SCUM Manifesto

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  Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)

  “Is it fair, say, to pretend that Valerie Solanas, who shot Andy Warhol, who advocated male extermination in her Society For Cutting Up Men manifesto, is representative of feminism as a whole? Many anti-feminists over the years have done exactly that. But it's not fair, is it?”

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  Nick Cave

  “[Solanas] wrote a very angry and very precise portrait of what she considered the male to be: something between a human and an ape; an unresponsive blob only concerned with physical sensation and without the capacity for empathy or self-knowledge or intimacy, and at the same time full of hatred and jealousy and shame and guilt. Her description is beautiful and on some level, I think, entirely accurate.”↗

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  Kurt Cobain

  “[Solanas] was a militant feminist who, in my opinion, had some incredible ideas. Everybody called her insane because the ideas are pretty violent. [The book] pretty much says women should rule the earth, and I agree with it.”↗