SCUM Manifesto

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Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women. Solamente las mujeres que confían plenamente en sí mismas, las arrogantes, las extrovertidas, las orgullosas, las poseedoras de mentes rigurosas, son capaces de mantener una conversación intensa, audaz, ingeniosa. As always we live in a society frought with double standards where only certain people (mostly straight white men) get to have their stories told and recieve empathy, which was even more present during Valerie’s lifetime. Her lawyer, Florence Kennedy, who was a radical feminist of the time referred to her as “one of the most important spokeswomen of the feminist movement.

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What will liberate women, therefore, from male control is the total elimination of the money-work system, not the attainment of economic equality with men within it. At the end of the day, it is a refreshing read for those of us who have, and understand, an innate rage towards cis men. The focus of this edition is not on the nostalgic appeal of the work, but on Avital Ronell’s incisive introduction, “Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas. SCUM Manifesto makes it clear that many of these same frustrations have been present and wrestled with for decades. In fact, the work has indisputable prescience, not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its timepredicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against under-representation in the artsbut also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman.

All of the following information I gathered from SCUM Manifesto, its introduction, and the film I Shot Andy Warhol which was based on her life (and definitely worth watching for anyone interested in knowing more).

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The flaws come in her assumptions of gender essentialism in referring to people as the sex they were assigned at birth. I have since recommended it to many of my friends but I always preface it by explaining that parts of it are very outdated while other parts are still extremely revelatory. Gübrede güzellik görmek zorundadırlar çünkü görebildikleri kadarıyla, ellerine gübreden fazlası geçmeyecektir. There's no reason why a society consisting of rational beings capable of empathizing with each other, complete and having no natural reason to compete, should have a government, laws, or leaders. those females least embedded in male “culture,” the least nice, those crass and simple souls who reduce fucking to fucking, who are too childish for the grown-up world of suburbs, mortgages, mops and baby shit, too selfish to raise kids and husbands, too uncivilized to give a shit for anyone’s opinion of them, too arrogant to respect Daddy, […] in short, those who, by the standards of our “culture” are SCUM … these females are cool and relatively cerebral and skirting asexuality.Solanas was college-educated but filled her writing with a lot of crassness which isolated her from academia and made her more in line with artists and proto punks. A woman not only takes her identity and individuality for granted, but knows instinctively that the only wrong is to hurt others, and that the meaning of life is love. Kültür", kifayetsizlerin egosuna bir parmak bal, edilgen seyirlerini makulleştirecek bir araç sağlar, "ince" işleri takdir edebildikleri için gururlanırlar, gübreye bakıp mücevher sandıkları için (beğendikleri için beğenilmek isterler). Zoë Naseef is a fiercely sassy photojournalist, feminist, comedian, and co-host on the leftist feminist podcast Season of the Bitch.