Classic Lit 101: The Scum Manifesto (for the ladies' enjoyment)

From: none@yerbiz (Legume)
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 02:18:27 -0000

Valerie Solanas' SCUM ManifestoThe Scum Manifesto
by Valerie Solanas

"Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto was written in 1967 and
published in 1968, the year she shot and wounded Andy
Warhol. The text used here is that of the 1983 edition of
the Manifesto that was published by the Matriarchy Study
Group."

The SCUM Manifesto
by Valerie Solanas

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. It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of
males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must
begin immediately to do so. Retaining the mail has not even the dubious
purpose of reproduction. 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 male is completely egocentric, trapped
inside himself, incapable of empathizing or identifying with others, or
love, friendship, affection of tenderness. He is a completely isolated
unit, incapable of rapport with anyone. His responses are entirely
visceral, not cerebral; his intelligence is a mere tool in the services
of his drives and needs; he is incapable of mental passion, mental
interaction; he can't relate to anything other than his own physical
sensations. He is a half-dead, unresponsive lump, incapable of giving or
receiving pleasure or happiness; consequently, he is at best an utter
bore, an inoffensive blob, since only those capable of absorption in
others can be charming. He is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between
humans and apes, and is far worse off than the apes because, unlike the
apes, he is capable of a large array of negative feelings -- hate,
jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, doubt -- and moreover, he is
aware of what he is and what he isn't. Although completely physical, the
male is unfit even for stud service. Even assuming mechanical
proficiency, which few men have, he is, first of all, incapable of
zestfully, lustfully, tearing off a piece, but instead is eaten up with
guilt, shame, fear and insecurity, feelings rooted in male nature, which
the most enlightened training can only minimize; second, the physical
feeling he attains is next to nothing; and third, he is not empathizing
with his partner, but is obsessed with how he's doing, turning in an A
performance, doing a good plumbing job. To call a man an animal is to
flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men
use women. Use them for what? Surely not pleasure.
Eaten up with guilt, shame, fears and insecurities and obtaining, if he's
lucky, a barely perceptible physical feeling, the male is, nonetheless,
obsessed with screwing; he'll swim through a river of snot, wade
nostril-deep through a mile of vomit, if he thinks there'll be a friendly
pussy awaiting him. He'll screw a woman he despises, any snaggle-toothed
hag, and furthermore, pay for the opportunity. Why? Relieving physical
tension isn't the answer, as masturbation suffices for that. It's not ego
satisfaction; that doesn't explain screwing corpses and babies.
Completely egocentric, unable to relate, empathize or identify, and
filled with a vast, pervasive, diffuse sexuality, the male is pyschically
passive. He hates his passivity, so he projects it onto women, defines
the make as active, then sets out to prove that he is (`prove that he is
a Man'). His main means of attempting to prove it is screwing (Big Man
with a Big Dick tearing off a Big Piece). Since he's attempting to prove
an error, he must `prove' it again and again. Screwing, then, is a
desperate compulsive, attempt to prove he's not passive, not a woman; but
he is passive and does want to be a woman. Being an incomplete female,
the male spends his life attempting to complete himself, to become
female. He attempts to do this by constantly seeking out, fraternizing
with and trying to live through an fuse with the female, and by claiming
as his own all female characteristics -- emotional strength and
independence, forcefulness, dynamism, decisiveness, coolness,
objectivity, assertiveness, courage, integrity, vitality, intensity,
depth of character, grooviness, etc -- and projecting onto women all male
traits -- vanity, frivolity, triviality, weakness, etc. It should be
said, though, that the male has one glaring area of superiority over the
female -- public relations. (He has done a brilliant job of convincing
millions of women that men are women and women are men). The male claim
that females find fulfillment through motherhood and sexuality reflects
what males think they'd find fulfilling if they were female.
Women, in other words, don't have penis envy; men have pussy envy. When
the male accepts his passivity, defines himself as a woman (males as well
as females thing men are women and women are men), and becomes a
transvestite he loses his desire to screw (or to do anything else, for
that matter; he fulfills himself as a drag queen) and gets his dick
chopped off. He then achieves a continuous diffuse sexual feeling from
`being a woman'. Screwing is, for a man, a defense against his desire to
be female. He is responsible for: War: The male's normal compensation for
not being female, namely, getting his Big Gun off, is grossly inadequate,
as he can get it off only a very limited number of times; so he gets it
off on a really massive scale, and proves to the entire world that he's a
`Man'. Since he has no compassion or ability to empathize or identify,
proving his manhood is worth an endless amount of mutilation and
suffering and an endless number of lives, including his own -- his own
life being worthless, he would rather go out in a blaze of glory than to
plod grimly on for fifty more years.
Niceness, Politeness, and `Dignity': Every man, deep down, knows he's a
worthless piece of shit. Overwhelmed by a sense of animalism and deeply
ashamed of it; wanting, not to express himself, but to hide from others
his total physicality, total egocentricity, the hate and contempt he
feels for other men, and to hide from himself the hate and contempt he
suspects other men feel for him; having a crudely constructed nervous
system that is easily upset by the least display of emotion or feeling,
the male tries to enforce a `social' code that ensures perfect blandness,
unsullied by the slightest trace or feeling or upsetting opinion. He uses
terms like `copulate', `sexual congress', `have relations with' (to men
sexual relations is a redundancy), overlaid with stilted manners; the
suit on the chimp. Money, Marriage and Prostitution, Work and Prevention
of an Automated Society: There is no human reason for money or for anyone
to work more than two or three hours a week at the very most. All
non-creative jobs (practically all jobs now being done) could have been
automated long ago, and in a moneyless society everyone can have as much
of the best of everything as she wants. But there are non-human, male
reasons for wanting to maintain the money system:
Pussy. Despising his highly inadequate self, overcome with intense
anxiety and a deep, profound loneliness when by his empty self,
desperate to attach himself to any female in dim hopes of completing
himself, in the mystical belief that by touching gold he'll turn to
gold, the male craves the continuous companionship of women. The
company of the lowest female is preferable to his own or that of other
men, who serve only to remind him of his repulsiveness. But females,
unless very young or very sick, must be coerced or bribed into male
company. Supply the non-relating male with the delusion of usefulness,
and enable him to try to justify his existence by digging holes and
then filling them up. Leisure time horrifies the male, who will have
nothing to do but contemplate his grotesque self. Unable to relate or
to love, the male must work. Females crave absorbing, emotionally
satisfying, meaningful activity, but lacking the opportunity or ability
for this, they prefer to idle and waste away their time in ways of
their own choosing -- sleeping, shopping, bowling, shooting pool,
playing cards and other games, breeding, reading, walking around,
daydreaming, eating, playing with themselves, popping pills, going to
the movies, getting analyzed, traveling, raising dogs and cats, lolling
about on the beach, swimming, watching TV, listening to music,
decorating their houses, gardening, sewing, nightclubbing, dancing,
visiting, `improving their minds' (taking courses), and absorbing
`culture' (lectures, plays, concerts, `arty' movies). Therefore, many
females would, even assuming complete economic equality between the
sexes, prefer living with males or peddling their asses on the street,
thus having most of their time for themselves, to spending many hours
of their days doing boring, stultifying, non-creative work for someone
else, functioning as less than animals, as machines, or, at best -- if
able to get a `good' job -- co-managing the shitpile. What will
liberate women, therefore, from male control is the total elimination
of the money-work system, not the attainment of economic equality with
men within it. Power and control. Unmasterful in his personal relations
with women, the male attains to masterfulness by the manipulation of
money and everything controlled by money, in other words, of everything
and everybody. Love substitute. Unable to give love or affection, the
male gives money. It makes him feel motherly. The mother gives milk; he
gives bread. He is the Breadwinner.
Provide the male with a goal. Incapable of enjoying the moment, the
male needs something to look forward to, and money provides him with an
eternal, never-ending goal: Just think of what you could do with 80
trillion dollars -- invest it! And in three years time you'd have 300
trillion dollars!!! Provide the basis for the male's major opportunity
to control and manipulate -- fatherhood.
Fatherhood and Mental Illness (fear, cowardice, timidity, humility,
insecurity, passivity): Mother wants what's best for her kids; Daddy only
wants what's best for Daddy, that is peace and quiet, pandering to his
delusion of dignity (`respect'), a good reflection on himself (status)
and the opportunity to control and manipulate, or, if he's an
`enlightened' father, to `give guidance'. His daughter, in addition, he
wants sexually -- he givers her hand in marriage; the other part is for
him. Daddy, unlike Mother, can never give in to his kids, as he must, at
all costs, preserve his delusion of decisiveness, forcefulness,
always-rightness and strength. Never getting one's way leads to lack of
self-confidence in one's ability to cope with the world and to a passive
acceptance of the status quo. Mother loves her kids, although she
sometimes gets angry, but anger blows over quickly and even while it
exists, doesn't preclude love and basic acceptance. Emotionally diseased
Daddy doesn't love his kids; he approves of them -- if they're `good',
that is, if they're nice, `respectful', obedient, subservient to his
will, quiet and not given to unseemly displays of temper that would be
most upsetting to Daddy's easily disturbed male nervous system -- in
other words, if they're passive vegetables. If they're not `good', he
doesn't get angry -- not if he's a modern, `civilized' father (the
old-fashioned ranting, raving brute is preferable, as he is so ridiculous
he can be easily despised) -- but rather express disapproval, a state
that, unlike anger, endures and precludes a basic acceptance, leaving the
kid with the feeling of worthlessness and a lifelong obsession wit being
approved of; the result is fear of independent thought, as this leads to
unconventional, disapproved of opinions and way of life.
For the kid to want Daddy's approval it must respect Daddy, and being
garbage, Daddy can make sure that he is respected only by remaining
aloof, by distantness, by acting on the precept of `familiarity breeds
contempt', which is, of course, true, if one is contemptible. By being
distant and aloof, he is able to remain unknown, mysterious, and thereby,
to inspire fear (`respect'). Disapproval of emotional `scenes' leads to
fear of strong emotion, fear of one's own anger and hatred. Fear of anger
and hatred combined with a lack of self-confidence in one's ability to
cope with and change the world, or even to affect in the slightest way
one's own destiny, leads to a mindless belief that the world and most
people in it are nice and the most banal, trivial amusements are great
fun and deeply pleasurable. The affect of fatherhood on males,
specifically, is to make them `Men', that is, highly defensive of all
impulses to passivity, faggotry, and of desires to be female. Every boy
wants to imitate his mother, be her, fuse with her, but Daddy forbids
this; he is the mother; he gets to fuse with her. So he tells the boy,
sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly, to not be a sissy, to act like
a `Man'. The boy, scared shitless of and `respecting' his father,
complies, and becomes just like Daddy, that model of `Man'-hood, the
all-American ideal -- the well-behaved heterosexual dullard.
The effect of fatherhood on females is to make them male -- dependent,
passive, domestic, animalistic, insecure, approval and security seekers,
cowardly, humble, `respectful' of authorities and men, closed, not fully
responsive, half-dead, trivial, dull, conventional, flattened-out and
thoroughly contemptible. Daddy's Girl, always tense and fearful, uncool,
unanalytical, lacking objectivity, appraises Daddy, and thereafter, other
men, against a background of fear (`respect') and is not only unable to
see the empty shell behind the facade, but accepts the male definition of
himself as superior, as a female, and of herself, as inferior, as a male,
which, thanks to Daddy, she really is.
It is the increase of fatherhood, resulting from the increased and more
widespread affluence that fatherhood needs in order to thrive, that has
caused the general increase of mindlessness and the decline of women in
the United States since the 1920s. The close association of affluence
with fatherhood has led, for the most part, to only the wrong girls,
namely, the `privileged' middle class girls, getting `educated'.
The effect of fathers, in sum, has been to corrode the world with
maleness. The male has a negative Midas Touch -- everything he touches
turns to shit. Suppression of Individuality, Animalism (domesticity and
motherhood), and Functionalism: The male is just a bunch of conditioned
reflexes, incapable of a mentally free response; he is tied to he
earliest conditioning, determined completely by his past experiences. His
earliest experiences are with his mother, and he is throughout his life
tied to her. It never becomes completely clear to the make that he is not
part of his mother, that he is he and she is she.
His greatest need is to be guided, sheltered, protected and admired by
Mama (men expect women to adore what men shrink from in horror --
themselves) and, being completely physical, he yearns to spend his time
(that's not spent `out in the world' grimly defending against his
passivity) wallowing in basic animal activities -- eating, sleeping,
shitting, relaxing and being soothed by Mama. Passive, rattle-headed
Daddy's Girl, ever eager for approval, for a pat on the head, for the
`respect' if any passing piece of garbage, is easily reduced to Mama,
mindless ministrator to physical needs, soother of the weary, apey brow,
booster of the tiny ego, appreciator of the contemptible, a hot water
bottle with tits.
The reduction to animals of the women of the most backward segment of
society -- the `privileged, educated' middle-class, the backwash of
humanity -- where Daddy reigns supreme, has been so thorough that they
try to groove on labour pains and lie around in the most advanced nation
in the world in the middle of the twentieth century with babies chomping
away on their tits. It's not for the kids sake, though, that the
`experts' tell women that Mama should stay home and grovel in animalism,
but for Daddy's; the tits for Daddy to hang onto; the labor pains for
Daddy to vicariously groove on (half dead, he needs awfully strong
stimuli to make him respond). Reducing the female to an animal, to Mama,
to a male, is necessary for psychological as well as practical reasons:
the male is a mere member of the species, interchangeable with every
other male. He has no deep-seated individuality, which stems from what
intrigues you, what outside yourself absorbs you, what you're in relation
to. Completely self-absorbed, capable of being in relation only to their
bodies and physical sensations, males differ from each other only to the
degree and in the ways they attempt to defend against their passivity and
against their desire to be female. 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. In actual fact, the female
function is to relate, groove, love and be herself, irreplaceable by
anyone else; the male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm
banks. In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover,
invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music -- all with love. In other
words, create a magic world.
Prevention of Privacy: Although the male, being ashamed of what he is and
almost of everything he does, insists on privacy and secrecy in all
aspects of his life, he has no real regard for privacy. Being empty, not
being a complete, separate being, having no self to groove on and needing
to be constantly in female company, he sees nothing at all wrong in
intruding himself on any woman's thoughts, even a total stranger's,
anywhere at any time, but rather feels indignant and insulted when put
down for doing so, as well as confused -- he can't, for the life of him,
understand why anyone would prefer so much as one minute of solitude to
the company of any creep around. Wanting to become a woman, he strives to
be constantly around females, which is the closest he can get to becoming
one, so he created a `society' based upon the family -- a male-female
could and their kids (the excuse for the family's existence), who live
virtually on top of one another, unscrupuluously violating the females'
rights, privacy and sanity. Isolation, Suburbs, and Prevention of
Community: Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of
isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave
him if she is exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling
life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little
civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection
of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation enables him to try to
maintain his pretense of being an individual nu becoming a `rugged
individualist', a loner, equating non-cooperation and solitariness with
individuality.
There is yet another reason for the male to isolate himself: every man is
an island. Trapped inside himself, emotionally isolated, unable to
relate, the male has a horror of civilization, people, cities, situations
requiring an ability to understand and relate to people. So like a scared
rabbit, he scurries off, dragging Daddy's little asshole with him to the
wilderness, suburbs, or, in the case of the hippy -- he's way out, Man!
-- all the way out to the cow pasture where he can fuck and breed
undisturbed and mess around with his beads and flute.
The `hippy', whose desire to be a `Man', a `rugged individualist', isn't
quite as strong as the average man's, and who, in addition, is excited by
the thought having lots of women accessible to him, rebels against the
harshness of a Breadwinner's life and the monotony of one woman. In the
name of sharing and cooperation, he forms a commune or tribe, which, for
all its togetherness and partly because of it, (the commune, being an
extended family, is an extended violation of the female's rights, privacy
and sanity) is no more a community than normal `society'.
A true community consists of individuals -- not mere species members, not
couples -- respecting each others individuality and privacy, at the same
time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally -- free spirits
in free relation to each other -- and co-operating with each other to
achieve common ends. Traditionalists say the basic unit of `society' is
the family; `hippies' say the tribe; no one says the individual.
The `hippy' babbles on about individuality, but has no more conception of
it than any other man. He desires to get back to Nature, back to the
wilderness, back to the home of furry animals that he's one of, away from
the city, where there is at least a trace, a bare beginning of
civilization, to live at the species level, his time taken up with
simple, non-intellectual activities -- farming, fucking, bead stringing.
The most important activity of the commune, the one upon which it is
based, is gang-banging. The `hippy' is enticed to the commune mainly by
the prospect for free pussy -- the main commodity to be shared, to be had
just for the asking, but, blinded by greed, he fails to anticipate all
the other men he has to share with, or the jealousies and possessiveness
for the pussies themselves. Men cannot co-operate to achieve a common
end, because each man's end is all the pussy for himself. The commune,
therefore, is doomed to failure; each `hippy' will, in panic, grad the
first simpleton who digs him and whisks her off to the suburbs as fast as
he can. The male cannot progress socially, but merely swings back and
forth from isolation to gang-banging. Conformity: Although he wants to be
an individual, the male is scared of anything in himself that is the
slightest bit different from other men, it causes him to suspect that
he's not really a `Man', that he's passive and totally sexual, a highly
upsetting suspicion. If other men are "A" and he's not, he must not be a
man; he must be a fag. So he tries to affirm his `Manhood' by being like
all the other men. Differentness in other men, as well as himself,
threatens him; it means they're fags whom he must at all costs avoid, so
he tries to make sure that all other men conform.
The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his
passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest out
male is the drag queen, but he, although different from most men, is
exactly like all the other drag queens like the functionalist, he has an
identity -- he is female. He tries to define all his troubles away -- but
still no individuality. Not completely convinced that he's a woman,
highly insecure about being sufficiently female, he conforms compulsively
to the man-made stereotype, ending up as nothing but a bundle of stilted
mannerisms. To be sure he's a `Man', the male must see to it that the
female be clearly a `Woman', the opposite of a `Man', that is, the female
must act like a faggot. And Daddy's Girl, all of whose female instincts
were wrenched out of her when little, easily and obligingly adapts
herself to the role. Authority and Government: Having no sense of right
and wrong, no conscience, which can only stem from having an ability to
empathize with others... having no faith in his non-existent self, being
unnecessarily competitive, and by nature, unable to co-operate, the male
feels a need for external guidance and control. So he created authorities
-- priests, experts, bosses, leaders, etc -- and government. Wanting the
female (Mama) to guide him, but unable to accept this fact (he is, after
all, a MAN), wanting to play Woman, to usurp her function as Guider and
Protector, he sees to it that all authorities are male. There's no reason
why a society consisting of rational beings capable of empathizing with
each other, complete and having no natural reason to compete, should have
a government, laws or leaders. Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Based
on Sex: The male's inability to relate to anybody or anything makes his
life pointless and meaningless (the ultimate male insight is that life is
absurd), so he invented philosophy and religion. Being empty, he looks
outward, not only for guidance and control, but for salvation and for the
meaning of life. Happiness being for him impossible on this earth, he
invented Heaven. For a man, having no ability to empathize with others
and being totally sexual, `wrong' is sexual `license' and engaging in
`deviant' (`unmanly') sexual practices, that is, not defending against
his passivity and total sexuality which, if indulged, would destroy
`civilization', since `civilization' is based entirely upon the male need
to defend himself against these characteristics. For a woman (according
to men), `wrong' is any behavior that would entice men into sexual
`license' -- that is, not placing male needs above her own and not being
a faggot.
Religion not only provides the male with a goal (Heaven) and helps keep
women tied to men, but offers rituals through which he can try to expiate
the guilt and shame he feels at not defending himself enough against his
sexual impulses; in essence, that guilt and shame he feels at being male.
Most men men, utterly cowardly, project their inherent weaknesses onto
women, label them female weaknesses and believe themselves to have female
strengths; most philosophers, not quite so cowardly, face the fact that
make lacks exist in men, but still can't face the fact that they exist in
men only. So they label the male condition the Human Condition, post
their nothingness problem, which horrifies them, as a philosophical
dilemma, thereby giving stature to their animalism, grandiloquently label
their nothingness their `Identity Problem', and proceed to prattle on
pompously about the `Crisis of the Individual', the `Essence of Being',
`Existence preceding Essence', `Existential Modes of Being', etc. etc.
A woman not only takes her identity and individuality for granted, but
knows instinctively that the only wrong is to hurt others, and that the
meaning of life is love.
Prejudice (racial, ethnic, religious, etc): The male needs scapegoats
onto whom he can project his failings and inadequacies and upon whom he
can vent his frustration at not being female. And the vicarious
discriminations have the practical advantage of substantially increasing
the pussy pool available to the men on top.
Competition, Prestige, Status, Formal Education, Ignorance and Social and
Economic Classes: Having an obsessive desire to be admired by women, but
no intrinsic worth, the make constructs a highly artificial society
enabling him to appropriate the appearance of worth through money,
prestige, `high' social class, degrees, professional position and
knowledge and, by pushing as many other men as possible down
professionally, socially, economically, and educationally.
The purpose of `higher' education is not to educate but to exclude as
many as possible from the various professions.
The male, totally physical, incapable of mental rapport, although able to
understand and use knowledge and ideas, is unable to relate to them, to
grasp them emotionally: he does not value knowledge and ideas for their
own sake (they're just means to ends) and, consequently, feels no need
for mental companions, no need to cultivate the intellectual
potentialities of others. On the contrary, the male has a vested interest
in ignorance; it gives the few knowledgeable men a decided edge on the
unknowledgeable ones, and besides, the male knows that an enlightened,
aware female population will mean the end of him. The healthy, conceited
female wants the company of equals whom she can respect and groove on;
the male and the sick, insecure, unself-confident male female crave the
company of worms. No genuine social revolution can be accomplished by the
male, as the male on top wants the status quo, and all the male on the
bottom wants is to be the male on top. The male `rebel' is a farce; this
is the male's `society', made by him to satisfy his needs. He's never
satisfied, because he's not capable of being satisfied. Ultimately, what
the male `rebel' is rebelling against is being male. The male changes
only when forced to do so by technology, when he has no choice, when
`society' reaches the stage where he must change or die. We're at that
stage now; if women don't get their asses in gear fast, we may very well
all die.
Prevention of Conversation: Being completely self-centered and unable to
relate to anything outside himself, the male's `conversation', when not
about himself, is an impersonal droning on, removed from anything of
human value. Male `intellectual conversation' is a strained compulsive
attempt to impress the female.
Daddy's Girl, passive, adaptable, respectful of and in awe of the male,
allows him to impose his hideously dull chatter on her. This is not too
difficult for her, as the tension and anxiety, the lack of cool, the
insecurity and self-doubt, the unsureness of her own feelings and
sensations that Daddy instilled in her make her perceptions superficial
and render her unable to see that the male's babble is babble; like the
aesthete `appreciating' the blob that's labeled `Great Art', she believes
she's grooving on what bores the shit out of her. Not only does she
permit his babble to dominate, she adapts her own `conversation'
accordingly. Trained from an early childhood in niceness, politeness and
`dignity', in pandering to the male need to disguise his animalism, she
obligingly reduces her own `conversation' to small talk, a bland, insipid
avoidance of any topic beyond the utterly trivial -- or is `educated', to
`intellectual' discussion, that is, impersonal discoursing on irrelevant
distractions -- the Gross National Product, the Common Market, the
influence of Rimbaud on symbolist painting. So adept is she at pandering
that it eventually becomes second nature and she continues to pander to
men even when in the company of other females only. Apart from pandering,
her `conversation' is further limited by her insecurity about expressing
deviant, original opinions and the self-absorption based on insecurity
and that prevents her conversation from being charming. Niceness,
politeness, `dignity', insecurity and self-absorption are hardly
conducive to intensity and wit, qualities a conversation must have to be
worthy of the name. Such conversation is hardly rampant, as only
completely self-confident, arrogant, outgoing, proud, tough-minded
females are capable of intense, bitchy, witty conversation.
Prevention of Friendship (Love): Men have contempt for themselves, for
all other men whom they contemplate more than casually and whom they do
not think are females, (for example `sympathetic' analysts and `Great
Artists') or agents of God and for all women who respect and pander to
them: the insecure, approval-seeking, pandering male-females have
contempt for themselves and for all women like them: the self-confident,
swinging, thrill-seeking female females have contempt for me and for the
pandering male females. In short, contempt is the order of the day.
Love is not dependency or sex, but friendship, and therefore, love can't
exist between two males, between a male and a female, or between two
females, one or both of whom is a mindless, insecure, pandering male;
like conversation, live can exist only between two secure, free-wheeling,
independent groovy female females, since friendship is based upon
respect, not contempt. Even amongst groovy females deep friendships
seldom occur in adulthood, as almost all of them are either tied up with
men in order to survive economically, or bogged down in hacking their way
through the jungle and in trying to keep their heads about the amorphous
mass. Love can't flourish in a society based upon money and meaningless
work: it requires complete economic as well as personal freedom, leisure
time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally
satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to
deep friendship. Our `society' provides practically no opportunity to
engage in such activities. Having stripped the world of conversation,
friendship and love, the male offers us these paltry substitutes:
`Great Art' and `Culture': The male `artist' attempts to solve his
dilemma of not being able to live, of not being female, by constructing a
highly artificial world in which the male is heroized, that is, displays
female traits, and the female is reduced to highly limited, insipid
subordinate roles, that is, to being male.
The male `artistic' aim being, not to communicate (having nothing inside
him he has nothing to say), but to disguise his animalism, he resorts to
symbolism and obscurity (`deep' stuff). The vast majority of people,
particularly the `educated' ones, lacking faith in their own judgment,
humble, respectful of authority (`Daddy knows best'), are easily conned
into believing that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility,
indirectness, ambiguity and boredom are marks of depth and brilliance.
`Great Art' proves that men are superior to women, that men are women,
being labeled `Great Art', almost all of which, as the anti-feminists are
fond of reminding us, was created by men. We know that `Great Art' is
great because male authorities have told us so, and we can't claim
otherwise, as only those with exquisite sensitivities far superior to
ours can perceive and appreciated the slop they appreciated.
Appreciating is the sole diversion of the `cultivated'; passive and
incompetent, lacking imagination and wit, they must try to make do with
that; unable to create their own diversions, to create a little world of
their own, to affect in the smallest way their environments, they must
accept what's given; unable to create or relate, they spectate. Absorbing
`culture' is a desperate, frantic attempt to groove in an ungroovy world,
to escape the horror of a sterile, mindless, existence. `Culture'
provides a sop to the egos of the incompetent, a means of rationalizing
passive spectating; they can pride themselves on their ability to
appreciate the `finer' things, to see a jewel where this is only a turd
(they want to be admired for admiring). Lacking faith in their ability to
change anything, resigned to the status quo, they have to see beauty in
turds because, so far as they can see, turds are all they'll ever have.
The veneration of `Art' and `Culture' -- besides leading many women into
boring, passive activity that distracts from more important and rewarding
activities, from cultivating active abilities, and leads to the constant
intrusion on our sensibilities of pompous dissertations on the deep
beauty of this and that turn. This allows the `artist' to be setup as one
possessing superior feelings, perceptions, insights and judgments,
thereby undermining the faith of insecure women in the value and validity
of their own feelings, perceptions, insights and judgments.
The male, having a very limited range of feelings, and consequently, very
limited perceptions, insights and judgments, needs the `artist' to guide
him, to tell him what life is all about. But the male `artist' being
totally sexual, unable to relate to anything beyond his own physical
sensations, having nothing to express beyond the insight that for the
male life is meaningless and absurd, cannot be an artist. How can he who
is not capable of life tell us what life is all about? A `male artist' is
a contradiction in terms. A degenerate can only produce degenerate `art'.
The true artist is every self-confident, healthy female, and in a female
society the only Art, the only Culture, will be conceited, kooky, funky,
females grooving on each other and on everything else in the universe.
Sexuality: Sex is not part of a relationship: on the contrary, it is a
solitary experience, non-creative, a gross waste of time. The female can
easily -- far more easily than she may think -- condition away her sex
drive, leaving her completely cool and cerebral and free to pursue truly
worthy relationships and activities; but the male, who seems to dig women
sexually and who seeks out constantly to arouse them, stimulates the
highly sexed female to frenzies of lust, throwing her into a sex bag from
which few women ever escape. The lecherous male excited the lustful
female; he has to -- when the female transcends her body, rises above
animalism, the male, whose ego consists of his cock, will disappear.
Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the
more deeply embedded in the male `culture', in short, the nicer she is,
the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our `society' are raving sex
maniacs. But, being just awfully, awfully nice, they don't, of course
descend to fucking -- that's uncouth -- rather they make love, commune by
means of their bodies and establish sensual rapport; the literary ones
are attuned to the throb of Eros and attain a clutch upon the Universe;
the religious have spiritual communion with the Divine Sensualism; the
mystics merge with the Erotic Principle and blend with the Cosmos, and
the acid heads contact their erotic cells. On the other hand, those
females least embedded in the male `Culture', the least nice, those crass
and simple souls who reduce fucking to fucking, who are too childish for
the grown-up world of suburbs, mortgages, mops and baby shit, too selfish
to raise kids and husbands, too uncivilized to give a shit for anyones
opinion of them, too arrogant to respect Daddy, the `Greats' or the deep
wisdom of the Ancients, who trust only their own animal, gutter
instincts, who equate Culture with chicks, whose sole diversion is
prowling for emotional thrills and excitement, who are given to
disgusting, nasty upsetting `scenes', hateful, violent bitches given to
slamming those who unduly irritate them in the teeth, who'd sink a shiv
into a man's chest or ram an icepick up his asshole as soon as look at
him, if they knew they could get away with it, in short, those who, by
the standards of our `culture' are SCUM... these females are cool and
relatively cerebral and skirting asexuality.
Unhampered by propriety, niceness, discretion, public opinion, `morals',
the respect of assholes, always funky, dirty, low-down SCUM gets
around... and around and around... they've seen the whole show -- every
bit of it -- the fucking scene, the dyke scene -- they've covered the
whole waterfront, been under every dock and pier -- the peter pier, the
pussy pier... you've got to go through a lot of sex to get to anti-sex,
and SCUM's been through it all, and they're now ready for a new show;
they want to crawl out from other the dock, move, take off, sink out. But
SCUM doesn't yet prevail; SCUM's still in the gutter of our `society',
which, if it's not deflected from its present course and if the Bomb
doesn't drop on it, will hump itself to death. Boredom: Life in a society
made by and for creatures who, when they are not grim and depressing are
utter bores, van only be, when not grim and depressing, an utter bore.
Secrecy, Censorship, Suppression of Knowledge and Ideas, and Exposes:
Every male's deep-seated, secret, most hideous fear is of being
discovered to be not a female, but a male, a subhuman animal. Although
niceness, politeness and `dignity' suffice to prevent his exposure on a
personal level, in order to prevent the general exposure of the male sex
as a whole and to maintain his unnatural dominant position position in
`society', the male must resort to:
Censorship. Responding reflexively to isolated works and phrases rather
than cereberally to overall meanings, the male attempts to prevent the
arousal and discovery of his animalism by censoring not only
`pornography', but any work containing `dirty' words, no matter in what
context they are used. Suppression of all ideas and knowledge that
might expose him or threaten his dominant position in `society'. Much
biological and psychological data is suppressed, because it is proof of
the male's gross inferiority to the female. Also, the problem of mental
illness will never be solved while the male maintains control, because
first, men have a vested interest in it -- only females who have very
few of their marbles will allow males the slightest bit of control over
anything, and second, the male cannot admit to the role that fatherhood
plays in causing mental illness. Exposes. The male's chief delight in
life -- insofar as the tense, grim male can ever be said to delight in
anything -- is in exposing others. It doesn't' much matter what they're
exposed as, so long as they're exposed; it distracts attention from
himself. Exposing others as enemy agents (Communists and Socialists) is
one of his favorite pastimes, as it removes the source of the threat to
him not only from himself, but from the country and the Western world.
The bugs up his ass aren't in him, they're in Russia.
Distrust: Unable to empathize or feel affection or loyalty, being
exclusively out for himself, the male has no sense of fair play;
cowardly, needing constantly to pander to the female to win her approval,
that he is helpless without, always on the edge lest his animalism, his
maleness be discovered, always needing to cover up, he must lie
constantly; being empty he has not honor or integrity -- he doesn't know
what those words mean. The male, in short, is treacherous, and the only
appropriate attitude in a male `society' is cynicism and distrust.
Ugliness: Being totally sexual, incapable of cerebral or aesthetic
responses, totally materialistic and greedy, the male, besides inflicting
on the world `Great Art', has decorated his unlandscaped cities with ugly
buildings (both inside and out), ugly decors, billboards, highways, cars,
garbage trucks, and, most notably, his own putrid self.
Hatred and Violence: The male is eaten up with tension, with frustration
at not being female, at not being capable of ever achieving satisfaction
or pleasure of any kind; eaten up with hate -- not rational hate that is
directed at those who abuse or insult you -- but irrational,
indiscriminate hate... hatred, at bottom, of his own worthless self.
Gratuitous violence, besides `proving' he's a `Man', serves as an outlet
for his hate and, in addition -- the male being capable only of sexual
responses and needing very strong stimuli to stimulate his half-dead self
-- provides him with a little sexual thrill..
Disease and Death: All diseases are curable, and the aging process and
death are due to disease; it is possible, therefore, never to age and to
live forever. In fact the problems of aging and death could be solved
within a few years, if an all-out, massive scientific assault were made
upon the problem. This, however, will not occur with the male
establishment because:
The many male scientists who shy away from biological research,
terrified of the discovery that males are females, and show marked
preference for virile, `manly' war and death programs.
The discouragement of many potential scientists from scientific careers
by the rigidity, boringness, expensiveness, time-consumingness, and
unfair exclusivity of our `higher' educational system.
Propaganda disseminated by insecure male professionals, who jealously
guard their positions, so that only a highly select few can comprehend
abstract scientific concepts.
Widespread lack of self-confidence brought about by the father system
that discourages many talented girls from becoming scientists.
Lack of automation. There now exists a wealth of data which, if sorted
out and correlated, would reveal the cure for cancer and several other
diseases and possibly the key to life itself. But the data is so
massive it requires high speed computers to correlate it all. The
institution of computers will be delayed interminably under the male
control system, since the male has a horror of being replaced by
machines. The money systems' insatiable need for new products. Most of
the few scientists around who aren't working on death programs are tied
up doing research for corporations.
The males like death -- it excites him sexually and, already dead
inside, he wants to die.
The bias of the money system for the least creative scientists. Most
scientists come from at least relatively affluent families where Daddy
reigns supreme.
Incapable of a positive state of happiness, which is the only thing that
can justify one's existence, the male is, at best, relaxed, comfortable,
neutral, and this condition is extremely short-lived, as boredom, a
negative state, soon sets in; he is, therefore, doomed to an existence of
suffering relieved only by occasional, fleeting stretches of restfulness,
which state he can only achieve at the expense of some female. The male
is, by his very nature, a leech, an emotional parasite and, therefore,
not ethically entitled to live, as no one as the right to life at someone
else's expense. Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs
by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior
consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The
elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act
highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy. However, this
moral issue will eventually be rendered academic by the fact that the
male is gradually eliminating himself. In addition to engaging in the
time-honored and classical wars and race riots, men are more and more
either becoming fags or are obliterating themselves through drugs. The
female, whether she likes it or not, will eventually take complete
charge, if for no other reason than that she will have to -- the male,
for practical purposes, won't exist.
Accelerating this trend is the fact that more and more males are
acquiring enlightened self-interest; they're realizing more and more that
the female interest is in their interest, that they can live only through
the female and that the more the female is encouraged to live, to fulfill
herself, to be a female and not a male, the more nearly he lives; he's
coming to see that it's easier and more satisfactory to live through her
than to try to become her and usurp her qualities, claim them as his own,
push the female down and claim that she's a male. The fag, who accepts
his maleness, that is, his passivity and total sexuality, his femininity,
is also best served by women being truly female, as it would then be
easier for him to be male, feminine. If men were wise they would seek to
become really female, would do intensive biological research that would
lead to me, by means of operations on the brain and nervous system, being
able t to be transformed in psyche, as well as body, into women. Whether
to continue to use females for reproduction or to reproduce in the
laboratory will also become academic: what will happen when every female,
twelve and over, is routinely taking the Pill and there are no longer any
accidents? How many women will deliberately get or (if an accident)
remain pregnant? No, Virginia, women don't just adore being brood mares,
despite what the mass of robot, brainwashed women will say. When society
consists of only the fully conscious the answer will be none. Should a
certain percentage of men be set aside by force to serve as brood mares
for the species? Obviously this will not do. The answer is laboratory
reproduction of babies. As for the issue of whether or not to continue to
reproduce males, it doesn't follow that because the male, like disease,
has always existed among us that he should continue to exist. When
genetic control is possible -- and soon it will be -- it goes without
saying that we should produce only whole, complete beings, not physical
defects of deficiencies, including emotional deficiencies, such as
maleness. Just as the deliberate production of blind people would be
highly immoral, so would be the deliberate production of emotional
cripples. Why produce even females? Why should there be future
generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated,
why continue to reproduce? Why should we care what happens when we're
dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to succeed
us. Eventually the natural course of events, of social evolution, will
lead to total female control of the world and, subsequently, to the
cessation of the production of males and, ultimately, to the cessation of
the production of females.
But SCUM is impatient; SCUM is not consoled by the thought that future
generations will thrive; SCUM wants to grab some thrilling living for
itself. And, if a large majority of women were SCUM, they could acquire
complete control of this country within a few weeks simply by withdrawing
from the labor force, thereby paralyzing the entire nation. Additional
measures, any one of which would be sufficient to completely disrupt the
economy and everything else, would be for women to declare themselves off
the money system, stop buying, just loot and simply refuse to obey all
laws they don't care to obey. The police force, National Guard, Army,
Navy and Marines combined couldn't squelch a rebellion of over half the
population, particularly when it's made up of people they are utterly
helpless without. If all women simply left men, refused to have anything
to do with any of them -- ever, all men, the government, and the national
economy would collapse completely. Even without leaving men, women who
are aware of the extent of their superiority to and power over men, could
acquire complete control over everything within a few weeks, could effect
a total submission of males to females. In a sane society the male would
trot along obediently after the female. The male is docile and easily
led, easily subjected to the domination of any female who cares to
dominate him. The male, in fact, wants desperately to be led by females,
wants Mama in charge, wants to abandon himself to her care. But this is
not a sane society, and most women are not even dimly aware of where
they're at in relation to men. The conflict, therefore, is not between
females and males, but between SCUM -- dominant, secure, self-confident,
nasty, violent, selfish, independent, proud, thrill-seeking,
free-wheeling, arrogant females, who consider themselves fit to rule the
universe, who have free-wheeled to the limits of this `society' and are
ready to wheel on to something far beyond what it has to offer -- and
nice, passive, accepting `cultivated', polite, dignified, subdued,
dependent, scared, mindless, insecure, approval-seeking Daddy's Girls,
who can't cope with the unknown, who want to hang back with the apes, who
feel secure only with Big Daddy standing by, with a big strong man to
lean on and with a fat, hairy face in the White House, who are too
cowardly to face up to the hideous reality of what a man is, what Daddy
is, who have cast their lot with the swine, who have adapted themselves
to animalism, feel superficially comfortable with it and know no other
way of `life', who have reduced their minds, thoughts and sights to the
male level, who, lacking sense, imagination and wit can have value only
in a male `society', who can have a place in the sun, or, rather, in the
slime, only as soothers, ego boosters, relaxers and breeders, who are
dismissed as inconsequents by other females, who project their
deficiencies, their maleness, onto all females and see the female as
worm. But SCUM is too impatient to wait for the de-brainwashing of
millions of assholes. Why should the swinging females continue to plod
dismally along with the dull male ones? Why should the fates of the
groovy and the creepy be intertwined? Why should the active and
imaginative consult the passive and dull on social policy? Why should the
independent be confined to the sewer along with the dependent who need
Daddy to cling to? A small handful of SCUM can take over the country
within a year by systematically fucking up the system, selectively
destroying property, and murder: SCUM will become members of the unwork
force, the fuck-up force; they will get jobs of various kinds an unwork.
For example, SCUM salesgirls will not charge for merchandise; SCUM
telephone operators will not charge for calls; SCUM office and factory
workers, in addition to fucking up their work, will secretly destroy
equipment. SCUM will unwork at a job until fired, then get a new job to
unwork at.
SCUM will forcibly relieve bus drivers, cab drivers and subway token
sellers of their jobs and run buses and cabs and dispense free tokens to
the public. SCUM will destroy all useless and harmful objects -- cars,
store windows, `Great Art', etc.
Eventually SCUM will take over the airwaves -- radio and TV networks --
by forcibly relieving of their jobs all radio and TV employees who would
impede SCUM's entry into the broadcasting studios.
SCUM will couple-bust -- barge into mixed (male-female) couples, wherever
they are, and bust them up.
SCUM will kill all men who are not in the Men's Auxiliary of SCUM. Men in
the Men's Auxiliary are those men who are working diligently to eliminate
themselves, men who, regardless of their motives, do good, men who are
playing pall with SCUM. A few examples of the men in the Men's Auxiliary
are: men who kill men; biological scientists who are working on
constructive programs, as opposed to biological warfare; journalists,
writers, editors, publishers and producers who disseminate and promote
ideas that will lead to the achievement of SCUM's goals; faggots who, by
their shimmering, flaming example, encourage other men to de-man
themselves and thereby make themselves relatively inoffensive; men who
consistently give things away -- money, things, services; men who tell it
like it is (so far not one ever has), who put women straight, who reveal
the truth about themselves, who give the mindless male females correct
sentences to parrot, who tell them a woman's primary goal in life should
be to squash the male sex (to aid men in this endeavor SCUM will conduct
Turd Sessions, at which every male present will give a speech beginning
with the sentence: `I am a turd, a lowly abject turd', then proceed to
list all the ways in which he is. His reward for doing so will be the
opportunity to fraternize after the session for a whole, solid hour with
the SCUM who will be present. Nice, clean-living male women will be
invited to the sessions to help clarify any doubts and misunderstandings
they may have about the male sex; makers and promoters of sex books and
movies, etc., who are hastening the day when all that will be shown on
the screen will be Suck and Fuck (males, like the rats following the Pied
Piper, will be lured by Pussy to their doom, will be overcome and
submerged by and will eventually drown in the passive flesh that they
are); drug pushers and advocates, who are hastening the dropping out of
men. Being in the Men's Auxiliary is a necessary but not a sufficient
condition for making SCUM's escape list; it's not enough to do good; to
save their worthless asses men must also avoid evil. A few examples of
the most obnoxious or harmful types are: rapists, politicians and all who
are in their service (campaigners, members of political parties, etc);
lousy singers and musicians; Chairmen of Boards; Breadwinners; landlords;
owners of greasy spoons and restaraunts that play Muzak; `Great Artists';
cheap pikers and welchers; cops; tycoons; scientists working on death and
destruction programs or for private industry (practically all
scientists); liars and phonies; disc jockies; men who intrude themselves
in the slightest way on any strange female; real estate men; stock
brokers; men who speak when they have nothing to say; men who sit idly on
the street and mar the landscape with their presence; double dealers;
flim-flam artists; litterbugs; plagiarisers; men who in the slightest way
harm any female; all men in the advertising industry; psychiatrists and
clinical psychologists; dishonest writers, journalists, editors,
publishers, etc.; censors on both the public and private levels; all
members of the armed forces, including draftees (LBJ and McNamara give
orders, but servicemen carry them out) and particularly pilots (if the
bomb drops, LBJ won't drop it; a pilot will). In the case of a man whose
behavior falls into both the good and bad categories, an overall
subjective evaluation of him will be made to determine if his behavior
is, in the balance, good or bad.
It is most tempting to pick off the female `Great Artists', liars and
phonies etc along with the men, but that would be inexpedient, as it
would not be clear to most of the public that the female killed was a
male. All women have a fink streak in them, to a greater or lesser
degree, but it stems from a lifetime of living among men. Eliminate men
and women will shape up. Women are improvable; men are no, although their
behavior is. When SCUM gets hot on their asses it'll shape up fast.
Simultaneously with the fucking-up, looting, couple-busting, destroying
and killing, SCUM will recruit. SCUM, then, will consist of recruiters;
the elite corps -- the hard core activists (the fuck-ups, looters and
destroyers) and the elite of the elite -- the killers.
Dropping out is not the answer; fucking-up is. Most women are already
dropped out; they were never in. Dropping out gives control to those few
who don't drop out; dropping out is exactly what the establishment
leaders want; it plays into the hands of the enemy; it strengthens the
system instead of undermining it, since it is based entirely on the
non-participating, passivity, apathy and non-involvement of the mass of
women. Dropping out, however, is an excellent policy for men, and SCUM
will enthusiastically encourage it. Looking inside yourself for
salvation, contemplating your navel, is not, as the Drop Out people would
have you believe, the answer. Happiness likes outside yourself, is
achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be
one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter,
makes a virtue of irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not
only as a good but as a Philosophical Good, and thus gets credit for
being deep. SCUM will not picket, demonstrate, march or strike to attempt
to achieve its ends. Such tactics are for nice, genteel ladies who
scrupulously take only such action as is guaranteed to be ineffective. In
addition, only decent, clean-living male women, highly trained in
submerging themselves in the species, act on a mob basis. SCUM consists
of individuals; SCUM is not a mob, a blob. Only as many SCUM will do a
job as are needed for the job. Also SCUM, being cool and selfish, will
not subject to getting itself rapped on the head with billy clubs; that's
for the nice, `privileged, educated', middle-class ladies with a high
regard for the touching faith in the essential goodness of Daddy and
policemen. If SCUM ever marches, it will be over the President's stupid,
sickening face; if SCUM ever strikes, it will be in the dark with a
six-inch blade.
SCUM will always operate on a criminal as opposed to a civil disobedience
basis, that is, as opposed to openly violating the law and going to jail
in order to draw attention to an injustice. Such tactics acknowledge the
rightness overall system and are used only to modify it slightly, change
specific laws. SCUM is against the entire system, the very idea of law
and government. SCUM is out to destroy the system, not attain certain
rights within it. Also, SCUM -- always selfish, always cool -- will
always aim to avoid detection and punishment. SCUM will always be
furtive, sneaky, underhanded (although SCUM murders will always be known
to be such). Both destruction and killing will be selective and
discriminate. SCUM is against half-crazed, indiscriminate riots, with no
clear objective in mind, and in which many of your own kind are picked
off. SCUM will never instigate, encourage or participate in riots of any
kind or other form of indiscriminate destruction. SCUM will coolly,
furtively, stalk its prey and quietly move in for the kill. Destruction
will never me such as to block off routes needed for the transportation
of food or other essential supplies, contaminate or cut off the water
supply, block streets and traffic to the extent that ambulances can't get
through or impede the functioning of hospitals.
SCUM will keep on destroying, looting, fucking-up and killing until the
money-work system no longer exists and automation is completely
instituted or until enough women co-operate with SCUM to make violence
unnecessary to achieve these goals, that is, until enough women either
unwork or quit work, start looting, leave men and refuse to obey all laws
inappropriate to a truly civilized society. Many women will fall into
line, but many others, who surrendered long ago to the enemy, who are so
adapted to animalism, to maleness, that they like restrictions and
restraints, don't know what to do with freedom, will continue to be
toadies and doormats, just as peasants in rice paddies remain peasants in
rice paddies as one regime topples another. A few of the more volatile
will whimper and sulk and throw their toys and dishrags on the floor, but
SCUM will continue to steamroller over them. A completely automated
society can be accomplished very simply and quickly once there is a
public demand for it. The blueprints for it are already in existence, and
it's construction will take only a few weeks with millions of people
working on it. Even though off the money system, everyone will be most
happy to pitch in and get the automated society built; it will mark the
beginning of a fantastic new era, and there will be a celebration
atmosphere accompanying the construction.
The elimination of money and the complete institution of automation are
basic to all other SCUM reforms; without these two the others can't take
place; with them the others will take place very rapidly. The government
will automatically collapse. With complete automation it will be possible
for every woman to vote directly on every issue by means of an electronic
voting machine in her house. Since the government is occupied almost
entirely with regulating economic affairs and legislating against purely
private matters, the elimination of money wand with it the elimination of
males who wish to legislate `morality' will mean there will be
practically no issues to vote on. After the elimination of money there
will be no further need to kill men; they will be stripped of the only
power they have over psychologically independent females. They will be
able to impose themselves only on the doormats, who like to be imposed
on. The rest of the women will be busy solving the few remaining unsolved
problems before planning their agenda for eternity and Utopia --
completely revamping educational programs so that millions of women can
be trained within a few months for high level intellectual work that now
requires years of training (this can be done very easily once out
educational goal is to educate and not perpetuate an academic and
intellectual elite); solving the problems of disease and old age and
death and completely redesigning our cities and living quarters. Many
women will for a while continue to think they dig men, but as they become
accustomed to female society and as they become absorbed in their
projects, they will eventually come to see the utter uselessnes and
banality of the male. The few remaining men can exist out their puny days
dropped out on drugs or strutting around in drag or passively watching
the high-powered female in action, fulfilling themselves as spectators,
vicarious livers*[FOOTNOTE: It will be electronically possible for him to
tune into any specific female he wants to and follow in detail her every
movement. The females will kindly, obligingly consent to this, as it
won't hurt them in the slightest and it is a marvelously kind and humane
way to treat their unfortunate, handicapped fellow beings.] or breeding
in the cow pasture with the toadies, or they can go off to the nearest
friendly suicide center where they will be quietly, quickly, and
painlessly gassed to death.
Prior to the institution of automation, to the replacement of males by
machines, the male should be of use to the female, wait on her, cater to
her slightest whim, obey her every command, be totally subservient to
her, exist in perfect obedience to her will, as opposed to the completely
warped, degenerate situation we have now of men, not only not only not
existing at all, cluttering up the world with their ignominious presence,
but being pandered to and groveled before by the mass of females,
millions of women piously worshiping the Golden Calf, the dog leading the
master on a leash, when in fact the male, short of being a drag queen, is
least miserable when his dogginess is recognized -- no unrealistic
emotional demands are made of him and the completely together female is
calling the shots. Rational men want to be squashed, stepped on, crushed
and crunched, treated as the curs, the filth that they are, have their
repulsiveness confirmed.
The sick, irrational men, those who attempt to defend themselves against
their disgustingness, when they see SCUM barrelling down on them, will
cling in terror to Big Mama with her Big Bouncy Boobies, but Boobies
won't protect them against SCUM; Big Mama will be clinging to Big Daddy,
who will be in the corner shitting in his forceful, dynamic pants. Men
who are rational, however, won't kick or struggle or raise a distressing
fuss, but will just sit back, relax, enjoy the show and ride the waves to
their demise.

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