![]() So even though men desire sex, they criticize and condemn women for offering it, and half the time they’re not even offering it. She argues that for men, “wrong is sexual license and engaging in deviant unmanly practices while for women, according to men, wrong is any behavior that would entice men into sexual license.” (Solanas). This vulgarity and anger and aggression had one motive: to shock both men and women out of complacency with society’s sexism. ![]() How can you not hate them? How can you not question the hand that feeds you and slaps you and comes home from work and demands food and sex but wants to hear none of your complaints and insists on being the workforce in the household and refuses to hear any of your pleas for change? Her words meant more to me when I realized that a lot of her feelings were fueled deeply by personal experience, turmoil, and suffering caused directly by the hand of men. I enjoyed it, and I read it with great sympathy for her. SCUM manifesto is the inner animal of the feminist movement manifested into an explicitly fun-to-read text. I think saying it’s just angry text and shoving it aside is seriously the reason why we’re still dealing with this bullish*t today! Considering the fact that yes, it is disorganized, vulgar and some jargon can definitely be pointed out, she is speaking the true feelings of the suppressed woman. The SCUM manifesto wasn’t about murdering all the guys, guys, she didn’t even kill him. ![]() Valerie Solanas deserved far better than a brand on her hip as the crazed Warhol Killer. ![]() I think there’s nothing the world loves to tear apart more than an angry woman talking in an angry voice about how angry she is about men. ![]()
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