Twitter usually isn’t the best place to find valuable insights into complex topics and ideas. I do like to be proven wrong though, and that was very much the case when I saw this thread by “H”. This person precisely identifies a several key points where the ideology of transgender
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Women Centric Language is Important – Rivka Cymbalist
The struggle against the Patriarchy must be grounded in a material analysis of the societal situation. The means of reproduction in society is the material basis for the patriarchal oppression of women. “Women throughout history have been erased from their own reproductive processes: shame, laws, and violence put others at
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – On the Control of Women’s Sexuality and Reproduction – Marilyn Frye
The central feature of patriarchy is Men’s relentless efforts to control women’s sexuality and reproduction: “For females to be subordinated and subjugated to males on a global scale, and for males to organize themselves and each other as they do, billions of female individuals, virtually all see life on this
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Meghan Murphy – It is not illegal…
Megan Murphy last night at the Vancouver Public Library: “Despite what transactivists claim it is not illegal to understand that biological sex is real and that it matters which is essentially what I and other women have been smeared, censored and no-platformed for saying . It’s also not illegal to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Radical Snippets – Why We Can’t Just Let Them Have The Word Woman
— Why we can’t just let them have the word woman — ——————- Part 1: General thoughts ——————- Every time a woman asserts a boundary, the echoes start rolling in… Can’t you just be nice? Can’t you just take pity on the poor fella? Can’t you just lie to make
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – ‘If sex is irrelevant, why are female people always the ones expected to cede linguistic and physical ground?’ – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “
“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: On Prostitution – Rachel Moran
Rachel Moran explains with near perfection how prostitution is not good for women and is a societal harm that should be fought against. http://vuvaliniterf.tumblr.com/post/175650874283/prostitution-clearly-promotes-the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – A hand up…
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – When Difference means Dominance – Catharine A. MacKinnon
-Catharine A. MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Postmodernism – Catharine A. Mackinnon
“I do know this: we cannot have this postmodernism and still have a meaningful practice of women’s human rights, far less a women’s movement. Ironically, and how postmodernism loves an irony, just as women have begun to become human, even as we have begun to transform the human so it
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – War between the Sexes – Sonia Johnson
“Men speak humorously, or so they say, of ‘the war between the sexes’—a transparent and guileful attempt to mislead us into thinking that there is a natural enmity between men and women, and that the ‘sides’ are evenly matched. Nothing could be further from the truth on both counts. The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Mary Lou Singleton – Sex is Biological Reality.
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Catharine A. MacKinnon, “On Exceptionality”
-Catharine A. MacKinnon, “On Exceptionality” in Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987), p. 71 [PDF] Filed under: Feminism, Radical Feminism Tagged: “On Exceptionality, Catharine A. MacKinnon, The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – It’s a Girl! -Allyson Pienaar
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