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3.69 AVERAGE
Out of context if you read all my underlined quotes from this book you'll probably be quick to label me a man-hater, but this is not a book you read on face value. To reiterate another review - this book shouldn't be read as a genuine political manifesto but a impersonal psychological experience of women and non-binary folk who face a hyper-masculine world that wants to crush them.
I have a lot of adjectives for this one: It's raging, aggressive, hyperbolic. It's 'totally insane and totally right'. It taps into irrational, forbidden thoughts and releases it into something raw and chaotic. It's hilarious, invigorating and cathartic to read.
It's not meant to be palettable. Recently I hate feeling like I have add disclaimers onto my feelings, to assure people that my opinions on gender, politics race etc are not going to disturb their status quo... I just want to express myself without having to make them comfortable first, which makes this read all the more satisfying. This is female rage without any censorship.
Do I agree with everything in this book? No of course not. But will I be forever loling at the idea of calling men "walking abortions"? Yes, yes I will.
I have a lot of adjectives for this one: It's raging, aggressive, hyperbolic. It's 'totally insane and totally right'. It taps into irrational, forbidden thoughts and releases it into something raw and chaotic. It's hilarious, invigorating and cathartic to read.
It's not meant to be palettable. Recently I hate feeling like I have add disclaimers onto my feelings, to assure people that my opinions on gender, politics race etc are not going to disturb their status quo... I just want to express myself without having to make them comfortable first, which makes this read all the more satisfying. This is female rage without any censorship.
Do I agree with everything in this book? No of course not. But will I be forever loling at the idea of calling men "walking abortions"? Yes, yes I will.
fast-paced
yeah sure whatever you say girl
(interesting read, saw someone describe it as an artefact of 1960s counterculture and i tend to agree. otherwise, i struggle to understand the people treating her as a legitimate role model or those who agree with most of this. while some critiques i found myself nodding along to you get to a point. you really do just get to a point.)
(interesting read, saw someone describe it as an artefact of 1960s counterculture and i tend to agree. otherwise, i struggle to understand the people treating her as a legitimate role model or those who agree with most of this. while some critiques i found myself nodding along to you get to a point. you really do just get to a point.)
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Well, here we are.
How does one describe this book? It's controversial. Notorious.
Thinking about reading it made me exhausted; I hear "radical feminism" or "second wave feminism" and my transphobia radar goes off like a fucking siren. This was no exception. But, I had to read this. It was itching at my brain; I knew at some point I'd have to give in and read this -- this is the "crazy woman who shot Andy Warhol. But, as I got older and learned that Warhol was a big shit head, I got more and more curious about Valerie Solanas. Turns out her motivation to shoot him wasn't entirely without cause. But that's a story for another day.
This book is, of course, riddled with transphobia; transgender women are repeatedly referred to as "male-females" who are so distressed at not being superior to women that they choose to emulate a woman. I expected it. Doesnt make it any less gross, but still expected.
I think the most surprising and simultaneously frustrating thing about this book is that Solanas, at times, makes really valid points and criticisms of patriarchy, of maleness, of male violence. It's just where she veers off is at the solutions point -- her solution is just to kill all men and to mentally destroy "the few good ones" who submit to women. At times, she criticizes the influence of patriarchy upon the family -- okay! This is a valid point, but then she goes on to say that these men get so angry and desperate in patriarchy that they become gay or seek to pretend to be women, so she just totally veers off.
This book is said to be satire, or "maybe" a satire, but it's also said that Solanas was serious. We may never truly know. Solanas was very serious in what followed this book, which was shooting Andy Warhol.
Valerie Solanas was a complex figure; a dejected butch writer and playwright who just wanted to be seen and be heard-- she certainly made a name for herself. The name of course was associated with notoriety, but there's no doubt that Valerie Solanas left her mark on feminism, women's studies, and the world.
How does one describe this book? It's controversial. Notorious.
Thinking about reading it made me exhausted; I hear "radical feminism" or "second wave feminism" and my transphobia radar goes off like a fucking siren. This was no exception. But, I had to read this. It was itching at my brain; I knew at some point I'd have to give in and read this -- this is the "crazy woman who shot Andy Warhol. But, as I got older and learned that Warhol was a big shit head, I got more and more curious about Valerie Solanas. Turns out her motivation to shoot him wasn't entirely without cause. But that's a story for another day.
This book is, of course, riddled with transphobia; transgender women are repeatedly referred to as "male-females" who are so distressed at not being superior to women that they choose to emulate a woman. I expected it. Doesnt make it any less gross, but still expected.
I think the most surprising and simultaneously frustrating thing about this book is that Solanas, at times, makes really valid points and criticisms of patriarchy, of maleness, of male violence. It's just where she veers off is at the solutions point -- her solution is just to kill all men and to mentally destroy "the few good ones" who submit to women. At times, she criticizes the influence of patriarchy upon the family -- okay! This is a valid point, but then she goes on to say that these men get so angry and desperate in patriarchy that they become gay or seek to pretend to be women, so she just totally veers off.
This book is said to be satire, or "maybe" a satire, but it's also said that Solanas was serious. We may never truly know. Solanas was very serious in what followed this book, which was shooting Andy Warhol.
Valerie Solanas was a complex figure; a dejected butch writer and playwright who just wanted to be seen and be heard-- she certainly made a name for herself. The name of course was associated with notoriety, but there's no doubt that Valerie Solanas left her mark on feminism, women's studies, and the world.
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manifesto about feminism. it is certainly a bizarre read. some of the ideas are very strange and challenging to comprehend, others made sense but realistically are quite extreme for modern feminism. some of the ideas are very strange and challenging to comprehend, others made sense but realistically are quite extreme for modern feminism. it doesn’t necessarily align with the other feminist texts I’ve read, especially those that are intersectional. i found structurally it was difficult to follow where the manifesto was going. i think i would recommend this to anyone interested in unusual feminist texts to push their thinking.