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 […]
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Dead Wild Roses: 800 Maternal Deaths a Day Is NOT Gender Neutral – Glosswitch
Go read the full post here. “Pregnant woman” is not an identity. It is a social reality. A pregnant woman’s ever-contracting rights – whether she can choose to end this pregnancy, whether she will risk imprisonment for drinking too much, whether she will lose her job, whether she will
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 800 Maternal Deaths a Day Is NOT Gender Neutral – Glosswitch
Go read the full post here. “Pregnant woman” is not an identity. It is a social reality. A pregnant woman’s ever-contracting rights – whether she can choose to end this pregnancy, whether she will risk imprisonment for drinking too much, whether she will lose her job, whether she will
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Not Understanding that Sex Based Oppression is a Thing
Well, it is picture and story time. Here is the picture – And here is the artful rejoinder provided by “blackswallowtailbutterfly” (I think, tracing tumblr sources can be tricky at times). “Was…was that it? Was that the “valid point against sex-based oppression” you wanted witwitch to see? Because, um, fail.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR Feminist Quotes of the Day – Andrea Dworkin & Charnie Guttell
Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships. “Women, under separate masters, are the most divided of oppressed groups. And men prefer a willing slave to a forced slave, hence
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Things I Notice…
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Prank Calls…
Domestic violence is an issue that deserves more time in the basket labeled “things society cares about.” I am only one generation removed from a time when women were widely thought as of the property of their fathers, then their husbands. Then Radical Feminism got into the mix and started
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How Neo-Liberal Thinking Screws up Society.
The Neo-Liberal dogma that attempts to shroud us from the realities of the world is on display in not one, but two cartoons for your edification. Ah, here we see Neo-Liberalism invade our thinking. The thoroughly naive notion that we are all equal in society and if we just acted
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Hating the Institution of Prostitution is Okay.
A big thank you to Francois Tremblay over at The Prime Directive for such a clear and concise break down of why its okay to hate prostitution and work to end it. He knocks this one out of the park in his post titled “The assumption sex is power“. “In
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: An Open Letter To Margaret Wente
Dear Ms. Wente, I thought that as a journalist you were supposed to do some research before you go writing stories. In the case of your August 2, 2014 column in The Globe and Mail, it is painfully obvious that you haven't even bothered to try. As a child, Lindsay
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Wow, Walt – Generalize Much?
If the latest utterances from Walt Heyer were the first you had ever heard from him, you could easily be forgiven for believing that the man had never had anything to do with the transgender community. Women—Simply Men with no Snoopy The real war on women today is being waged on the
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