![]() Solanas was never in society, which is probably why she was such a good social satirist, whether or not she intended to be. I think a dozen horrible thoughts just getting to the office, but when I step off the streetcar, I’m back in society. Solanas, as you probably know, seems to have lacked the capacity to distinguish between feelings and reasonable beliefs: she lived in that moment where the guy next to you on the bus sneezes without covering his mouth and you hope he gets bisected by a falling window. ![]() The manifesto is both a screed against men and a screed against everything wrong with the world, which, for Solanas, men happened to represent. When I say “most of us,” I don’t only mean women (SCUM stands for Society for Cutting Up Men). ![]() ![]() It’s too bad that Valerie Solanas-who died of bronchopneumonia 25 years ago today-shot Andy Warhol, because her SCUM Manifesto is a great piece of literature: a very funny, very lucid expression of feelings that most of us have but know better than to accept as beliefs. ![]()
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