Monday, February 25, 2008

OMG...SCUM Manifesto!!!!!

Valerie Solanas' Manifesto was meant to be an attack on the patriarchal culture, promoting the idea of a violent revolution to establish an all-female society. What is most outstanding about the piece is that in spite of its extremism and furious style, and aside from the violent message it conveys, it actually makes lots of sense when dealing with social analysis and scientific facts. (It gets most interesting when she describes her theory that a male is actually an incomplete female, which is the total opposite of the Freudian theory.)
Her description of men as lacking individuality and being interchangeable, is the same idiology used in our patriarchal society, and it is the basis on which they justify polygamy... since they feel that if one woman cannot do her job as perfectly as she should, then we'll get a second one to complement her deficiencies... totally oblivious to the fact that this will destroy the woman emotionally, and socially.. as well as putting the blame on her in the end, since she is the one with the deficiencies, and never caring how this will damage the family as a whole, or the children in particular... In short they feel that women are interchangeable.
At first I found her ideas extreme and uncalled for, but dont you think that these same ideas which are being applied to women in this day and age are similarily extreme and uncalled for? The difference is that she was sent to a mental institution because this idea is insane, but the men of today are given the benefit of the doubt, and they're justified, and are never sent to get the apropriate psychiatric care... and sometimes their actions are even encouraged and condoned by society. WTF???

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