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SCUM Manifesto

Valerie Solanas

3.69 AVERAGE

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Well that was certainly somewhere on the spectrum between turd and groovy, often oscillating wildly towards either end from one sentence to the next. 

Don't fully agree, but didn't hate it either.

I have absolutely no idea what to write about this book. Or how many stars to give.

Groovy

essential reading, even if you don't agree.

reading some of these reviews lmfao
when women say they hate men it is not the same as men saying they hate women.
Valerie is just over the top shocking to folk because she acted in the way a man would after being slightly embarrassed and yet she suffered significant harm from a man.
I don't even connect with this book and yet some folk have me defending it due to the fact they are so obtuse.

la tia aquesta estava molt boja, sí m'ho prenc com una comèdia O una obra satírica llavors és un 10/10.

This is a pretty entertaining artifact of the 1960s counterculture, brought to you from the lady who later shot Andy Warhol. Some of her dismissals of male behavior come surprisingly close to Henry Miller-esque levels of poetic obscenity (especially the line about how men will swim through a river of vomit to get to a "friendly pussy.") She also thinks that immortality is not only possible, but that the only thing keeping women from achieving is the cowardice of men. To be fair, not everything she says is absolutely preposterous, but the few legitimate points she brings up are pretty obvious to begin with.

At moments incoherent, at other moments, brilliant, this book is beyond radical feminism, it's occasionally funny and at times, despite myself, I found myself nodding my head a little in agreement.

CAVEAT - a date once browsed my bookshelf, saw this, and got a little nervous thinking I was one of those "man-hating feminists." I said, "Then why would I date you or any man?" This is like Mein Kampf -- it's interesting to read but not necessarily in your best interests to display.