tylermcgaughey 's review for:

SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas

3.0

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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.