Feminists, women, and misandrists alike, what do you think about Valerie Solanas and her SCUM Manifesto?

Question

http://www.womynkind.org/scum.htm

Valerie Solanas is a self-proclaimed feminist. Do you think she doesn't represent true feminism? Or does she? Do you agree or disagree with her SCUM Manifesto? Explain. Gentlemen, feel free to answer as well.

WendyG, I agree. Also Solanas' hatred is mild compared to Baba Yaga's hatred of men.

Answer 1

I think she was insane. She tried to kill Andy Warhol (mainly because of paranoid delusions), and spent a lot of her life in and out of insane asylums. Like most people who so violently hate the opposite sex, she was crazy.
Oh, and let me add that she absolutely does not represent "true" feminism.

EDIT--"Callum82..." Your logic doesn't make any sense. On the one hand, you say (in so many words) that "Catholics can't deny "affiliation" with the Pope, and thus the inquisition, implying that "feminists" can't deny affiliation with Solanas, and then you present the dichotomy between King and Malcolm X...ALL feminists, then, are Malcolm X? It makes better sense (in the context of your own analogy) to say that some (I'd say most) feminists are "King", and a few (like Solanas) are Malcolm X (although I personally have a great deal more respect for Malcolm X). If you really knew anything about Feminism, and chose to inform yourself, instead of relying your own biases, you would know that most feminists are not what you would make them out to be.
King's movement was about equal rights for black people, they were not fighting for equal rights for white people, were they?

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I sort of have to agree with Dierdre on this one; Solanas was a useless hag who probably didn't know jack **** about actual feminism.

It seems that same could be said for a few "feminists" on this board, especially those that feign ignorance of subjects (or people) they should have knowledge of.

Answer 4

She is the personification of the worst of the feminist movement.

I agree that she doesn't represent most feminists, in that she is insane. But just one look at a feminist publication shows that anti-male bias is rife.

To say she is not a 'real' feminist is rubbish. That's like a Catholic saying the Pope who carried out the inquisition wasn't a 'real' Catholic. This is the true Scotsman fallacy. The feminist absolves herself of guilt because anyone who does anything bad, wasn't a 'real' feminist.

Compare Martin Luther King to Malcom X. Both were black men who were against the oppression of blacks. But King managed to do this without alienating whites. Feminism is Malcom X, female nationalism (as opposed to black nationalism)

Feminism is not about equality, it is about women. Of course we are told it is about equality. Human rights are about equality, democracy is about equality. Feminism is about women.

Answer 5

That has nothing to do with feminism anymore than christianity has to do with the Ku Klux Klan.