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To: ansel12

Look it up. I don’t think Solanas- was a feminist.


113 posted on 07/31/2014 1:59:29 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

She sure fooled us all then.

Any topic can find some intellectuals that want argue anything, but the descriptions below certainly justify her being called a feminist.

“According to Robert Marmorstein in 1968, “she has dedicated the remainder of her life to the avowed purpose of eliminating every single male from the face of the earth.” Feminist Robin Morgan (later editor of Ms. magazine) demonstrated for Solanas’s release from prison. Ti-Grace Atkinson, the New York chapter president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), described Solanas as “the first outstanding champion of women’s rights” and as “a ‘heroine’ of the feminist movement”, and “smuggled [her manifesto] ... out of the mental hospital where Solanas was confined.” Another NOW member, Florynce Kennedy, called her “one of the most important spokeswomen of the feminist movement.” Norman Mailer called her the “Robespierre of feminism.””

“[Feminist philosopher Avital Ronell] believed that Solanas was ahead of her time, living in a period before feminist and lesbian revolutionaries such as the Guerilla Girls and the Lesbian Avengers. Solanas has also been credited as instigating radical feminism, according to Harding and Victor Bockris feminist revolutionaries supported her, and Catherine Lord wrote that “the feminist movement would not have happened without Valerie Solanas.” Lord believed that the reissuing of the SCUM Manifesto and the disowning of Solanas by “women’s liberation politicos” triggered a wave of radical feminist publications. As women’s liberation activists denied hating men, Vivian Gornick claimed that a year later the same women would change their stories, developing the first wave of radical feminism.”


118 posted on 07/31/2014 10:38:45 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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