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S.C.U.M. Manifesto - (Society for Cutting Up Men) •
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Valerie Solanas •
1967 •

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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 possible to reproduce without the aid of males
(or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must
begin immediately to do so. 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.
  The male is completely egocentric, trapped inside himself, incapable
of empathizing or identifying with others, of love, friendship,
affection or 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 service 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* or what he is or 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 is instead 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 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
psychically passive. He hates his passivity, so he projects it onto
women, defines the male as active, then sets out to prove that he is
("prove he's 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 and
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 think 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 cock
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. Sex is itself a sublimation.
  The male, because of his obsession to compensate for not being
female combined with his inability to relate and to feel compassion, has
made of the world a shitpile. He is responsible for:
  *War:* The male's normal method of 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 number of lives, including his
own--his own life being worthless, he would rather go out in a blaze of
glory than 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 a perfect
blandness, unsullied by the slightest trace of 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 maintaining the money-work system:
  1. 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.
  2. Supply the non-relating male with the delusion of usefulness,
and enable him to try to justify his existence by digging holes and
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 on the beach,
swimming, watching T.V., 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 somebody 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.
  3. Power and control. Unmasterful in his personal relations with
women, the male attains to general masterfulness by the manipulation of
money and of everything and everybody controlled by money, in other
words, of everything and everybody.
  4. 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.
  5. Provides 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 what you could do
with 80 trillion dollars--Invest it! And in three years time you'd have
300 trillion dollars!!!
  6. Provides 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 gives 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 expresses disapproval,
a state that, unlike anger, endures and precludes a basic acceptance,
leaving the kid with a feeling of worthlessness and a lifelong obsession
with 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 "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, and to a fear of facing reality, as
facing it leads at first to 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 that the most banal, trivial amusements are great fun and
deeply pleasurable.
  The effect 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, nice, 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 aloof 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
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 bundle of conditioned
reflexes, incapable of a mentally free response; he is tied to his early
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 male 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" of any passing piece of garbage, is easily reduced to Mama,
mindless ministrator to physical needs, soother of the weary, apey brow,
booster of the puny 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 labor 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 tit's 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--thereby 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 of
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.
  *Prevention of Privacy:* Although the male, being ashamed of what he
is and of almost 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 on
the family--a male-female couple and their kids (the excuse for the
family's existence), who live virtually on top of one another,
unscrupulously 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 by becoming a "rugged individualist", a
loner, equating non-co-operation 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
along with him to the wilderness, the suburbs, or, in the case of the
"hippie"--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 "hippie", 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 of 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 co-operation, he forms the 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
females' 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 other's 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 "hippie" 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 the 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 on which
it is based, is gangbanging. The "hippie" is enticed to the commune
mainly by the prospect of all the 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 of 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 "hippie" will, in panic, grab the first simpleton who digs
him and whisk her off to the suburbs as fast as he can. The male cannot
progress socially, but merely swings back and forth from isolation to
gangbanging.
  *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 in 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 other drag queens; like the functionalist, he has an
identity--he is a 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 feminine 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 or wrong, no
conscience, which can only stem from an ability to empathize with
others...having no faith in his non-existent self, being necessarily
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 on 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 a male.
  Most 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 male 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, pose 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.
  *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 male 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; he 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 a 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 early childhood in niceness, politeness and "dignity",
in pandering to the male need to disguise his animalism, she obligingly
reduces her "conversation" to small talk, a bland insipid avoidance of
any topic beyond the utterly trivial--or, if "educated", to
"intellectual" discussion, that is, impersonal discoursing on irrelevant
abstractions--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, 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 men 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, love can exist only between two secure,
free-wheeling, independent, groovy female females, since friendship is
based on respect, not contempt.
  Even among 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 above the amorphous mass. Love
can't flourish in a society based on 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" is
translated into adult language as "Critic knows best", "Writer knows
best", "Ph.D 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 appreciate the greatness, the proof of
their superior sensitivity being that they appreciate the slop that they
appreciate.
  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 there 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--allows the
"artist" to be set up 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, kookie, 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 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 anyone's 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 sucking 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 under 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, can 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 the
fear 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 in "society", the male must resort to:
  1. Censorship. Responding reflexively to isolated words and
phrases rather than cerebrally 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Exposes. The male's chief delight in life--insofar as the
dense, 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 edge lest his
animalism, his maleness be discovered, always needing to cover up, he
must lie constantly; being empty, he has no 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.
  *Hate 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 against those who abuse or insult you--but
irrational, indiscriminate hate...hatred, at bottom, of his own
worthless self.
  Violence 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 on the problem. This, however, will not occur within the male
establishment, because:
  1. 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.
  2. The discouragement of many potential scientists from scientific
careers by the rigidity, boringness, expensiveness, time-consumingness
and unfair exclusivity of our "higher" educational system.
  3. Propaganda disseminated by insecure male professionals, who
jealously guard their positions, so that only a highly select few can
comprehend abstract scientific concepts.
  4. Widespread lack of self-confidence brought about by the father
system that discourages many talented girls from becoming scientists.
  5. 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.
  6. The money system's 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.
  7. The male likes death--it excites him sexually and, already dead
inside, he wants to die.
  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 achieve only 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 has the right
to live 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 *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 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 men, by means of operations on the brain and
nervous system, being able 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 women 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 it soon will be--it goes without saying that we should
produce only whole, complete beings, not physical defects or
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 continue to wallow in the sewer that is, at least, familiar, 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 a worm.
  But SCUM is too impatient to hope and 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 and 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 ball 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 so doing 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 restaurants that play Musak;
"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 jockeys; 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 loiter idly on the street and mar the landscape with their
presence; double dealers; flim-flam artists; litterbugs; plagiarizers;
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", double
dealers, etc. along with the men, but that would be impractical, as
there would be no one left; all women have a fink streak in them, to a
great 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 not, 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-participation, 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 lies 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 an 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 itself to getting 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 of the 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 any other form of indiscriminate destruction. SCUM will coolly,
furtively, stalk its prey and quietly move in for the kill. Destruction
will never be such as to block off routes needed for the transportation
of food and 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 its construction will only take a few weeks
with millions of people working at 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
and with it the elimination of males who wish to legislate "morality"
will mean that 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 our educational
goal is to educate and not to 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 uselessness 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*
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
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 worshipping before the Golden Calf,
the dog leading the master on the leash, when in fact the male, short of
being a drag queen, is least miserable when abjectly prostrate before
the female, a complete slave. 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 barreling 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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  *It will be electronically possible for him to tune in to 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.