![]() ![]() The reference to Hitler is not entirely unwarranted. When she took her war against men to the streets, the bullet she fired into Andy Warhol’s chest (he “refused to pay attention to me”) failed to kill him, though it left him traumatised for life. ![]() While SCUM – “Society For Cutting Up Men” – fulfils all the requirements for hate-speech, it differs from the likes of Anders Breivik’s manifesto or Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf not only by its occasional funniness, but by Solanas’s relative ineptitude as a terrorist or despot. For a man, Valerie Solanas’ notorious SCUM Manifesto provokes the same kind of alarmed interest as jihadi magazines like Dabiq or Inspire – the frisson of seeing oneself through the eyes of those who will one’s extermination. ![]()
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