When Porky moves to his new sty, he will construct an entire section dealing with women who hate men/boys. This is the first article destined for said section.
Possibly the most anti-male document ever written- the "SCUM Manifesto", (SCUM being an acronym for Society For Cutting Up Men)- was written by a radical feminist called Valerie Solanas, who these days is best known for stalking, and then attempting to murder, Andy Warhol. As the document is copyrighted I will present only excerpts. The entire text is available here.
In this document Solanas advocates what can most kindly be described as rabidly psychotic ideas.
The document begins thus...
“Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.”
This moving ode to the male sex continues with affection-filled phrases such as these...
“To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.”
“Every man, deep down, knows he's a worthless piece of shit.”
“The male is just a bunch of conditioned reflexes, incapable of a mentally free response.”
“SCUM will kill all men who are not in the Men's Auxiliary of SCUM.”
From this small, but, alas, representative sampling, one can see that Solanas seems to have been a bizarre combination of hatred and lunacy, and of course there are those who would try to excuse Solanas’ misandrist writing and behavior by pointing to her paranoid schizophrenia, and even though I think this has some validity, one has to wonder if they would do this in defense of a man who wrote such a document about women and who then went on to carry out the attempted murder of a high profile woman.
One also has to wonder what excuse can be used for the apparently sane feminists who supported her, even after her attempted murder of Warhol. Foremost amongst these feminists was Robin Morgan, who not only published excerpts from the manifesto in her collection “Sisterhood Is Powerful” but who further showed her support by campaigning for Solanas’ release after she was sentenced to a paltry 3 years for the attack on Warhol. Unlike Solanas, Morgan did not remain a fringe figure, for she went on to be the editor in chief of Ms Magazine from 1989-1993, and she continues to this day to work with Ms as it’s global editor and also serves on The Women’s Media Centre’s Board of Directors, not surprising given that she, along with Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem, was one of it’s three founders.
Here’s what Porky likes to call “the Other Trotter Test”. If Solanas had been a schizophrenic White Supremacist, and the SCUM manifesto had called for the eradication of black people, and she had tried to murder, say, Sidney Poitier, and Robin Morgan had published her rantings and tried to get her released from prison, Morgan would almost certainly, and quite rightly, have become a pariah amongst decent people, regardless of political persuasion. So then, one has to ask, why does she continue to be accepted by the likes of Fonda and Steinem? Let me be blunt- I think the most likely answer to this question is that decency is decency, feminism is feminism, and rarely do the twain meet.
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