SCUM MANIFESTO                -by Valerie Solanas

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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. 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, themale 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, friedship, 

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 ofmental 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,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 

piiece, but is instaed 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, going a good plumbing job. To call a man an animal is 

to flater 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 

nontheless, 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 of 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 

iis ("prove he's a man"). His main means of attempting to prove it 

is screwing (Big Man with a Big Dickk tearing of 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 tto live 

through and fuse with the female, and by claiming as his own all 

female characteristics - emotional strength and independence, 

forcefulness, dynamism, decisiveness, collness 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 

te 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 opinioon. He uses terms like 

"copulate", "sexual congress", "have relatins 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 the 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 delusiion 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 opportnity 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, eve 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 fell 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 trilliion 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 a 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 the 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 father hood, resulting from the increased and 

widespread affluence that fatherhood needs in order to thrive, that 

has caused the genereal increase of mindlessness and the decline of 

women in the United States since the 1920s. Thhe close association 

of affluence with father hood has led, for the most part, to only 

the wron 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 tough - 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 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 humaity - 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 at 

home and grovel in animalism, but for Daddy's; the tit's for Daddy 

to hang onto; the labour 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 themselves against 

their passivity and 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 tohmself, 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 funciton 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 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, 

ven 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 rescmbling life, the

male seeks lo 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 indindualist", 

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 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- 

perating 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 govemment. 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 ralional 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 pointlcss 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 empathise with others and being 

totally sexual, "wrong" is sexual "licence" 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 behaviour 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 men 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. And 

the various 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 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; 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, respeclful of and in awe of the 

male, allows him to impose his hideously dull chattcr 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" discusssion, 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 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 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 judgement, 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 @he 

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 distracls 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 turd. This allows the "artist" 

to be set up as one possessing superior feelings, perceptions, 

insights and judgments, thereby undermining the failh 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 thc acid heads 

contact their erotic cells.



On the other hand, those females least embeddcd 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 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 

Expose's*: 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 is exposure on a personal level, in order to prevenl the 

general exposure of the male sex as a whole and to maintain his 

unnatural dominant position in "society", the male must resort to:



    l. Censorship. Responding reflexly 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

atter 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 lhe role that 

fatherhood plays in causing mental illncss.



    3. Expose's. 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 

thers 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 atlitude 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 bcing capable of ever 

achieving satisfaction or pleasure of any kind; eaten up wilh 

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.



Gratuitous violence, besides "proving" he is 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 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 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 sclcct 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 excitees him sexually and, already 

dead inside, he wants to die.



    8. 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 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 othcr reason than 

that he will have to-the male, for practical purposes, won't cxist.



Accelerating this trend is the fact that more and more males are 

acquiring enlightened self-interest; thcy're reali@ing 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; le'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 

passivily 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 femalcs 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 production 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 laleness. 

Just as the deliberate production of blind people would be highly 

immoral, so would be the deliberale 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 appens when we're 

dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to 

succeed us?



Eventually the natural course of evenls, 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 wan@s to grab some thrilling

living for itself. And, if a large majorily 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 @he 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 ta 

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 rcduced their minds, 

thoughts and sights to the male level, who, lacking scnse, 

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 fcmales 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 thc 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 air-waves - 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. 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 nccessary 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 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 advcrtising 

industry; psychiatrists and clinical psychologists; dishonest 

writcrs, 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 service men 

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 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 lalter, makes a vinue 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 lo openly violaling 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 construclion 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 evcntually 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.



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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. 

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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 pandercd 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 his dogginess is recognised - 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 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.