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SCUM Manifesto

Valerie Solanas

3.69 AVERAGE

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Just woah!
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Marinetti WISHES. Unfortunately did not vibe at all with the transphobia and gender essentialism, but points were indeed made!
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I legitimately cannot believe anyone could come out of reading this being like, WTF IM SO MAD RN!!! Read the room? Turd sessions and that last paragraph (which made me laugh so hard) c'mon now hello?? 
Regardless of the comedic genius aspect and the potential satireness of this piece, there are actually many valid points beneath the 'man-hate'. 

Also, let women be angry about toxic masculinity šŸ˜šŸ‘šŸ» 
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Well, yes! But also, well, maybe not…
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 I didn’t realize that a lot of what she had to say about men and her critiques of patriarchal society are in their own seen as bizarre or unrealistic.
Her plans for what to do to them or society as whole, sure, but most of what she observes of men seems almost rudimentary now. 
I wish she had gone more into detail at certain points and aspects of her analysis. She brushes over some parts to get back to what either ends up in reasonable but repeated critiques or repeated gender swapped Freudian analysis. 

How can anyone hate a manifesto that repeatedly uses groovy & ungroovy seriously.

"To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo."

It is a book of wild, unsupported claims about men made by a hateful feminist (who also attempted to murder a famous man). She argues that society would be much better off if we eliminated men and money.

I don't know where to start; everything she said was absolute gibberish, almost a mockery or a poorly-written satire. Even if a pure curiosity drives you, it is not a book worth reading. The author made zero plausible arguments for anything she said—embarrassing stuff.

"After the elimination of money, there will be no further need to kill men; they will be stripped of the only power they have over psychologically independent females. They will be able to impose themselves only on the doormats, who like to be imposed on. The rest of the women will be busy solving the problems of disease and old age and death and completely redesigning our cities and living quarters."

It's very telling that from a quick glance that women have given this book high ratings and men much lower ratings.

Every woman should read this. Every woman who has ever felt rage, anger, maybe even hatred towards men, should read this. It is pure, it is untempered, it is an expression of real feeling without regard to what society, or men, will think or feel about them.

That's not to say that there aren't parts of this I found disconcerting or I didn't agree with. But that's not the point. This is a voice of something we never feel that we can say. Be a feminist, but not a man-hating one! Why? Men have fucked everything up, including women's own relationships with themselves. Why shouldn't we say that women would or could be better at running a fairer and better society? Why shouldn't we say what the male perspective has reduced us down to, and throw it back in their faces?

It's indicative of our society that when a woman writes a missive on her hatred of men, and her plan to eradicate them that it is seen as 'satire', as if she wouldn't *really* feel that way... But when incels write about their hatred of women, it is very real. Men's feelings and experiences are validated all the time. Even in her anger Solanas was disregarded.

Everyone should read this. ā™€ļø