quote taken from the S.C.U.M. (society for cutting up men) -manifesto, written by extremist-feminist Valerie Solanas in 1967 and published in 1968.solanas worked as a prostitute to pay for her study and developed a rage against men. she asked andy warhol to help her publishing her manifesto, but he refused. in 1968 an enraged solanos shot and wounded the famous pop-artist. she was locked up in a psychiatric institution.in her manifesto, solanas claimed that all evil on this planet is caused by men and therefore propagated a society of which men are excluded. she based her theory on sociological en psycho-analytical theories.in 1996 a film based on solanas' life came out, called i shot andy warhol.'of walking abortion' is taken from the first part of her manifesto:"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 feasible 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, 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. [...]"