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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
SCUM Manifesto is controversial BUT she ironically doesn’t discuss the problem with men in any way that is different from the way intelligent and observant feminists today discuss men. Also this is a straight read on men.
Valerie needs to brush up on her biology but she makes some good points:
“Love is not dependency or sex, but friendship, and therefore, love can’t exist between two males, between a male and a female, or between two females, one or both of whom is a mindless, insecure, pandering male; like conversation, love can exist only between two secure, free-wheeling, independent, groovy female females, since friendship is based upon respect, not contempt.”
“No genuine social revolution can be accomplished by the male, as the male on top wants the status quo, and all the male on the bottom wants us to be the male on top.”
Give this girl 200 more pages and she could do real things with her ideas.
“Love is not dependency or sex, but friendship, and therefore, love can’t exist between two males, between a male and a female, or between two females, one or both of whom is a mindless, insecure, pandering male; like conversation, love can exist only between two secure, free-wheeling, independent, groovy female females, since friendship is based upon respect, not contempt.”
“No genuine social revolution can be accomplished by the male, as the male on top wants the status quo, and all the male on the bottom wants us to be the male on top.”
Give this girl 200 more pages and she could do real things with her ideas.
challenging
reflective
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La potenza di questo libro è tale (col suo titolo provocatorio e la copertina che certo non passa inosservata) che il solo tenerlo in mano di fronte a me durante la lettura mi faceva sentire un'insurrezionista rivoluzionaria. Come si può non amare l'opera di Solanas, così geniale nel suo rovesciare tutti i luoghi comuni che gli uomini hanno appioppato alle donne, con la sua spiegazione dettagliata di un mondo utopico in cui non esistono né soldi né necessità di lavorare, ma soprattutto non esistono gli uomini. Semplicemente un gioiellino.
Ultimo, ma certamente non per importanza, un enorme ringraziamento alla mia amica Domizia, che mi ha regalato questa lettura rivoluzionaria.
Ultimo, ma certamente non per importanza, un enorme ringraziamento alla mia amica Domizia, che mi ha regalato questa lettura rivoluzionaria.
hopeful
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reflective
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"Les hommes sont des Midas d'un genre spécial : tout ce qu'ils touchent se change en merde."
Dommage juste que le féminisme misandre et radical ne soit pas à 100% intersectionnel (notamment sur les questions de racisme) et encore trop souvent transphobe (les Femen on vous parle). Mais le SCUM est à lire quand même absolument.
Dommage juste que le féminisme misandre et radical ne soit pas à 100% intersectionnel (notamment sur les questions de racisme) et encore trop souvent transphobe (les Femen on vous parle). Mais le SCUM est à lire quand même absolument.
Funny in its hyperbole, but this can by no means be considered a work with any academic validity, and to be taken seriously.
Misogyny has found his opponent. Not sure how to rate crazy, but I want to have read this.
I just read this non fiction novel (or should I say manifesto) by the infamous 'feminist ' Valerie Solanas and I'm genuinely so confused.
The book is quite a difficult read not really because it's content is off putting but because it's incredibly hyperbolic and ridiculous. I haven't spoken to anyone who's read it before ,I only discovered it because I was looking up Andy Warhol (whom she apparently attempted to murder ) and I thought it could be intresting. A novel which aims to express in exact words my genders impact on our world one that is apparently infamous. But what you get here isn't worth the time .
The manifesto is consistently referencing a notion made in it's introduction that to be male is to be deficient and incomplete. That all men are horrible the way they are because they want to be female. Which had it been given the critical lense could've been an intresting exploration into the gender spectrum the dialogue of gender envy so on so on but instead becomes a catch all for any observed male shortcoming. Or even any male state whether it's fatherhood (which is equated to a mental illness),employment (equated to an inadequacy) or love( which is diminished as a need to possess). It's not nuanced at all, doesn't try to make a point. Rather it spouts jabs and surface level spiel and attempts to convey a deeper finding. A truth that one sex is hopless, inferior and unnecessary.
This book confuses me especially because though written by a lesbian woman has many instances of homophobia towards MLM. It even goes so far to say :
"love can’t exist between two males,"
Like is this book satire or supposed non fiction? Because it's positioned as an research paper but is imbued with no academic merit. No credibility to any possible research done. It's very weird really.
The book is quite a difficult read not really because it's content is off putting but because it's incredibly hyperbolic and ridiculous. I haven't spoken to anyone who's read it before ,I only discovered it because I was looking up Andy Warhol (whom she apparently attempted to murder ) and I thought it could be intresting. A novel which aims to express in exact words my genders impact on our world one that is apparently infamous. But what you get here isn't worth the time .
The manifesto is consistently referencing a notion made in it's introduction that to be male is to be deficient and incomplete. That all men are horrible the way they are because they want to be female. Which had it been given the critical lense could've been an intresting exploration into the gender spectrum the dialogue of gender envy so on so on but instead becomes a catch all for any observed male shortcoming. Or even any male state whether it's fatherhood (which is equated to a mental illness),employment (equated to an inadequacy) or love( which is diminished as a need to possess). It's not nuanced at all, doesn't try to make a point. Rather it spouts jabs and surface level spiel and attempts to convey a deeper finding. A truth that one sex is hopless, inferior and unnecessary.
This book confuses me especially because though written by a lesbian woman has many instances of homophobia towards MLM. It even goes so far to say :
"love can’t exist between two males,"
Like is this book satire or supposed non fiction? Because it's positioned as an research paper but is imbued with no academic merit. No credibility to any possible research done. It's very weird really.
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adventurous
dark
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced