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SCUM Manifesto

Valerie Solanas

3.69 AVERAGE

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This might be the funniest thing I have ever read. So on point. 
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got through it in two bus sittings in a day very speedy but immense manifesto🙏🏻 like actually this was eye opening on radical political psychosis and schizophrenia 

Just to be clear, my rating of the book doesn't speak to whether I agree with the views of the author or not. I just found this to be highly entertaining.

I almost gave up on this mostly because the introduction never seemed to end, it's a bit unfair for the intro to be just as long as the manifesto itself. Finally getting to the manifesto was when I was hooked. Extreme, vulgar, wild, interesting, a bit cathartic.

Yet this is nothing compared to the amount of media that is out there depicting violence and hatred against women, very loudly and proudly, that make this book seem mild. Hell, there are ordinary conversations between men that casually degrade women in a way that would put the scum manifesto to shame.
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A very agressive and misandrist manifesto. A classic!

R.I.P Valerie Solanas, you would’ve loved the men crying in the review section
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Valerie Solanas really said 'fuck men'. Was this manifesto ironic? Or was it dead serious?
Whilst reading I kept thinking, she has a point. Only for Solanas to take her argument as extreme as it could possibly go. 

Don't get me wrong. I don't agree with Solanas' 'solutions' to patriarchy, but I completely understand where she's coming from. This is just to say, even if the plant is venomous, the ground it took root in nourished it. Solanas was hurt by the world, by men, and it could be heard a mile away.