Religions from either side of the aisle are terrible.
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Dead Wild Roses: Once, I Was a Peace Advocate. Now, I Have No Idealism Left – Ilan Benjamin
The Western world needs to give its collective head a shake and *not* celebrate terrorism. The conclusion from Benjamin’s essay published on The Free Press. “How wrong I was. This past week, as over 1,300 Jews were slaughtered, the most murderous attack on Jews since the Holocaust, I saw the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Peanuts!
Much ado about Nut-thing… 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What Can Based Feminists Do to Combat Gender Ideology?
Some sound advice from the author Mama Ain’t Playin’ Stopping the infiltration of gender ideology into our schools and institutions will require people to work together and support each other in their defense of well…, the material reality we all share. Start small and be honest with yourself and those
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – One Day More..
This makes me think humanity has a chance. Through music and song, we are one.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Solar Panels on the Roof – Meh at the moment.
The future cost of utilities was one of the reasons why I installed solar panels on my roof. I wanted to take action to protect myself from the volatility of the energy market and maybe take a small step in the green direction Thankfully at the time of installation, there
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Secular Christmas Celebration – Drinking White Wine in the Sun
Tim Minchin’s classic Christmas tune. Enjoy your time with your family and friends while you can. My dear readers and commentators thank you for staying with me and sharing your thoughts and opinions. You are really quite a swell bunch. 🙂 Happy Holidays to you all and my best wishes
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Open Letter to Edinburgh Rape Crisis Staff and Trustees — Sister Outrider
With thanks to Jean Hatchet for her feminist documentation and transcription work. This one is for Sally, and all the other women in too vulnerable a position to publicly advocate for single-sex services. Dear Edinburgh Rape Crisis, My name is Claire Heuchan. I’m a survivor of men’s sexual violence. And
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Diane Shaw on Trans “faith”
Oh, hey another good Sunday post! The gender religion, like traditional religions is founded on bullshit. aunt polly's rants Back in June, I read an blog post by Diana Shaw on the “Women are Human” blog that interested me but at the time, I was too busy to write a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Alberta Races to be a Covid Epicentre – Airdrie-East MLA Angela Pitt
I am ashamed of my province. There so much stupid going on around the pandemic and getting vaccinated. The stupid people, of course, are now clogging up the ICU’s province wide bumping other life saving procedures and surgeries off the table. We face a nursing shortage and devastating work attrition
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: No F*ng Way “Alana” is a WOMAN.
Another example of the colonization of female space in society with progressive support. Progressives must be all a flutter as they have enabled the beating of a woman by a man in a supposed ‘fair’ fight. aunt polly's rants This is so WRONG. Transgender Alana McLaughlin “won” “her” debut in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Trauma-Informed Services for Women Subjected to Men’s Violence Must be Single-Sex Services
But women-only spaces in Rape Crisis Centres, refuges, women’s centres or women-only buildings or events, etc are spaces where women are not required to make all the mental self-adjustments to function in the presence of men. Women survivors and feminists (many of us both) created these spaces because we know
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Two takes on whiteness
shakemyheadhollow Some decades ago on a daytime TV talk show – I’ll never find it – the African-American public intellectual, Cornel West, was seated next to some Ku Klux Klan members, and the host said something about the KKK representing white people. West gestured at the white supremacists next to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Broken Clock
is right twice a day. Or so they say. In this case Jason Kenney actually gets something right. This is of course to people protesting the fencing off of a church (from what I understand). These people decided to trespass on Enoch Cree Nation land, threaten and assault their members,
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