![]() ![]() ![]() The word “SCUM” is used in the text in reference to a certain type of women, not to men. Though it has come to be said that “SCUM” stands for “Society for Cutting Up Men” (used in places such as The New York Times), this phrase actually occurs nowhere in the text. Alice Echols has argued that the tract is misandric. The text contains all the clichés of Freudian psychoanalytical theory: the biological accident, the incomplete sex and “penis envy” which has become “pussy envy” Solanas also claimed that her writing was a satirical literary device to elicit debate. Some authors have argued that the text is a parody of patriarchy and the Freudian theory of femininity, where the word woman is replaced by man. The SCUM Manifesto is a feminist tract written in 1968 by Valerie Solanas, who shot Andy Warhol. You can read it here in pdf and there are a few copies of SCUM in Elise’s box at Treasure City Thrift. This Sunday, the 13th, BETCH is joining us to read The SCUM Manifesto. ![]()
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