Radical Feminism

I do apologize for not having posted recently, but I've been so busy with school and other things that I haven't had time to just sit down and WRITE for my blog. And as we all know, school comes first, because otherwise I won't have food to eat if I graduate.

I'm taking a class this semester called "History & Critical Public Address/U.S. Criticism," which is essentially a historical rhetoric class. What we do is, we read speeches and look at the rhetoric included in them. We dig into the audience and discover why they listened to the rhetor in the first place. 

We've read things by Black Hawk, Angelina Grimké (I even did a presentation on her), Harriet Tubman, etc. We've covered things from Native American Rights, to Women's Rights, to Abolition, to the Civil Rights Movement, and now we're moving into Second Wave Feminism. 

Ah, Second Wave Feminism. 

My second presentation for this class is on Valerie Solanas. You probably haven't heard of her. Which is, actually, a very, very good thing.

Valerie Solanas is the author of the SCUM Manifesto. The acronym is supposed to stand for "Society for Cutting Up Men."

Yep, you read that right.

Ms. Solanas wanted to rid the world of the male gender, because she saw no reason for men to exist. They were "glorified, walking dildos" to her, and since women can reproduce because of science, men aren't needed any more. 

Men are also responsible for:

• War (because this is the only way he can prove that he's a "man")
• Niceness, Politeness, & Dignity (a social code that ensures perfect blandness)
• Money, Marriage and Prostitution, Work and Prevention of an Automated Society (apparently, money is the root of all things evil and it's why leisure time terrifies men)
• Fatherhood and Mental Illness [fear, cowardice, timidity, humility, insecurity, passivity] (because Daddy doesn't love his children, and Daddy can only be respected if he remains aloof)
• Suppression of Individuality, Animalism [domesticity and motherhood], and Functionalism (females are reduced to animals because that's the only way men feels safe around them)
• Prevention of Privacy (because men want to be women, they create a society based upon the family)
• Isolation, Suburbs, and Prevention of Community (men cannot cooperate to achieve a common end, because men swing back and forth between isolation and gang-banging, and there is no middle ground)
• Conformity (men are scared of anything that makes them different than others, so he clearly defines genders)
• Authority and Government (men created authorities, then wanted to usurp the females and become Woman, so now all authorities are male)
• Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Based on Sex (men cannot relate to anybody, so he invented philosophy and religion so that he can find something to save himself)
• Prejudice [racial, ethnic, religious, etc.] (because men need scapegoats)
• Competition, Prestige, Status, Formal Education, Ignorance and Social and Economic Classes (the purpose of higher education is not to educate but to exclude as many as possible from the various professions)
• Prevention of Conversation (men cannot talk about anything other than themselves, and when they try, they end up droning on because it is a strained, compulsive attempt to impress the female)
• Prevention of Friendship [love] (men have contempt for htemselves and for all other men and for all women who respect and pander to them. So love can't exist between two people of either gender, because only two secure, free-wheeling, independent groovy female females can have love)

Oh, but don't worry. Men have given us these things instead:

• Great Art and Culture (a highly artificial world in which the male is heroized by displaying female traits, and the female is reduced to highly limited, insipid, subordinate roles/to being male)
• Sexuality (sex is not part of a relationship. Females can easily condition away their sex drive so they can be free to pursue truly worthy relationships but men only throw them into sex bags)
• Boredom ("Life in a society made by and for creatures who, when they are not grim and depressing are utter bores, can only be, when not grim and depressing, an utter bore.")
• Secrecy, Censorship, Suppression of Knowledge and Ideas, and Exposes (in order to prevent the exposure of the male sex as a whole and to maintain his unnatural dominant position in society, this is what a male resorts to)
• Distrust (males cannot empathize or feel affection or loyalty)
• Ugliness (men are incapable of cerebral or aesthetic responses and are totally materialistic and greedy)
• Hatred and Violence (they must prove they are a man in order to have an outlet for their hate)
• Disease and Death (everything is curable, and we could actually live forever, if men weren't so afraid of exposing themselves as incomplete, disfigured females and stopped researching "manly" war and death programs)

So what are we supposed to do? 

Obviously, we need to eliminate all males on the planet. Once we stop kowtowing to their male-dominated leadership, their entire society will crumble. Solanas even says that everyone needs to "f--- up their jobs" until they are fired, then go on to another place and mess up that job as well. Eventually, everything will collapse and when it does, the women will end up on top because we aren't as weak and narrow-minded as the men are.

You'd think this would be satire. "Something this crazy can't actually be REAL, can it?" you cry in amazement as you read through my list.

Oh, but it is. She is actually 100% serious. 

I encourage you to do a bit of research on Valerie Sonalas and just see how crazy she actually is. (You can just look at her picture and SEE the crazy.) She is absolutely insane. (She even went and shot Andy Warhol because he refused to produce or publish her play, because he thought it was dirty.)

And that is what I've been working on instead of blogging. 

Maybe next week, I'll run a little piece on Angelina Grimké. I thought she was actually really cool, and I would've loved to have met her.

See y'all later - I'm on vacation right now and I've been blogging this while I should've been working on my presentation for Solanas. Oops.