Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas

4 reviews

amarige's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Extremely engaging satirical critique of patriarchy and capitalism, if you choose to read it with that perspective. If not, this book could pose a threat in the wrong hands.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Abortion, Gun violence, Drug use, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, and Addiction

You really have to read this as satire to fully appreciate it.

mayakinsley's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective

4.5

4.5/5

Just a fascinating book. Solanas was so insane and yet her writing also feels (in some areas) very reflective of society and the ways oppression has been perpetrated. She was a bit of a crazy genius. Unfortunately with that comes her violent energy and acts. Just a wild book to read and study - especially with its history. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Genocide, Murder, Slavery, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, and Drug use

Moderate: War

wildflower09's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

2.5

What in the hell did I just read? Trigger warning for basically everything. 
I don't even know where to begin, the book seems to be disorganized and is at times hard to read. However not all of her ideas and observations are total whack. Men are often times violent, and much more often so than women. 
On the other hand, claiming

that women are inherently men and men inherently women because men have pussy envy...

it reads very Freudian.
Also, it sounds like Valerie spent time with too many trans women and got a very warped view of them. But then again, this book was written in the 60s.
It's overall.... an interesting book, gives some insight into feminism, transphobia and the struggles of the LGBTQ community in the 60s. 
Read at your own risk.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Alcoholism, Classism, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Transphobia

Moderate: Abortion, Addiction, Forced institutionalization, Lesbophobia, Slavery, Suicide, and Ableism

itszosia's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Genocide, Misogyny, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicide