Man hating?

Question

Has anyone heard of the feminist organization called scum, society for cutting up men calling for a gendercide?

Answer 1

I haven't heard of it, but I'm not surprised.  The feminazis are friggin crazy, whacked out, libs.

Answer 2

At least they are honest about it.

Most misandrists (or feminists as they call themselves) want and strive for the same thing, but they do it in a piecemeal fashion.

It starts early with education being biased very strongly in favor of females. Males are then likely to wind up in jobs which are dangerous, with a higher risk of workplace death, and also lower paying so they will be unable to afford healthcare.

Also consider the vastly lopsided funding for breast cancer compared to prostate cancer which kills just as many men.

At least this group are honest about their intentions.

Answer 3

Yep. Valerie Solanas was a moron/nutcase with no grasp of basic biology.

Answer 4

No, are you kidding?

Answer 5

Yes, they did exist . . . THIRTY years ago . . . with no success at all.

Answer 6

It was a book written by a woman about 40 years ago. There was never an actual 'society' as in a group of people with shared beliefs, a fact the author went into detail to explain at various times in her life ... it's a book, not a textbook.

The book, called the SCUM Manifesto was written by a woman called Valerie Solanas at the time when second wave feminism was developing in many different directions.

Solanas was a troubled woman who left home as a young teen to escape persistent sexual abuse by her father. She found her way to New York and became a prostitute, working the streets, which caused intense inner conflict because she was a L*****n.

She heard about feminism and became interested in what she saw as a new movement that could empower women, and wrote several stories and plays based on her own life and views, including one called "Up Your @ss", which she submitted to Andy Warhol, a g*y man who owned a studio called 'The Factory' where New York artists of the period met and worked.

He liked the title of the play but found it extreme and not commercially viable, and treated Solanas with contempt as a L*****n and as someone who was not 'groovy'.

Solanas became fixated on Warhol and after a long period of obsessive behaviour, shot and wounded him. He recovered and refused to testify against her, and she was sentenced to time in a psychiatric facility.

If you take the time to read the SCUM Manifesto, and most people don't (not least because the language is difficult and it is, frankly, not that well written), you may find that some of the ideas are interesting and disturbing.

It is very obviously the work of someone who has been deeply hurt and damaged in their life.

Sadly for the cause of abused children and damaged people everywhere, it is not a 'great' work of liberation, more like a howl of pain without the lyrical effect of Ginsberg's talented use of words and images.

Solanas is chiefly remembered because she shot Andy Warhol, which projected her onto newspaper front pages for a short time, her writing (she wrote many other things) is not much read, and she is not someone feminists model themselves on, even though many women who have shared her life experiences can relate in some ways to her anger, fear and pain.

Her life was a bitter and tragic one, and her best known work, the SCUM Manifesto is a testament to the damage people can do to each other.

Cheers :-)

Answer 7

I haven't heard of any cases of men being cut up, or gendercide perpetrated by an affiliated group of women, but I have heard of 'honour killings" and domestic homicides perpetrated by men on a daily basis.

Why don't we hear men talk about those murders in G&WS?

Answer 8

Actually I have heard of them.... not surprising in today's world.  They're disgusting really.

Answer 9

yes and there is a manifesto the author valerie salonas i may have misspelt the name

Answer 10

I know.

If the topic interests you, here is the famous SCUM of valery Solanas:

http://www.womynkind.org/scum.htm

Answer 11

No, you're taking the michael, the man-hating days are so dead and gone.Ask Germaine Greer, she even talks to them nowadays.....

Answer 12

No, but I'm not totally surprised. BTW, there are masculinists who want women not to be educated or have a say in politics at all (one thread on child abuse actually stated that the state should have no say in how a man treated his wife or kids), a Christian Party website that teaches much the same about women, as well as racism and the fact that the holocaust never happened....

Basically, you can find any number of deeply unpleasent and wrong things on the web, but it would be foolish to suggest their motives are shared by the majority.

Answer 13

No, ive never heard of it, but im not surprised with all of these hot headed feminists today...

Answer 14

Wow, that's really frightening. I was hoping the question was a joke, but I see it's not. Scary.

Answer 15

It wasn't a society or an organization-it was one sick woman who wrote some crazy stuff 40 years ago that people who like to quote as though it was a legion of militant radical man-hating feminists-ready to take over the world. oh my!

Next question about feminists and/or man hating organizations or other bizarre stuff from 40 years ago? How about 60 years ago?

Answer 16

Are you voting for McCain?

Answer 17

Yeah, it was founded by the psychotic misanthrope who shot Andy Warhol, Valerie Solanas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUM_Manife...

No one really took it seriously, even the more hardline misandrists.  It's pretty obviously the work of a profoundly disturbed woman, and the "society for cutting up men" never really existed to any real degree.