The worst part of her mistaken view of society is how she treats her fellow women.
It seems to me that unthinking activity is often our downfall. I cannot understand why she feels that all these "evil" men are passive. Oddly, another word she uses to describe my sex throughout is "passive".
Sometimes in her Manifesto, I feel she is getting close to a truth, before she careers off on one of her wild rants that covers everything in a thick fog of contradictory polemic. It is however, fairly entertaining and an interesting point of view that I have found in no other work I have ever read. It is true that it is certainly a vitriolic attack on men our self obsession, love of war, paternalistic manipulation and insecurity are all blasted by Valerie. Nor, in my opinion has it much to do with feminism. I have given this four stars not because it is the work of a great mind it isn't. The focus of this edition is not on the nostalgic appeal of the work, but on Avital Ronell’s incisive introduction, “Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas.” Here is a reconsideration of Solanas’s infamous text in light of her social milieu, Derrida’s “The Ends of Man” (written in the same year), Judith Butler’s Excitable Speech, Nietzsche’s Ubermensch and notorious feminist icons from Medusa, Medea and Antigone, to Lizzie Borden, Lorenna Bobbit and Aileen Wournos, illuminating the evocative exuberance of Solanas’s dark tract. In fact, the work has indisputable prescience, not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its timepredicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against under-representation in the artsbut also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman.
But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968.
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