Solanas, Valerie. SCUM Manifesto. 1967. Intro by Avital Ronell. New York: Verso, 2004. 35-80. Print.

• "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" (35).
• "The male claim that females find fulfillment through motherhood, and sexuality reflects what males think they'd find fulfilling if they were female" (38).
• "Leisure time horrifies the male, who will have nothing to do but contemplate his grotesque self" (40).
• "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" (41).
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  en expect women to adore what men shrink from in horror--themselves" (45).
• "Being empty, not being a complete, separate being, having no self to groove on and needing to be constantly in female company, he [the male] 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" (48).
• "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 cooperating 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" (49).
• "Men cannot cooperate to achieve a common end, because each man's end is all the pussy for himself" (50).
• "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" (52).
• "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" (57).
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  nable to create or relate, they [the 'cultivated'] 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" (59).
• "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" (60).
• An example of a man in the Men's Auxiliary is a man who tells women that "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)" (73).