At the risk of getting a whole lot of Feminist hateration on this- I’m just going to say this: People who are loving this video are people who already get it [1]. It won’t make a dent on a dude that doesn’t honestly understand or recognize his own male privilege.
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Melissa Fong: Fraternity Pro-Rape Culture at it again: Sigma Chi- Shame on you
The email subject line: ”Life, love, and pussy” … Subject: Life, love, and pussy Guys, I just want to put out an early semester reminder that life is good. You’re here, you’re […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Matthew’s Problem with Reality – The Subdolous Red Pen of Justice Wiggles, yet Again.
Find your helmets and the hazmat suits dear readers, we’re going into the high back-country of mendacity where the stupid is rugged and the ignorance is thick. Yes, we’re going to go visit our dear friend Matthew again because it is so rare to find such a deluded ball of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Aspects of Rape Culture
This post from The Bewilderness explains the low prevalence of false rape accusations. “Anon asked: Tonight I was speaking with a female coworker about rape culture and how terrifying it is to live with fear of knowing that if I was raped, it’s a high possibility that no one would
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape Apologia – Drunk Women
Wow, this is still a thing. Drunk women do not deserve to get raped. Ever. From i-once-had-a-guy-tell-me: I am NOT saying that all cases could have been avoided but certain ones yes. My thing is that girls that go to parties and get drunk don’t blame themselves a tiny bit.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Unhappy Reality of Female Socialization :(
A helpful primer for the dudes out there. Thank you, Fugitivus “Here’s a situation every woman is familiar with: some guy she knows, perhaps a casual acquaintance, perhaps just some dude at the bus stop, is obviously infatuated with her. He’s making conversation, he’s giving her the eye. She
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Harassment on Translink
One of the ways that many countries offer against harassment are female only cars on transit. While this option has proven to make women feel safer, there are a few barriers such as transgendered people’s access to these cars and the fact that not all harassment on transit is male
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Rape Culture- Men become men through violence against women.
I was surprised that The Toronto Star took on the topic of Rape Culture in a researched way. “Rape culture: What do Steubenville, Rehtaeh Parsons and frosh chants have in common?: An invisible circuit of social attitudes, laws and cultural phenomena exists that normalize and even encourage rape.” is definitely a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR PSA – Men’s Natural State
Men can be better than this. Change your thoughts, change the culture around *you*; take your spoons, speak up, and when you see the rape enabling BS, make a difference. Filed under: Education Tagged: Dudes, DWR PSA, Rape, Rape Culture
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Today in Rape Culture: DC Comics
Easy pickings today as the comic book genre is not exactly a bastion of feminism. That being said, it just behooves me not to share the head slapping stupidity of the people who designed an open contest to see if they have “the chops” to join the DC team. Let’s
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape Culture – Steubenville
In response to the Steubenville, Ohio teen rape case, West Virginia U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld is launching a program to teach high school athletes not to post evidence of rape online. It’s called “Project Future,” and his goal is to teach teens how to avoid getting in trouble with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Let’s Ban Lifejackets…
Now we get to play catch the subtext… 🙂 Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Contraception, Feminism, Hard RIght Logic in Action, Rape, Rape Culture
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape Culture – We Live it – Part II
If you missed out of what Rape Culture is, I suggest you go back and look at yesterdays post. Today, lets enumerate a small sample of what is going on in our society. Specifically, lets look at some of posts from the tumblr “I Once Had A Guy Tell Me…”
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Oh pish-posh! What is Arb going on about now? You see bro’s it kinda goes like this. You dudes, especially the liberal progressive privileged ones, often don’t have a fucking clue about what feminism is or why it has come about or some of the neat things that LWD never
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Raw Story: 13 Year Old Called a Whore.
Yep, we certainly do NOT live in a rape culture. “The 13-year-old victim of an alleged sexual assault has been called a “whore” and bullied by athletes and students after two Connecticut football players were charged for the crime. The Register Citizen on Wednesday reported that Edgar Gonzalez and
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: This Global Violence Against Women Will No Longer Be Tolerated
by Eve Ensler |The Guardian/UK, January 13, 2013 The Delhi Rape, Savile, Ohio – Extreme acts of sexual violence seem to be everywhere. In response, a worldwide day of action has been called There seems to be two types of risings on the planet right now. One is a sexual violence typhoon that
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape Culture: We’re In It
It doesn’t get made any simpler than this. Yes these are US stats, but do you think it’s really all that different here in Canada? Ya, neither did I. This information is put together by Laura Bassett at The Enliven Project. Data was pulled by the FBI. Go over to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gang Rape – Women’s Fear – Everyone’s Fear
The fear women live with everyday manifested itself in one of the most horrific ways in New Dehli. “The woman and a male friend, who have not been identified, were on a bus in New Delhi after watching a film on the evening of Dec. 16 when they were
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape Culture, there is an app for that?
Building communities to protect women via technology, sounds okay to me. Anyhow, the Circle of 6 app is meant to give people, with expensive first world technology, some options. Here is the press blurb from the site. “With Circle of 6 you have a new way to connect with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Project Unbreakable – Pictures that say too much.
*TW for sexual violence. Project Unbreakable is about the survivors of sexual assault. It is a photoblog of survivors holding up signs with messages about their experiences and feelings. Powerful stuff. Abuse is epidemic in our societies, not thinking about it does not make it go away. Please link to and propagate Project Unbreakable’s message. […]
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