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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 07:47 PM
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SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men)
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.

It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction. The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

The male is completely egocentric, trapped inside himself, incapable of empathizing or identifying with others, or love, friendship, affection of tenderness. He is a completely isolated unit, incapable of rapport with anyone. His responses are entirely visceral, not cerebral; his intelligence is a mere tool in the services of his drives and needs; he is incapable of mental passion, mental interaction; he can't relate to anything other than his own physical sensations. He is a half-dead, unresponsive lump, incapable of giving or receiving pleasure or happiness; consequently, he is at best an utter bore, an inoffensive blob, since only those capable of absorption in others can be charming. He is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than the apes because, unlike the apes, he is capable of a large array of negative feelings -- hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, doubt -- and moreover, he is aware of what he is and what he isn't.

Eaten up with guilt, shame, fears and insecurities and obtaining, if he's lucky, a barely perceptible physical feeling, the male is, nonetheless, obsessed with screwing; he'll swim through a river of snot, wade nostril-deep through a mile of vomit, if he thinks there'll be a friendly pussy awaiting him. He'll screw a woman he despises, any snaggle-toothed hag, and furthermore, pay for the opportunity. Why? Relieving physical tension isn't the answer, as masturbation suffices for that. It's not ego satisfaction; that doesn't explain screwing corpses and babies.

Completely egocentric, unable to relate, empathize or identify, and filled with a vast, pervasive, diffuse sexuality, the male is pyschically passive. He hates his passivity, so he projects it onto women, defines the make as active, then sets out to prove that he is (`prove that he is a Man'). His main means of attempting to prove it is screwing (Big Man with a Big Dick tearing off a Big Piece). Since he's attempting to prove an error, he must `prove' it again and again. Screwing, then, is a desperate compulsive, attempt to prove he's not passive, not a woman; but he is passive and does want to be a woman.

read the whole manifesto here: http://www.ai.mit.edu/~shivers/rants/scum.html


I think it's hilarious. :D
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 07:49 PM
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1. Warhol took a bullet over it
Valerie Solanis, its author, shot him.

--p!
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 07:51 PM
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3. Yup, even made a movie about it.
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tishaLA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 07:50 PM
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2. valerie Solanis, the founder of this group
Shot Warhol in 68.

I don't think the group has been active since. But Andy was still upset that Bobby Kennedy got shot the same week and kept his shooting off the cover of Time.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 08:04 PM
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5. I think she was the only member of the 'group'.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 07:55 PM
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4. Sounds like a knockoff of Calvin & Hobbs' G.R.O.S.S. n/t
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FizzFuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 08:08 PM
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6. more like vice versa-S.C.U.M. came first.
the movie is terrific. Lili Taylor can ACT !!!
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-04 06:38 AM
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7. Touche
You are right, of course.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-04 08:14 AM
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8. OK. Am I a closet bigoted sexist freeper if...
...I don't find such things even the least bit funny?
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-04 08:15 AM
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9. I'm there with you if you are.
:hi:
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-04 08:18 AM
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10. No, this is just asking for another gender war.
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