The SCUM Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men) was published by Valerie Solanas in 1968. The manifesto was seen as a vitriolic and obscenity-laden assault on men, with the central premise than men were only biological mistakes and solely motivated by their desire for sex with any woman at any time, however it can also be seen as a parody and satire to challenge previous conceptions of women. Many of the accusations that Solanas makes of men were, from a radical feminist point of view, typical views of women at the time.
- 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 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.
- Retaining the male 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, 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.
Sisterhood Is Powerful edited by Robin Morgan included excerpts of the Scum Manifesto. It left out five points with which modern feminists would disagree--but it did say that the good was female and the bad was male:
- male/bad: emotional
- male/bad: animal-like
- female/good: objectivity
- female/good: technology, especially automation and biotechnology intended to make men unnecessary for for production and reproduction.
- male/bad: censorship
