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SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas
4.0
Oh this is so funny. God bless you, Valerie Solanas. I hope you received the therapy you very clearly needed. Obviously this was intended to be a Serious Radical Feminist Misandrist Manifesto but if you read it as satire it’s honestly great fun. Some highlights:
• “The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.”
(‘walking abortion’ is an excellent insult, i think i might start using it)
• “He is a half-dead, unresponsive lump, incapable of giving or receiving pleasure or happiness; consequently, he is at best an utter bore, an inoffensive blob, since only those capable of absorption in others can be charming. He is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than the apes because, unlike the apes, he is capable of a large array of negative feelings -- hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, doubt -- and moreover, he is aware of what he is and what he isn't.”
• “Although completely physical, the male is unfit even for stud service. To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.”
• “The male is obsessed with screwing; he'll swim through a river of snot, wade nostril-deep through a mile of vomit, if he thinks there'll be a friendly pussy awaiting him. He'll screw a woman he despises, any snaggle-toothed hag, and furthermore, pay for the opportunity.”
• “The male has a negative Midas Touch -- everything he touches turns to shit.” (LOL!)
• “The male's inability to relate to anybody or anything makes his life pointless and meaningless (the ultimate male insight is that life is absurd), so he invented philosophy and religion. Happiness being for him impossible on this earth, he invented Heaven.”
• “The purpose of ‘higher' education is not to educate but to exclude as many as possible from the various professions.”
(okay this one’s arguably actually not satire and an excellent point)
• “Having an obsessive desire to be admired by women, but no intrinsic worth, the make constructs a highly artificial society enabling him to appropriate the appearance of worth through money, prestige, ‘high' social class, degrees, professional position and knowledge and, by pushing as many other men as possible down professionally, socially, economically, and educationally.”
• “The male ‘rebel' is a farce; this is the male's ‘society’, made by him to satisfy his needs. He's never satisfied, because he's not capable of being satisfied. Ultimately, what the male ‘rebel' is rebelling against is being male.”
(patriarchy is a disease etc)
• “Being completely self-centered and unable to relate to anything outside himself, the male's ‘conversation', when not about himself, is an impersonal droning on, removed from anything of human value.”
• “Sex is not part of a relationship: on the contrary, it is a solitary experience, non- creative, a gross waste of time. The female can easily -- far more easily than she may think -- condition away her sex drive. When the female transcends her body, rises above animalism, the male, whose ego consists of his cock, will disappear.”
• “Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male ‘culture', in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. On the other hand, those females least embedded in the male ‘culture’, the least nice, those crass and simple souls who are too childish for the grown-up world of suburbs, mortgages, mops and baby shit, too selfish to raise kids and husbands, too uncivilized to give a shit for anyones opinion of them, too arrogant to respect Daddy, who trust only their own animal, gutter instincts, who equate Culture with women, whose sole diversion is prowling for emotional thrills and excitement, who are given to disgusting, nasty upsetting ‘scenes', hateful, violent bitches given to slamming those who unduly irritate them in the teeth, who'd sink a shiv into a man's chest or ram an icepick up his asshole as soon as look at him, if they knew they could get away with it, in short, those who, by the standards of our ‘culture' are SCUM... these females are cool and relatively cerebral and skirting asexuality.”
(i was like celibate for 3 years. can confirm sex is not the be all and end all.)
• (on war): “The males like death -- it excites him sexually and, already dead inside, he wants to die.”
• “The male is, by his very nature, a leech, an emotional parasite and, therefore, not ethically entitled to live, as no one as the right to life at someone else's expense. Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.” (LOLOLOL)
•The male, like disease, has always existed among us that he should continue to exist. When genetic control is possible -- and soon it will be -- it goes without saying that we should produce only whole, complete beings, not physical defects of deficiencies, including emotional deficiencies, such as maleness. Just as the deliberate production of blind people would be highly immoral, so would be the deliberate production of emotional cripples.” (LMFAOOOOO)
• “In a sane society the male would trot along obediently after the female. The male is docile and easily led, easily subjected to the domination of any female who cares to dominate him. The male, in fact, wants desperately to be led by females, wants Mama in charge, wants to abandon himself to her care. But this is not a sane society, and most women are not even dimly aware of where they're at in relation to men.” (i believe in female supremacy ✅)
• “The conflict, therefore, is not between females and males, but between SCUM -- dominant, secure, self-confident, nasty, violent, selfish, independent, proud, thrill-seeking, free-wheeling, arrogant females, who consider themselves fit to rule the universe, who have free-wheeled to the limits of this ‘society' and are ready to wheel on to something far beyond what it has to offer -- and nice, passive, accepting ‘cultivated', polite, dignified, subdued, dependent, scared, mindless, insecure, approval-seeking Daddy's Girls, who can't cope with the unknown, who want to hang back with the apes, who feel secure only with Big Daddy standing by, with a big strong man to lean on and with a fat, hairy face in the White House, who are too cowardly to face up to the hideous reality of what a man is, what Daddy is, who have cast their lot with the swine, who have adapted themselves to animalism, feel superficially comfortable with it and know no other way of ‘life', who have reduced their minds, thoughts and sights to the male level, who, lacking sense, imagination and wit can have value only in a male ‘society', who can have a place in the sun, or, rather, in the slime, only as soothers, ego boosters, relaxers and breeders, who are dismissed as inconsequents by other females, who project their deficiencies, their maleness, onto all females and see the female as worm.”
• “SCUM, being cool and selfish, will not subject to getting itself rapped on the head with billy clubs; that's for the nice, ‘privileged, educated', middle-class ladies with a high regard for the touching faith in the essential goodness of Daddy and policemen. If SCUM ever marches, it will be over the President's stupid, sickening face; if SCUM ever strikes, it will be in the dark with a six-inch blade.” (hell yeah!)
• “The few remaining men can exist out their puny days dropped out on drugs or strutting around in drag or passively watching the high-powered female in action, fulfilling themselves as spectators, vicarious livers, or breeding in the cow pasture with the toadies, or they can go off to the nearest friendly suicide center where they will be quietly, quickly, and painlessly gassed to death.” (omfg.)
• “Prior to the institution of automation, to the replacement of males by machines, the male should be of use to the female, wait on her, cater to her slightest whim, obey her every command, be totally subservient to her, exist in perfect obedience to her will, as opposed to the completely warped, degenerate situation we have now of men, not only not existing at all, cluttering up the world with their ignominious presence, but being pandered to and groveled before by the mass of females.”
• “Rational men want to be squashed, stepped on, crushed and crunched, treated as the curs, the filth that they are, have their repulsiveness confirmed.” (SUBMISSIVE MEN OR GTFO!)
• “The sick, irrational men, those who attempt to defend themselves against their disgustingness, when they see SCUM barrelling down on them, will cling in terror to Big Mama with her Big Bouncy Boobies, but Boobies won't protect them against SCUM; Big Mama will be clinging to Big Daddy, who will be in the corner shitting in his forceful, dynamic pants. Men who are rational, however, won't kick or struggle or raise a distressing fuss, but will just sit back, relax, enjoy the show and ride the waves to their demise.” (see? when read as satire it’s genuinely hilarious! oh yeah, side note, this woman valerie solanas did actually shoot andy warhol lmfao so um… yeah…)
• “The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.”
(‘walking abortion’ is an excellent insult, i think i might start using it)
• “He is a half-dead, unresponsive lump, incapable of giving or receiving pleasure or happiness; consequently, he is at best an utter bore, an inoffensive blob, since only those capable of absorption in others can be charming. He is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than the apes because, unlike the apes, he is capable of a large array of negative feelings -- hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, doubt -- and moreover, he is aware of what he is and what he isn't.”
• “Although completely physical, the male is unfit even for stud service. To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.”
• “The male is obsessed with screwing; he'll swim through a river of snot, wade nostril-deep through a mile of vomit, if he thinks there'll be a friendly pussy awaiting him. He'll screw a woman he despises, any snaggle-toothed hag, and furthermore, pay for the opportunity.”
• “The male has a negative Midas Touch -- everything he touches turns to shit.” (LOL!)
• “The male's inability to relate to anybody or anything makes his life pointless and meaningless (the ultimate male insight is that life is absurd), so he invented philosophy and religion. Happiness being for him impossible on this earth, he invented Heaven.”
• “The purpose of ‘higher' education is not to educate but to exclude as many as possible from the various professions.”
(okay this one’s arguably actually not satire and an excellent point)
• “Having an obsessive desire to be admired by women, but no intrinsic worth, the make constructs a highly artificial society enabling him to appropriate the appearance of worth through money, prestige, ‘high' social class, degrees, professional position and knowledge and, by pushing as many other men as possible down professionally, socially, economically, and educationally.”
• “The male ‘rebel' is a farce; this is the male's ‘society’, made by him to satisfy his needs. He's never satisfied, because he's not capable of being satisfied. Ultimately, what the male ‘rebel' is rebelling against is being male.”
(patriarchy is a disease etc)
• “Being completely self-centered and unable to relate to anything outside himself, the male's ‘conversation', when not about himself, is an impersonal droning on, removed from anything of human value.”
• “Sex is not part of a relationship: on the contrary, it is a solitary experience, non- creative, a gross waste of time. The female can easily -- far more easily than she may think -- condition away her sex drive. When the female transcends her body, rises above animalism, the male, whose ego consists of his cock, will disappear.”
• “Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male ‘culture', in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. On the other hand, those females least embedded in the male ‘culture’, the least nice, those crass and simple souls who are too childish for the grown-up world of suburbs, mortgages, mops and baby shit, too selfish to raise kids and husbands, too uncivilized to give a shit for anyones opinion of them, too arrogant to respect Daddy, who trust only their own animal, gutter instincts, who equate Culture with women, whose sole diversion is prowling for emotional thrills and excitement, who are given to disgusting, nasty upsetting ‘scenes', hateful, violent bitches given to slamming those who unduly irritate them in the teeth, who'd sink a shiv into a man's chest or ram an icepick up his asshole as soon as look at him, if they knew they could get away with it, in short, those who, by the standards of our ‘culture' are SCUM... these females are cool and relatively cerebral and skirting asexuality.”
(i was like celibate for 3 years. can confirm sex is not the be all and end all.)
• (on war): “The males like death -- it excites him sexually and, already dead inside, he wants to die.”
• “The male is, by his very nature, a leech, an emotional parasite and, therefore, not ethically entitled to live, as no one as the right to life at someone else's expense. Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.” (LOLOLOL)
•The male, like disease, has always existed among us that he should continue to exist. When genetic control is possible -- and soon it will be -- it goes without saying that we should produce only whole, complete beings, not physical defects of deficiencies, including emotional deficiencies, such as maleness. Just as the deliberate production of blind people would be highly immoral, so would be the deliberate production of emotional cripples.” (LMFAOOOOO)
• “In a sane society the male would trot along obediently after the female. The male is docile and easily led, easily subjected to the domination of any female who cares to dominate him. The male, in fact, wants desperately to be led by females, wants Mama in charge, wants to abandon himself to her care. But this is not a sane society, and most women are not even dimly aware of where they're at in relation to men.” (i believe in female supremacy ✅)
• “The conflict, therefore, is not between females and males, but between SCUM -- dominant, secure, self-confident, nasty, violent, selfish, independent, proud, thrill-seeking, free-wheeling, arrogant females, who consider themselves fit to rule the universe, who have free-wheeled to the limits of this ‘society' and are ready to wheel on to something far beyond what it has to offer -- and nice, passive, accepting ‘cultivated', polite, dignified, subdued, dependent, scared, mindless, insecure, approval-seeking Daddy's Girls, who can't cope with the unknown, who want to hang back with the apes, who feel secure only with Big Daddy standing by, with a big strong man to lean on and with a fat, hairy face in the White House, who are too cowardly to face up to the hideous reality of what a man is, what Daddy is, who have cast their lot with the swine, who have adapted themselves to animalism, feel superficially comfortable with it and know no other way of ‘life', who have reduced their minds, thoughts and sights to the male level, who, lacking sense, imagination and wit can have value only in a male ‘society', who can have a place in the sun, or, rather, in the slime, only as soothers, ego boosters, relaxers and breeders, who are dismissed as inconsequents by other females, who project their deficiencies, their maleness, onto all females and see the female as worm.”
• “SCUM, being cool and selfish, will not subject to getting itself rapped on the head with billy clubs; that's for the nice, ‘privileged, educated', middle-class ladies with a high regard for the touching faith in the essential goodness of Daddy and policemen. If SCUM ever marches, it will be over the President's stupid, sickening face; if SCUM ever strikes, it will be in the dark with a six-inch blade.” (hell yeah!)
• “The few remaining men can exist out their puny days dropped out on drugs or strutting around in drag or passively watching the high-powered female in action, fulfilling themselves as spectators, vicarious livers, or breeding in the cow pasture with the toadies, or they can go off to the nearest friendly suicide center where they will be quietly, quickly, and painlessly gassed to death.” (omfg.)
• “Prior to the institution of automation, to the replacement of males by machines, the male should be of use to the female, wait on her, cater to her slightest whim, obey her every command, be totally subservient to her, exist in perfect obedience to her will, as opposed to the completely warped, degenerate situation we have now of men, not only not existing at all, cluttering up the world with their ignominious presence, but being pandered to and groveled before by the mass of females.”
• “Rational men want to be squashed, stepped on, crushed and crunched, treated as the curs, the filth that they are, have their repulsiveness confirmed.” (SUBMISSIVE MEN OR GTFO!)
• “The sick, irrational men, those who attempt to defend themselves against their disgustingness, when they see SCUM barrelling down on them, will cling in terror to Big Mama with her Big Bouncy Boobies, but Boobies won't protect them against SCUM; Big Mama will be clinging to Big Daddy, who will be in the corner shitting in his forceful, dynamic pants. Men who are rational, however, won't kick or struggle or raise a distressing fuss, but will just sit back, relax, enjoy the show and ride the waves to their demise.” (see? when read as satire it’s genuinely hilarious! oh yeah, side note, this woman valerie solanas did actually shoot andy warhol lmfao so um… yeah…)