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Scum Manifesto Valerie Solanas Avital Ronell Books

I consider Solanas a brilliant thinker. Her prose is clear and powerful.


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Scum Manifesto Valerie Solanas Avital Ronell Books Reviews

To fully understand Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto, we must place it into historical context. It is not a violent attack against men, per se, much like a black man's raging indictment against slavery and bigotry isn't strictly against all whites. No, within the context of history, it is a scream of protest against those men who have affected her the most, the kind of men who were most vocally in charge at the time and who are still vying for power now, the kind of men who are "incapable of empathizing or identifying with others, of love, friendship, affection, or tenderness." It would be a disservice to evoke the oft-used derogatory term "red-neck" since this is a mere substitution of one generic term, "man", with another. A more appropriate phrase would be "a stereotype of man"--a stereotype enforced by the media and by society. To use Solanas' own words, society "tells the boy, sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly, to not be a sissy, to act like a 'Man'". Keeping this stereotype of what a man should be in mind, much of what Solanas writes fits into place. Men definitely are not from Mars and women definitely are not from Venus, but they are made to think that they are.*

However, this doesn't necessarily mean that everything she writes is true (e.g. "the problems of aging and death could be solved within a few years, if an all-out, massive scientific assault were made on the problem"). Like all observational pieces, it has its faults. And of course there's the final solution which at worst seeks to ignite a full-scale revolt against the status quo and at best seeks to engender a non-passive resistance against it.

Be as it may, it cannot be ignored that this is one of the first works to address these issues, albeit broadly, and it is important in that regard.

Read with a grain of salt.

Footnote

*See page 40 for a "few examples of the most obnoxious or harmful types" which include politicians, the advertising industry, and clinical psychologists.
This booklet is all the funnier for having been written seriously. Keep a copy at work and read from it when something annoys or frustrates you. Clear, uncomplicated, punch-in-the-nose writing.
This is a very radical feminist tract. While the sentiment is laudable and one to an extent I share, the writer seemed deranged with her juvenile ideas about transcending the system altogether by "quitting work, eliminating money and all governments, and killing men." It is also amazing how she completely overlooked any discussion of religion. I give it 3 stars mainly for its shock and entertainment value.
Good book...
I expected to find it mildly amusing at best and was surprised by moments of insightfulness. It's second wave feminism at its finest. That's not a compliment but also I get what she was trying to do.
Great for insomnia.
Honestly, this book is hilarious and I enjoy sending excerpts to my male friends. I first learned of Valerie on American Horror Story and thought she was a made up character. I found her so interesting that I googled just to be sure and when I found out I could actually read her manifesto, I ordered it immediately. I have no regrets.
I consider Solanas a brilliant thinker. Her prose is clear and powerful.