Read the complete text here. Years ago my partner had given the SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas to me as an important text of the feminist canon. I revisit it now with a Femme Domme reading, as I have believed for several years that Females are superior to men. It is so clearly and boldly outlined in this text. While there is much to discuss in this short controversial book, there are two main points I find pertinent to our discussion. First, that men are inferior to women and second that men know that they are inferior to women, but have managed to trick women into thinking themselves inferior.
Consider the following:
"The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples."
"The female's individuality, which he is acutely aware of, but which he doesn't comprehend and isn't capable of relating to or grasping emotionally, frightens and upsets him and fills him with envy. So he denies it in her and proceeds to define everyone in terms of his or her function or use, assigning to himself, of course, the most important functions -- doctor, president, scientist -- therefore providing himself with an identity, if not individuality, and tries to convince himself and women (he's succeeded best at convincing women) that the female function is to bear and raise children and to relax, comfort and boost the ego if the male; that her function is such as to make her interchangeable with every other female."
I am a feminist intellectual who believes in Female Superiority. Bring Me books and rub My feet, Incomplete Gene!
3 comments:
You make some excellent points, Mistress Cross. Men like me are at the same time frightened and excited by powerful women, because we know deep down inside the fiber of our beings that women are more intelligent, powerful and complete than men. Only in the physical realm do we have the upper hand (and even that is questionable, and women are catching up there too).
The power of woman is a natural thing. It is sobering to realize how weak man, when woman chooses to wield her power. Having a penis is definitely not an advantage, only a further weakness and liability that reduces man to buckle under female strength.
You believe in essentialist female superiority? You don't think if we were given the power men have we'd exploit it just as much? White women already exploit people of color. And Valerie Solanas, b/c of jealousy in not being included in his clique, shot Andy Warhol and justified it with her theories. Though the SCUM manifesto is still an important historical work.
@marginalutility I think we already have the power. Many whites exploit many people of color just because they have propagated a myth that whites are superior. True, Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol, but there were various reasons at play here beyond jealousy of not being in his clique--I think her history of serious abuse and mental illness were far more significant contributing factors. Very few people actually shoot someone and I don't think Solanas is an accurate representation of how someone would act if s/he followed the ideas outlined in the manifesto.
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