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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
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I'm not sure I like manifestos very much, even if I've made it a goal to read a grip of them this year ... for reasons. The anti-trans stuff in SCUM Manifesto is frustrating, weird, and painful for me, hence the low rating.
SCUM Manifesto is the second manifesto I've read this year. I started reading it because I wanted to learn more about Solano's sense of humor after reading about her in relation to Warhol in Olivia Laing's book The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone. What I love about this book is Michelle Tea's Forward, so I will be reading more Michelle Tea in the hopefully not too far off future.
Parts of SCUM manifesto do indeed make me cackle but for the most part, I just made my way through the book to say I finally read it.
SCUM Manifesto is the second manifesto I've read this year. I started reading it because I wanted to learn more about Solano's sense of humor after reading about her in relation to Warhol in Olivia Laing's book The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone. What I love about this book is Michelle Tea's Forward, so I will be reading more Michelle Tea in the hopefully not too far off future.
Parts of SCUM manifesto do indeed make me cackle but for the most part, I just made my way through the book to say I finally read it.
i had already had a general idea of what SCUM Manifesto was about and knew bare minimum Valerie herself. i knew going into this and i probably wouldn’t agree with everything being said (and i don’t) but i still wanted to go in with as little bias as possible and honestly? i just feel a little sad.
i’m sad because despite me not agreeing with her, people, have reduced her to nothing more than a crazy man hating maniac. people call her work the worst piece of feminist literature, people compare her to incels — an insane comparison when you think about how incel ideology has caused multiple mass murders and outside of valerie herself, all her work has caused is?? mean words by women on social media??? okay. it’s especially saddening because i get the anger. i get the frustration and the hatred. that hatred is not something you wake up one day and have. it’s a trauma response. it’s what happens when you have to live everyday with the constant reminder of how you’re a subject of oppression and just how much the word runs on your subjugation. it’s hell. you want to take this out on something, someone, but you never feel like you have the power to.
this is something i can empathize with. and what i would’ve hoped that other people would be able to empathize with but unsurprisingly, people just laugh and write her off. am i saying she’s a perfect little victim? no. HELL NO. but as a black lesbian that comes from a poor upbringing, i get ANGER more than anything else to get in this world. if people can write essays empathizing or trying to understand infamous men from our history, why can’t i do the same for infamous women?
what she says is A LOT. especially if you’ve never heard this kinda of language before but among your shock and probably horror, i just want you to imagine what can cause an oppressed minority to feel this way. and for the love of god please stop using misogynistic language to speak on her like you can dislike her without being misogynistic lol.
i’m sad because despite me not agreeing with her, people, have reduced her to nothing more than a crazy man hating maniac. people call her work the worst piece of feminist literature, people compare her to incels — an insane comparison when you think about how incel ideology has caused multiple mass murders and outside of valerie herself, all her work has caused is?? mean words by women on social media??? okay. it’s especially saddening because i get the anger. i get the frustration and the hatred. that hatred is not something you wake up one day and have. it’s a trauma response. it’s what happens when you have to live everyday with the constant reminder of how you’re a subject of oppression and just how much the word runs on your subjugation. it’s hell. you want to take this out on something, someone, but you never feel like you have the power to.
this is something i can empathize with. and what i would’ve hoped that other people would be able to empathize with but unsurprisingly, people just laugh and write her off. am i saying she’s a perfect little victim? no. HELL NO. but as a black lesbian that comes from a poor upbringing, i get ANGER more than anything else to get in this world. if people can write essays empathizing or trying to understand infamous men from our history, why can’t i do the same for infamous women?
what she says is A LOT. especially if you’ve never heard this kinda of language before but among your shock and probably horror, i just want you to imagine what can cause an oppressed minority to feel this way. and for the love of god please stop using misogynistic language to speak on her like you can dislike her without being misogynistic lol.
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Por más veces que la llamen loca, no podrán anular la valentía, el talento y la clarividencia del testimonio de Valérie Solanas en SCUM.
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