Status Updates From SCUM Manifesto

52 Book Club Prompt #12: A genre-defining read. And the genre? Fresh radical feminism.

Right now, I'm not feeling too strongly about it in either direction. The rating is a mystery but I don't think Valeria gets enough credit in RF spaces, despite walking so Andrea could run. Kim Jiyoung: Born 1984 would also be great for this prompt.

Idk why there's no copy without that introduction. Noone is about to tell me what to make of this before I read it myself 😒 If I wanted an introduction I'd read the reviews!

“They label the Human Condition, posit their nothingness problem, which horrifies them, as a philosophical dilemma, thereby giving stature to their animalism, grandiloquently label 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.”

and if i say White Nigh- 💥🔫

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.”

“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.”