What we are exposed to in childhood helps set the tone of our expectations later in life. Consider the female role models little girls and boys are exposed to while they are making up their minds on what and how they want to be. -Woman Hating. Andrea Dworkin Contrast this passage with male role […]
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Dead Wild Roses: Today in Patriarchy – Women, Unpeople Owned by Men
Patriarchy is alive and well in 2016. Let’s head over to the Olympics – Exhibit 1: Ooookay. Maybe this is just a fluke this isn’t a implicit patriarchal norm – we just need to find all the stories that mention a man’s status as “husband” first then his achievement… (good luck with that). Surely […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Birth Of The “Manosphere” and “Neomasculinity” – I can’t even… But the RPOJ Can.
The feminist tag in the wordpress reader keeps sending me these reality defying, stomach churning, polishing of turding, decidedly bad-will gifts. Aggrieved man children are now, during this very second, writing inspirational insipid posts about how terrible it is to be a man and how getting back to patriarchal standards is the *only* thing […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth” – *groan* – Yet Another Mansplination of Hysterical Female Behaviour
I’m not sure what the author of the review was thinking… Actually, on second thought I might have an idea – this is the liberal left dude deciding to be ‘edgy’ and take on an issue that feminists, especially radical feminists, like to rattle on about. One would hope that with a title […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Meanwhile in the Land of Patriarchy
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Encroaching on Transgender Territory? – Jaden Smith
My eyebrow arched with considerable alacrity while reading the title of this opinion piece from The Independent (‘Jaden Smith as a new face of womenswear might seem progressive – but he’s on transgender territory.’) While reading and fighting the loss of my irony meter (boundaries not being respected…) said brow remained frozen in place at […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Radical Analysis – Not Out to Get *You*
“When someone says “this social phenomenon is not always empowering and in fact is coerced” they are not robbing you of agency or victimizing you. Radical analysis of the functions of power is just analysis. The analyst or theorist does not harm you, power does.” The liberal feminist response to critical and radical inquiry into […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Misogyny and Sex Based Oppression
If misogyny was only just “hatred of the feminine” a supposedly mystic state of being rather than oppressive norms, women could opt out at any time by simply not conforming. This is so clearly and painfully untrue almost as if… Sex-based oppression exists ^^^
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Wing-Women and the “Cockblock”
Another super-peachy-keen aspect of being female in our society – saying “no” to men can get you killed. Thank you wing-women of the world. 🙂 On a much more sombre note, to stop the clueless dudes from cluttering my comment section a small sample of what can happen when women say no… A woman says […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Radical Feminism Versus Conservative Ideology
It is a comparison that is floating around more and more as the po-mo authoritarian left is stifling debate and silencing criticisms of people who happen to be against their unique vision of reality. We have here a helpful chart to compare and contrast the positions of the two parties in question. Glad we could […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Being Socialized Female – The Gender Knot
-Allan Johnson on compulsory femininity (the systematic expectations and goals of female socialization) The Gender Knot Filed under: Education Tagged: Being Female, Feminism, Patriachy, Radical Feminism, Socialization
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Women’s Agency – Let’s Look in the Right Places – Janice G. Raymond
The choice of which battles to fight reflects on how one views society and how it is constructed. Here is what going to the root of problem and starting one’s analysis looks like. “Radical feminists have never denied the agency of women under conditions of oppression. But radical feminists have located women’s agency, women’s making […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Historical Perspective on the Advancement of Women – Gerda Lerner
Seventy two years (+) of struggle just to get right to vote, and an uphill battle *all* of the way. Now who exactly was creating such resistance to positive social change? Hmm… now that is quite the puzzle now isn’t it. Those in power will never willingly concede their power. Not ever. What it takes […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Look into the Double Bind of Patriarchy, and the Way Out
Women under patriarchy often are told that the choices they make will differentiate themselves from those “other” women. That the choices they make as an individual will empower them to overcome the obstacles they face. Granted, in some individual cases this can happen, but for the vast majority of women the choices they make individually […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rebecca Reilly-Cooper: What I believe about Sex and Gender (Part One).
Ms. Reilly-Cooper has done some fantastic foundational work describing what sex and gender is and, more importantly, how many radical feminists approach the topic. This will be a long post and a feature here at DWR as it is a resource too good not to replicate. “Sex 1. Humans, like the vast majority of species, reproduce sexually. […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Talking About Gender – Debbie Cameron and Joan Scanlon – Part 2
Did you miss part 1 here? “To make sense of these ideas [conceptions of gender] and decide what you think of them, it’s helpful to understand a bit of history—the history of feminist and sexual radical ideas. There are three main questions we think it’s worth pursuing in more detail: Is it true that radical […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Meghan Murphy – Defining the “F” word.
Wow. Meghan Murphy simply and clearly posits what Feminism is about. Check out her blog here. “There are various ways the divide between “feminisms” is articulated: liberal vs radical, third wave vs second wave, sex-positive vs sex-negative, but none of those have ever seemed wholly accurate to me. (In particular, challenging male-centred or coercive […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Radical Feminism – Sex Based Oppression – What is it?
I have to thank tumblr for occasionally putting such important concise definitions at my fingertips. So, let’s define what sex based oppression and where it comes from. “As Friedrich Engels made clear, even before feminism’s First Wave, women were historically controlled because we are “a means of production”—without women, there are no heirs, and without […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Radical Feminism 101 – What is Patriarchy? – A 14 Slide Primer
All slides are from the presentation by Dr. Cathy Higgins. Given that power works best from the shadows (insert creepy *mou-ah-ah-ah, here), it is always beneficial to bring the artifice of power into plain sight so can be properly evaluated and critiqued. If one doesn’t know what Patriarchy is, then how can it ever be […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The No Platforming of Radical Feminists – Julie Bindel
Fascinating stuff. “So I went onto Essex University campus and I meet the pornographer on the train and we politely say hello. This is a man who has produced porn for years, has given awards to porn sites such as ExploitedAfricans.com, which completely pornifies women coming from the Congo on boats, that have to be […]
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