I can understand the anxiety about the vaccine. I can. Something that is intimately tied to our daughters sexuality is really freaky especially when we’re talking about children that we don’t even want to think about as sexual creatures.
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Dead Wild Roses: For You, Who buy Sex – Tanja Rahm
It’s a sad set of humanity that has to buy sex from another. Tanja Rahm speaks of her experiences and the pathetic nature of those who employ her. Thank you to the Antiporn Activist tumblr for hosting her story. Dear sex customer, If you think that I ever felt
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Lena Dunham: My body’s nobody’s body but mine! You run your own body, let me run mine!
“My body’s nobody’s body but mine! You run your own body, let me run mine!” -Old song that used be in the elementary sex-ed program in the Canadian Curriculum Here […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A wish for the New Year.
Filed under: Feminism Tagged: A New Year’s Wish, Body Image, The Body Shaming Industries, Women
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Doing right by sex trade workers
Due to multiple technical issues I haven’t been able until now to comment on the Supreme Court’s decision in Attorney General of Canada v. Bedford on December 20th but all I can say is it was absolutely the right decision. What surprised me was that it lined up 9-0,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Women, Peace, and Security
What a concept eh? Filed under: Feminism Tagged: DWR PSA, Peace, Security, Women
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Weekend DJ Feature: Steffi- 2013 BLOGCEMBER 22/31
I am going to write a series on sexism and the gender gap in electronic music sometime soon, but for now let’s just focus on the amazing female talent that exists. Some of the fresher faces like Maya Jane Coles are not cutting it for me. Coles is talented, just
Continue readingLeft Over: Don’t Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas..(Or Do I?)
Rob Ford’s Christmas gift advice: ‘Women love money’ Toronto mayor makes comments on U.S. sports radio show when asked what he plans to get his wife CBC News Posted: Dec 19, 2013 10:26 AM ET Last Updated: Dec 19, 2013 10:29 AM ET Gosh, Mrs. Ford must be so proud..and by
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gender Roles in Western Society
Another bit of well crafted insight into some of the subtle rules that govern our society. Filed under: Education Tagged: Gender binary, Gender Roles, Men, Patriarchy, Women
Continue readingIlluminated By Street Lamps: No Federal Childcare Program: An Exercise In Strengthening Hegemony
Canada, a nation among the wealthiest in the world, cannot meet its daycare needs. The problem has grown to crisis proportions in the country’s largest cities. In Toronto there are only enough daycare spaces for about one in five of the city’s children.[1] In downtown
Continue readingShould women run the world?
Scientists at at the University of Pennsylvania have once again confirmed what we have always known intuitively. Men’s and women’s brains are wired differently. Maps of neural circuitry from one of the largest studies of brain wiring showed that connections in women’s brains tended to be stronger across the left
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: The Staple Theory @ 50: Marjorie Griffin Cohen
The latest entry in our continuing series of commentaries marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Mel Watkins’ classic article, “A Staple Theory of Economic Growth,” we present the following contribution by Mel’s long-time collaborator, Marjorie Griffin Cohen. Marjorie considers the gender dimensions of staple analysis. Staples Theory: Its
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: "I’ve got more than enough to eat at home," Ford says
You couldn’t get the best scriptwriters in Hollywood or Broadway to come up with this line. Rob Ford, responding this morning to numerous allegations that he hired a call girl to visit his office in Toronto (among other allegations of downing mickeys in one shot and DUI), said they were
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Justin Trudeau “ladies night” event “condescending and patronizing”
Canadian women, including politicians, are dismissing Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s “ladies night” event in Toronto as “condescending and patronizing”. The post Justin Trudeau “ladies night” event “condescending and patronizing” appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: An accurate representation
This photo is missing the beer slider and the porn/video game toggle for men, but otherwise seems accurate. Alltop has an entire board filled with humor sliders.
Continue readingArt Threat: P.INK takes heathcare to an unexpected place: the tattoo parlour
As a man with no tattoos, Noel Franus is an unlikely candidate as the founder of P.INK: an organization that connects breast cancer survivors with tattoo ideas and artists. But as anyone with a family member who is also a breast cancer survivor can attest, the urge to do something
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quote of the Day – On Women and Brainscans.
Not the most encouraging study. “Princeton University psychologist Susan Fiske took brain scans of heterosexual men while they looked at sexualised images of women wearing bikinis. She found that the part of their brains that became activated was pre-motor – areas that usually light up when people anticipate using
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Sexy Lie – Caroline Heldman
A fantastic video on identifying and stopping the objectification of women. Filed under: Education, Feminism, Social Science Tagged: Feminism, Objectification, The Next Generation, The Sexy Lie, Women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – I Am The Innocent
Religious doctrine that is absolute bollocks for women, how rare. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Child Brides, Stupid Traditions, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice, Women
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