SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact, the work has indisputable prescience, not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its timepredicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against under-representation in the artsbut also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman.

The focus of this edition is not on the nostalgic appeal of the work, but on Avital Ronell’s incisive introduction, “Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas.” Here is a reconsideration of Solanas’s infamous text in light of her social milieu, Derrida’s “The Ends of Man” (written in the same year), Judith Butler’s Excitable Speech, Nietzsche’s Ubermensch and notorious feminist icons from Medusa, Medea and Antigone, to Lizzie Borden, Lorenna Bobbit and Aileen Wournos, illuminating the evocative exuberance of Solanas’s dark tract. I am both a walking dildo and a walking abortion. I, like every man, know deep down that I'm a worthless piece of shit. Look, here's the thing. People either compare this to something like A Modest Proposal or they dismiss it as the work of a raving lunatic. Very few feminists would agree with Solanas. Especially since Solanas has lots of (really offensive) shit to say about women, especially women who like fucking dudes ('raving sex maniacs' is a very mild example).

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The manifesto is I am both a walking dildo and a walking abortion. I, like every man, know deep down that I'm a worthless piece of shit. Alimentazione E Nutrizione Umana Pdf Merge here.

Look, here's the thing. People either compare this to something like A Modest Proposal or they dismiss it as the work of a raving lunatic. Very few feminists would agree with Solanas. Especially since Solanas has lots of (really offensive) shit to say about women, especially women who like fucking dudes ('raving sex maniacs' is a very mild example).

The manifesto is intellectually inconsistent, stupid, frustrating and thoroughly enlightening all at once. She makes exactly zero points that aren't obvious (and few that wouldn't have been obvious at the time). But the worth of the thing is in its presentation. Regardless of whether or not Solanas believed everything she wrote, the manifesto is an interesting reversal of exactly the kind of shit men have been saying about women for fucking ever.

Check out Youtube comments, subreddits, comments on porn sites. Note how often and how easily women are openly talked about as being good only for fucking. Note that this is about as mild as the comments get. Read this manifesto (it's short) then consider how just about everything Solanas says has exact parallels in misogynistic discourse. Which is everywhere.

If you're a dude and have been around other dudes, you've probably come across this language. I've made it, like, a mission not to hang out with frat boys and shit.

But I've still come across this kind of thing. I've been around dudes and they've been talking to a buddy who's been through a breakup and shit like 'it's just a cunt. You'll find another one' has indeed been said.

I know because that lovely couplet (note the 'it') was said directly to me. The speaker was a liberal arts grad who has Judith Butler books on his shelf. And also Weininger.

Plus it's not like murderous male rage isn't everywhere either. From the barely concealed snuff films featuring sexy chicks being hacked to pieces that populate multiplexes and Netflix and stuff to thoroughly mainstream porn that constantly reinforces misogynistic ideology by in essence 'killing' off any part of a woman that separates her from an ego-boosting, pleasure-giving machine.