What are the roots of male violence? We can look into how males are raised in society and the gender stereotypes we inculcate them with. Observe the list in blue. It, and similar archetypes, dominate our social discourse and structure of our societies. It is from many of these bedrock
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Dead Wild Roses: Female Socialization is Terrible for Females
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Girlhood.
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Man on Transitioning – Excerpts from When the Shoe Doesn’t Fit
Go read this post in full, very well worth your time. Some thoughts from a man who underwent transition to ‘become a woman’. “Jesse, a man who once claimed to be a woman, would agree with this. Like Cari, he also found that transitioning did not meet expectations.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Even the Onion is getting in Gender
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Auntie Wanda on Gender
It is evident that Auntie Wanda has thought a fair amount on gender and how it is constructed in society. It’s [sex and gender] really not that esoteric: A girl is a prepubescent to adolescent human female. A woman is a post-adolescent human female. A boy is a prepubescent
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Female Roles – Andrea Dworkin
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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Tatsuya Ishida creates the internet comic Sinfest. Sometimes his insight hits the proverbial nail on the head. Filed under: Culture, Social Science Tagged: Gender Roles, Patriarchy, Sinfest, Socialization
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: Rebecca Reilly-Cooper: What I believe about Sex and Gender (Part 2)
Rebecca Reilly-Cooper continues her examination of sex and gender in part 2. (Did you miss part 1?) Gender 10. The oppression linked to sex begins at birth, operating through the social imposition of gender. Gender is the label that feminists use to describe the value system that prescribes and proscribes forms of behaviour and appearance for […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Threat of Sexual Violence – Being Female in Society.
“I think the weirdest thing about having teenaged boys yell: “suck my dick bitch.” at me is that there’s nothing I can say to them that will make them feel the way that makes me feel. I have lived my entire life with this threat of sexual violence hanging over my head: I’ve experienced it […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: John Stuart Mill – The Subjection of Women
John Stuart Mill wrote an essay in 1861 (published 1869) called the Subjection of Women. From this brief quote we can see the evidence that even in the 19th century there were people who understood how socialization effects people and how they behave. I’m constantly amazed that here and now in the 21st century I […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ruth Hubbard – The Political Nature of Human ‘Nature’
Clearing up some of the confusion about socialization and being ‘born that way’, Ruth Hubbard in this excerpt tackles the nature/nurture question head on. Read the whole article here. “We can visualize this kind of interaction or transformation by thinking about the interplay between biological and cultural factors that affects the ways boys and girls grow up […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dress Codes – Rape Culture
We’ll just file this under ‘pages that I need to photocopy and widely distribute’.
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Dead Wild Roses: Gender and Family Farms – I love the Smell the Patriarchy in the Morning
JSTOR Daily – News with a scholarly slant. Damn Son, I’m going to be all over that site. 🙂 From the article on Gender and Family Farms: “Scott writes that all 23 women interviewed for the paper described doing both male and female chores. Men, on the other hand, talked mostly about male labor. […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: ‘Women Get Paid Exactly What They’re Worth’: Fox New wants women to accept pickle juice
Equal pay is not special treatment, it is correcting for the inequalities born out of patriarchy.
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Black boys deserve our tears: On White privilege & police brutality
Sometimes I cry when reading the news. I cry because so many horrendous things happen to people and I can’t possibly understand why this world is SUCH a horrible place. There are countless stories about the negative stereotypes and police brutality that Black men must endure… but this really broke
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: Notes on pensions and risk
Canada’s finance ministers are meeting this weekend and a proposal to expand the CPP is at the top of the agenda. If implemented, this proposal would bolster an important public program at a time when public programs are under attack and the public sector as whole is shrinking. There are many good arguments in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: You are what you watch – Violence in the Media
I think one of the smartest things a parent can do is get rid of the TV if they have children. TV land is a violently misogynistic place that perpetuates the current ugly set of cultural norms we have here in North America. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
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