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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script type="text/javascript" src="http://hb.lycos.com/hb.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ratings.lycos.com/ratings/lycosRating.js.php"></script> <script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[//><!]]></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://scripts.lycos.com/catman/init.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-start.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-middle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-end.js"></script> <noscript> <img src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/img/common/ot_noscript.gif?rand=477109" alt="" width="1" height="1" />  <iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90" src="http://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=728x90&section=209094"></iframe>  </noscript> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=160 BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000" background="067f0f03.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sex War"><U><B>Sex War</b></U></A></div> <div>  <A HREF="id68.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Feminism and violence"><U><B>Feminism and violence</b></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>S.C.U.M.</b></div> <div> <A HREF="id85.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lorena Bobbit"><U>Lorena Bobbit</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id118.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Is 10 too much?"><U>Is 10% too much?</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="068f0f03.jpg"> <div> <B>S.C.U.M.</b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.bcn.net/~jpiazzo/valbio.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.bcn.net/~jpiazzo/valbio.htm"><U>Valarie Solanas</U></A> was a disturbed and mentally ill woman who wrote a lively piece about hating and killing all the men in the world and called upon other women to join her in the "Society for Cutting Up Men" or SCUM. The piece itself is a snapshot of the breezy sexual hatred that typified the radical feminist groups of the time. If Solanas had not gone a step further and actually shot Andy Warhol in 1967 it would have remained unknown.</div> <bR> <div> But Valarie certainly had her 15 minutes of fame for putting into practice what might have sounded like hyperbole. What was the reaction within the feminist movement to her shooting? What is the attitude in the movement today towards this advocate of gender genocide?</div> <bR> <div> It's hard to think of a comparable case with a man seriously endorsing the death of women. So hypothetically let's say OJ Simpson were to write an angst-filled tract labeled "How to Keep your Woman" in which he claimed that women were animals useful for nothing but sex, who ought to be beaten into submission, or murdered if they got out of hand. What do you think the reaction would be?</div> <bR> <div> Well here is what happened to Valarie. She had two recognized leaders within the women's movement supporting her at her trial. Florynce Kennedy represented her and called her "<B>one of the most important spokeswomen of the feminist movement</b>." Ti-Grace Atkinson (the New York chapter president of NOW) said she was "<B>the first outstanding champion of women's rights</b>." The manifesto was included in a published anthology of important feminist works and continues to be recognized as a serious contribution towards feminist thought.</div> <bR> <div> The SCUM manifesto is easy to find on line and is one of the common links on feminist web sites. Here is a copy held on-line at <A HREF="http://gos.sbc.edu/s/solanas.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://gos.sbc.edu/s/solanas.html"><U>Sweet Briar College</U></A> in a collection called "<I>Gifts of Speech - Women's thoughts from around the world</I>". The manifesto can be <A HREF="http://www.gabnet.com/lit/demoh15e.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.gabnet.com/lit/demoh15e.htm"><U>found on many sites</U></A> and is freely available. Despite this, and the fact that it is over 30 years old, it is one of the highest ranked <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1873176449/o/qid=959631127/sr=8-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/104-7647051-7520741" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1"><U>sales at Amazon</U></A> among feminism / women's issues and <B>gets many positive reviews</b>. It is frequently suggested reading in colleges and universities for women's studies courses.</div> <bR> <div> <I> <A NAME="turds"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I><I>This is equality!?</I></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="475" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFFBF0 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 191 WIDTH="463"><div> SCUM will kill all men who are not in the Men's Auxiliary of SCUM. Men in the Men's Auxiliary are those men who are working diligently to eliminate themselves, men who, regardless of their motives, do good, men who are playing pall with SCUM. </div> <div>  .... to aid men in this endeavor SCUM will conduct Turd Sessions, at which every male present will give a speech beginning with the sentence: `I am a turd, a lowly abject turd', then proceed to list all the ways in which he is. His reward for doing so will be the opportunity to fraternize after the session for a whole, solid hour with the SCUM who will be present.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div>   </div> <div> What does it say about feminism that the reaction to a deranged loony and an attempted murderer's juvenile scatological rambling is to hold it up as serious political commentary? Put it another way -- <B>how bigoted and violent would a view have to be</b> for it to be rejected by feminism, if one which explicitly calls for the murder of all men, and is written by an attempted murderer is <B>not</b> rejected?</div> <bR> <div> I am not trying to claim feminists literally agree with the SCUM manifesto. I am merely trying to show that feminism is entirely accepting of the SCUM manifesto as a contribution towards feminism. I hope most feminists would treat the call for genocide as an expression of contempt for men, rather than as a serious suggestion. But its amazing how many feminist comments seem to take it at face value:</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="473" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFFBF0 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 249 WIDTH="463"><div> I recently read Valarie Solanas' SCUM manifesto, and although her main claim to fame would be the attempt on Warhols life, I was turned on by her ideas . They were way out there and even though they seem to contradict each other at times they pack a punch. I love it but maybe i'm just into her style of writing. Can't say I'm much of a politcal type, i'm in my own groove and people could screw what they want, but i was interested in knowing if her Society for Cutting Up Men ever materialized. And any opinions on Solanas' ideas or similar ones by others. I don't mean just ANY woman who had an anti capitolist idea. I mean women(or fags) who wanna stick to the MAN in a really no holds barred way etc... thats what i'm into what can i say. guys are idiots includding myself(valerie has put a spell on me). </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>     <p align="center"> <A HREF="http://rd1.hitbox.com/rd?acct=WQ5011298NZC45EN0&p=s"> <IMG SRC="http://hg1.hitbox.com/HG?hc=wf153&l=y&hb=WQ5011298NZC45EN0&cd=1&n=SCUM" height=62 width=88 ALT="Click Here!" border=0> </A> </p>    </div> </td> </tr></table></body>