SCUM Manifesto

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Solanas may have intended to write an eponymous autobiography. [76] In a 1977 Village Voice interview, [77] she announced a book with her name as the title. [78] The book, possibly intended as a parody, was supposed to deal with the "conspiracy" that led to her imprisonment. [77] In a corrective 1977 Village Voice interview, Solanas said the book would not be autobiographical other than a small portion and that it would be about many things, include proof of statements in the manifesto, and would "deal very intensively with the subject of bullshit," but she said nothing about parody. [60] I do not think Valerie Solanas was crazy — not for writing SCUM Manifesto, and certainly not for depositing those three infamous bullets into Andy Warhol (facts: the gunshots, though not fatal, essentially sliced up Warhol's abdomen, and 'SCUM' is an apronym for 'Society for Cutting Up Men'). Solanas was consistently wronged and marginalised throughout her life, and was (some may argue inconsistently) radicalised because of it — after all, radical ideas never come from the comfortable. Her work was purposeful, born of rage, belief, and an understanding of systemic subjugation of women.

The SCUM manifesto was presented as a plot device in the FX television series American Horror Story: Cult, first seen in the episode " Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag", which first aired on October 17, 2017. A fictionalized version of Valerie Solanas, played by the actress Lena Dunham, recited the manifesto throughout the episode. Davis, Debra Diane (2000). Breaking up [at] Totality: a Rhetoric of Laughter. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0809322285. Feminist philosopher Avital Ronell compared Solanas to an array of people: Lorena Bobbitt; a "girl Nietzsche"; Medusa; the Unabomber; and Medea. [101] Ronell believed that Solanas was threatened by the hyper-feminine women of the Factory that Warhol liked and felt lonely because of the rejection she felt due to her own butch androgyny. She believed Solanas was ahead of her time, living in a period before feminist and lesbian activists such as the Guerrilla Girls and the Lesbian Avengers. [66]There were moments when... ["Solanas"] disclaimed the acronymization of her title, refuting that it stood for 'Society for Cutting Up Men.' A mere 'literary device' and belated add-on...." [97]

Donovan, Josephine, Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions (NY: Continuum, 3d ed. 2000 ( ISBN 0-8264-1248-3)), p. 157 n. 7English professor Dana Heller argued that Solanas was "very much aware of feminist organizations and activism," [72] but "had no interest in participating in what she often described as 'a civil disobedience luncheon club.'" [72] Heller also stated that Solanas could "reject mainstream liberal feminism for its blind adherence to cultural codes of feminine politeness and decorum which the SCUM Manifesto identifies as the source of women's debased social status." [72] Solanas and Warhol [ edit ] Hamilton, Neil A. (2002). Rebels and Renegades: a Chronology of Social and Political Dissent in the United States. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-93639-2.