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To: a fool in paradise

SCUM! she was describing herself?


9 posted on 08/08/2014 3:36:19 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUM_Manifesto

The SCUM Manifesto is a radical feminist manifesto[1][2] written in 1967[3][4] by Valerie Solanas. It argues that men have ruined the world and that women should overthrow society and eliminate the male sex.[5][6] It has been reprinted at least 10 times, translated into 13 languages, and excerpted several times. It generated a range of reactions, including that it was utopian, feminist, pre-feminist, crusading, and a call to act; accurate, symbolic, irreverent, funny, outrageous, and extreme; parodic and satiric but not a put-on; witty, shocking, and articulative of rage; nonviolent, a suggestion for retraining of men, a declaration that men would be killed, and a charter for violence; and misandric; and that it sought a women-only world and that it wouldn’t be necessary to kill men.

The term SCUM appeared on the cover of first edition from Olympia Press as S.C.U.M. and was said to stand for “Society for Cutting Up Men.”[7] Solanas objected, insisting that it was not an acronym, although the expanded term appeared in a Village Voice ad she had written in 1967


15 posted on 08/08/2014 3:40:03 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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