Some story-makers engage in “retconning” – making new stories continuous with old ones by changing elements of the old one retrospectively. Famously – at least, for people my age and older – in the soap opera Dallas the character Bobby, previously killed off, was brought back a whole series later,
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Dead Wild Roses: The Transracephobia Deployed Against Carrie Bourassa – Appalling!
The New York Post reports: “A Canadian medical researcher who rose to become the nation’s top voice on indigenous health has been ousted from her government job and her university professorship — after suspicious colleagues investigated her increasingly fanciful claims of Native American heritage and learned she was a fraud.”
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: All the Queer Theory in the World will not help the Women of Afghanistan – “Mel T”
This letter published in the Scottish newspaper The National. It is a letter that would likely not see the light of day here in Canada where we seem to be beholden to a small subset of society that demands we disbelieve our eyes and perceptions to order to ‘be kind’
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fighting Against the Gender Religion – Radical Hag on Twitter
I think the UK trans debate has teased out the sticking points for feminists, and it might be useful to lay them out given that the battle in the US, with a very different legislative environment, is just starting. The GRA of 2004 gave trans people the ability to change
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Transgender Ideology Rests on Toxic Gender Stereotypes
This is a key feature of almost every debate with the queer woke theorists – their arguments are based on a keenly negative facet of our society: gender stereotypes. To be a woman (or man) is to like and do X. It is the at the very root of oppressive
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Holly Lawford-Smith Captures the Friction Between The Trans and Gender Critical sides of the Gender Debate
Holly Lawford-Smith’s work in its entirety because it so precisely encapsulates what is going in the gender debates. Earlier this year, the Institute of Art and Ideas invited scholars and activists to consider the question, How Can Philosophy Help Us Understand Transgender Experiences? Following the publication of this article,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: It’s Politics, Not Philosophy – Holly Lawford-Smith
It isn’t just on Twitter where transactivists go blithely on ignoring arguments, nope. Parallels exist in academia as well. Holly Lawford-Smith writing at the Quillette illustrates the divide between gender critical and establishment (woke) philosophers. “Perhaps another reason why things have gotten ugly is that the underlying disagreement is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Meaning of Gender is changing – T.M Murray
Catch the rest of the article here. “In the past several years ‘gender’ has been radically re-defined by a reactionary movement that has transformed it from a set of conventions and constraints on what men and women can be or do, to an interior mental state. Chrissie Daz is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Radical Feminist Conversations: Terminology, Bathrooms, and Gender
The claims of trans-ideology, when examined, often fall short of being persuasive. The confusion between sex and gender and the terminology involved almost always plays a large role in making their arguments functionally opaque to the lay person. In this conversation Auntie Wanda, a gender critical feminist, wades through the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Clash of World Views: Trans-ideology vs. Gender Critical Radical Feminism
The argument depicted below seems to sum up the problematic nature of the truth claims that trans-activists make. To analyze these claims precisely and coherently and refute them seems to get one labelled as a ‘transphobe’ (for disagreeing with worldview of someone else). Sorry, but that just doesn’t wash. If
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: One Example of Female Erasure – Grab’em By The Pussy
http://tehbewilderness.tumblr.com/post/151847314494/randomstabbing-actually-a-lesbian Filed under: Gender Issues Tagged: Female Erasure, Gender Critical, Trans Ideology?
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Wriggly Can of Worms – Professor Jordan Peterson, Free Speech, and the Regressive Left
There is a controversy in Canada going on with with regards to the issue of free speech, Bill C-16, and the refusal of a Professor at the U of T to use the alternate pronouns people choose for themselves. This is the video that started it all (1h). Three viewing
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 […]
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