#valerie solanas

[mscoyote]

one thing about the scum manifesto that uncool people seem to miss is that it is so fucking funny

obviously it is brilliant and scathing and still relevant to our world today, and it is also hilarious. valerie was not only a gifted thinker but her turn of phrase is decisive and wry and utterly distinct. like i love the contents of the manifesto but i also love her Voice as an entity unto itself

but again uncool people will never know this, because if any criticism of XYs isn't padded with a full paragraph of the most bloodless caveats you've ever seen (cishet gender conforming able-bodied mentally sound middle or upper class white men with IQs of 85 or higher) they shit their britches and die

[raddietrin]

favorite excerpts from SCUM manifesto by Valerie Solanas

[edonee]

super low quality meme. valerie come back we need you more than ever </3

[dynamoe]

"This Barbie is founding a society for cuttin' up men"

[lesbianlenses]

[poopityscoopscoopdewoop]

another SCUM quote :)

“The point of Women’s Liberation is not to stand at the door of the male world, beating our fists, and crying: “Let me in, damn you, let me in!” The point is to walk away from that world and concentrate on creating a new woman, a woman who will take no place in that world, a woman who will make that world fall merely by refusing to populate it, a woman who will remake herself—and her daughters—in a far more divine image (ie., more recognizably human) than the one she now occupies.”

[d0llpartssss]

Some people in the queer community use TERF too much.

I've seen a lot of people calling radfems terfs for having completely valid and rational opinions.

Sex based oppression exists, yes. And this is not a terfy take. As we all know sex≠gender. There's gender based oppression and sex based oppression, we can't negate that.

This is genuinely such a normal feminist take is lowkey embarrassing talking about it.

Some of yalls brains have been rotted by liberal feminism, pleaseeee look into radfem theory i beg you

[over-eden]

man hater (2019) page 3 // full zine here

[thefrenchrad]

When in Amsterdam … 😇

[moonstonetombstone]

[lisamarie-vee]

[bluebelltohell6]

miss this queen

[haggishlyhagging]

Some of the most intense expressions of rage at males' limitations had been written in 1967 in Valerie Solanis' "SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto." (Solanis was not an activist in the organized feminist movement. She had worked for, and later shot, pop artist Andy Warhol.)

Being an incomplete female, the male spends his life attempting to complete himself, to become female. He attempts to do this by constantly seeking out, fraternizing with and trying to live through and fuse with the female...

In the 1970s, other writers followed in Solanis' lead. Particularly close in wording were the women of CLIT (Collection of Lesbian International Terrors), who published three groups of articles.

In CLIT Statement #2, published in 1974, they wrote, "males aren't human."

...It is impossible for women and men to become more and more alike because all men are terminally male which means jealous hole/woman killer.

The truth of the matter, which all patriarchies since their conception have tried to suppress, is that women are not only superiojr sexually to men, but also intellectually and emotionally and every other way except for physical strength.

Others, such as lesbian writer Rita Laporte, used gentler terms but saw men as limited.

Only by banding together and following a leader can men find strength, for they are emotionally and spiritually weaker, more dependent and sheep-like, than women. This animal-like urge to band into groups, while giving the individual members a feeling of potency, also necessitates fighting to defend the prowess of their leader against other, exactly similar groups...

Women, on the other hand, are determined by no such group pull.

Women who wish to cooperate with other women do so on the human, not the animal, level. Not being pushed by instinct to fall into gangs behind a more powerful woman, they are free to join together intelligently and they are free to leave the group by intelligent choice when they feel the group is up to no good...

This makes it impossible for vast hordes of women to be led into activities destructive to the human race. At the same time it makes agreement harder to come by.

LaPorte is speaking very generally. There is surely less group violence by women than by men, but one could not say that women never join or stay in fascist or violent groups.

-Carol Anne Douglas, Love and Politics: Radical Feminist and Lesbian Theories

[sunpfeiffer]

“On June 3, 1968, Solanas went to The Factory, shot Warhol and art critic Mario Amaya, and attempted to shoot Warhol’s manager Fred Hughes. She then turned herself in to the police. Solanas was charged with attempted murder, assault and illegal possession of a firearm. She was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and pleaded guilty to ‘reckless assault with intent to harm,’ serving a three-year prison sentence, including treatment in a psychiatric hospital. After her release, she continued to promote the SCUM Manifesto. She died in 1988 of pneumonia in San Francisco.” (Wikipedia)

[vojkovrucina]

valerie solanas was right and we let her down

[lesbianlenses]