberation of females from patriarchy, and as evinced as of the September 13th – transactivism is about maintaining a respectable
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Violence of Transactivists – Feminists Injured in Speakers Corner (Hyde Park UK)
This story courtesy of Meghan Murphy writing on The Feminist Current. This story highlights exactly the narrative of what the business end of transactivism is – male violence against women. There is nothing ‘progressive’, ‘inclusive’, or any other lefty bullshit word appropriated by the transactivists that apply here. This is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Snapshots of Prime Male Behaviour – Women Just Can’t Take Compliments.
I get strange looks when talking about feminism as I usually include the phrase “women deserve to be treated as fully human, just as men are…”. They think I’m speaking hyperbolic and stuff and yet shit like this still happens in 2017. :/ Filed under: Radical Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Shit
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Empowerment – What is and isn’t – ‘yourfaveisilluminati’
We usually reserve the side eye for people who start talking about empowerment. Why? Because they are usually talking about the second half of the list. EMPOWERMENT 1. Physicality becoming physically stronger empowers us. exercising your body not only makes your body stronger and more powerful, but it brings discipline
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Words Have Meanings and Facts Don’t Respect your Feelings.
“i really don’t understand how you preach that women should all love each other but not accept transwomen. i do see some of your points about men claiming to be trans lesbian and not actually be either but.. i still think transwomen are women.. i had a lot of respect
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Lierre Keith on Liberalism
“At this moment, the liberal basis of most progressive movements is impeding our ability, individually and collectively, to take action. The individualism of liberalism, and of American society generally, renders too many of us unable to think clearly about our dire situation. Individual action is not an effective response
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Lierre Keith:The Girls and the Grasses
Lierre Keith’s writing is formidable. Her first sentence is pure word-smithery gold. Catch the full article at Deep Green Resistance. “If feminism was reduced to one word, it would be this: no. “No” is a boundary, spoken only by a self who claims one. Objects have neither; subjects begin
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: We Need Anti-Porn Feminism – The Untameable Shrews
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Relativism and Biological Facts – A snippet and Analysis
Another interesting snippet from the conversation over at VW’s: Arbourist: “Humans, like most mammals are sexually dimorphic.” VW: This is a discriptive label we use in an attempt to best explain what represents the majority or general experience. That’s not my opinion – it’s a fact. Sexual dimorphism in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Combating the Regressive Left – Tildeb Steps Up.
Post Modernism keeps coming up at the root of many debates on contentious issues. Gender identity politics one of the area where the influence of post-modernism can be seen. This quote from Tildeb on Violetwisp’s blog is part of his critique of a segment of the left side of the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Bullshite Known as Gender Identity Politics – Raquel Rosario Sanchez
I’m sometimes asked why I give such serious side-eye to the term identity politics. This isn’t some sort of dogwhistle like the freezepeach moniker that gets affixed to people who want to say racist or sexist things and then hide behind free speech. Gender IDPOL is a systemic denial of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sarah Ditum – Quote: ‘What I got wrong.”
Getting in trouble for naming vectors of oppression; it is what Feminists do. Good Show Ms.Ditum. Filed under: Feminism, Radical Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Sarah Ditum, What I go Wrong
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Rights of Women
A quite comprehensive list. Female erasure is a serious problem in our society and we should move to ensure that the rights of Women are preserved. “Here is a list of the Human Rights of Women that so-called Transgender Rights are eliminating. No one is saying Trans folk should not
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: GlossWitch Goes to Town On Liberal Male ‘Feminists’
“There has been little acknowledgement of the way in which trans politics demands far more of women than it does of men, perhaps because this would require an acknowledgement of the fact that male/female remains as much, if not more, of a dominant axis of oppression as trans/cis. Why aren’t
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Spot The Male Rights Activist – A Long Tumblr Conversation
This is a long post that starts with a woman discovering that the third wave liberal feminism (male pleasing) we have today is shit, and moving toward the tenets of radical feminism (female liberation from patriarchy). Cue the dudes that react in horror to the truth ignis-divine-eleison is telling. The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How Gender Performativity is Victim Blaming
This quote starkly lays out exactly what is at stake when it comes to the politics of gender and those who follow its dictates. So no, feminism is not about being mean to the poor menz, it is fighting against the oppressive shit that hurts women. Focusing on how the
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