Scum Manifesto

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Viva Los Muertos!", an episode of the animated comedy TV series The Venture Bros., features a character named Val who directly quotes the SCUM Manifesto throughout the episode. [121] Winkiel (1999), p.69 (Solanas "imagin[ed]... a world run by women") and see p. 79 ("a better world run by women").

Dederer, Claire, Cutting Remarks, in The Nation, Jun. 14, 2004 (book review), as accessed Jun. 29, 2011 ("[t]he Manifesto is a call to rid the planet of men.")

Solanas is quoted in the sleeve notes of the Manic Street Preachers debut album Generation Terrorists. Solanas directly inspired the Manic Street Preachers song " Of Walking Abortion" from their third album The Holy Bible, with the song title being taken from Solanas' work. [124] Liverpool punk band Big in Japan composed the song "Society for Cutting Up Men" directly inspired by the manifesto. [125]

Greer (1971), p.99 (Solanas said "that men covet all that women are, seeking degradation and effeminization at their hands.") and see p. 81, p. 99 n. 6 citing Solanas (1968), p.73. Many females would, even assuming complete economic equality between the sexes, prefer living with males or peddling their asses on the street, thus having most of their time for themselves, to spending many hours of their days doing boring, stultifying, non-creative work for someone else, functioning as less than animals, as machines, or, at best – if able to get a “good” job – co-managing the shitpile. What will liberate women, therefore, from male control is the total elimination of the money-work system, not the attainment of economic equality with men within it. Avery: You have credited Valerie Solanas and her 1967 SCUM Manifesto as your inspiration. The SCUM Manifesto contends that men have ruined the world and that it is up to women to fix it. The formation of the Society for Cutting Up Men is suggested to solve this problem. Will you elaborate on your relationship with this text and how you have interpreted its main positions in your own work?DeMonte, Alexandra (2010). "Feminism: second-wave". In Roger Chapman (ed.). Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-1-84972-713-6. Morgan, Robin, ed., Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From the Women's Liberation Movement (N.Y.: Random House, 1st ed. 1970), p. 514. Ti-Grace Atkinson, the New York chapter president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), described Solanas as "the first outstanding champion of women's rights" [66] and "a 'heroine' of the feminist movement," [67] [68] and "smuggled [her manifesto]... out of the mental hospital where Solanas was confined." [67] [68] According to Betty Friedan, the NOW board rejected Atkinson's statement. [68] Atkinson left NOW and founded another feminist organization. [69] According to Friedan, "the media continued to treat Ti-Grace as a leader of the women's movement, despite its repudiation of her." [70] Kennedy, another NOW member, called Solanas "one of the most important spokeswomen of the feminist movement." [19] [71] Biet, Christian; Olivier Neveux (2007). Une histoire du spectacle militant: théâtre et cinéma militants 1966-1981 (in French). Entretemps. p.294. ISBN 978-2-912877-63-5.

Warhol later satirized the whole event in a subsequent movie, Women in Revolt, calling a group similar to Solanas's S.C.U.M., "P.I.G." (Politically Involved Girlies). [ citation needed] Winkiel (1999), pp.68 ("the rhetoric [of the Manifesto] polemically urges the complete overthrow of heterosexual capitalism") & 78 (including "SCUM females .... tak[ing] ... over the means of production") Friedan, Betty (1976). It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-394-46398-8. In the mid-1960s, Solanas moved to New York City and supported herself through begging and prostitution. [18] [20] In 1965 she wrote two works: an autobiographical [21] short story, "A Young Girl's Primer on How to Attain the Leisure Class", and a play, Up Your Ass, [c] about a young prostitute. [18] According to James Martin Harding, the play is "based on a plot about a woman who 'is a man-hating hustler and panhandler' and who... ends up killing a man." [22] Harding describes it as more a "provocation than... a work of dramatic literature" [23] and "rather adolescent and contrived." [22] The short story was published in Cavalier magazine in July 1966. [24] [25] Up Your Ass remained unpublished until 2014. [26]If we examine the text more closely, we see that its analysis of patriarchal reality is a parody [...] The content itself is unquestionably a parody of the Freudian theory of femininity, where the word woman is replaced by man [...] All the cliches of Freudian psychoanalytical theory are here: the biological accident, the incomplete sex, "penis envy" which has become "pussy envy," and so forth [...] Here we have a case of absurdity being used as a literary device to expose an absurdity, that is, the absurd theory which has been used to give "scientific" legitimacy to patriarchy [...] What about her proposal that men should quite simply be eliminated, as a way of clearing the dead weight of misogyny and masculinity? This is the inevitable conclusion of the feminist pamphlet, in the same way that Jonathan Swift's proposal that Irish children (as useless mouths) should be fed to the swine was the logical conclusion of his bitter satirical pamphlet protesting famine in Ireland. Neither of the two proposals is meant to be taken seriously, and each belongs to the realm of political fiction, or even science fiction, written in a desperate effort to arouse public consciousness. [3] Denne bog burde slet ikke tildeles hjerter (This book should not be awarded hearts)". Politiken (in Danish). March 8, 2010 . Retrieved 2 February 2012.