taken from: solanas' 1967 s.c.u.

m. (society for cutting up men) manifesto.original text:

[...] 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. [...]

about the quoted person:extreme faminist. On April 9, 1936 in Ventor, New Jersey, Valerie Jean Solanas was born. Her father sexually molested her. At the age of 15 in 1951, Valerie ended up on her own. She was a good student at the University of Maryland at College Park, supporting herself by working in the psycology department's animal laboratory. After college, Solanas panhandled and worked as a prostitute to support herself. She traveled around the country and ended up in Greenwich Village in 1966. There she wrote Up Your Ass, a play about a man-hating hustler and a panhandler. Early in 1967 Solanas approached Andy Warhol at his studio, the Factory, about producing Up Your Ass, as a play and gave him her copy of the script. he was not impressed.

Also in 1967 Solanas wrote and self published the Scum Manifesto. SCUM stand for society of cutting up men. in her manifesto she stated that all men are cripples and that all bad things in the world are caused by men. she gave scientific and psycho-analytic arguments for her theory. Later, in May 1967, after Warhol had returned from a trip to France and England, Solanas demanded her script back; Warhol informed her he had lost it. later, she shot him, but did not kill him. On June 13, 1968 Valerie Solanas appeared in front of State Surpreme Court Justice Thomas Dickens; she was then represented by radical feminist lawyer Florynce Kennedy who called Solanas "one of the most important spokeswomen of the feminist movement." August 1968, Olympia Press published the SCUM Manifesto with essays by Maurice Girodias and Paul Krassner.

April 26, 1988, after serving years in prisons and mental hospitals, Valerie Solanas died of emphysema and pneumonia.in 1996 a film directed by mary harron about solanas came out, called i shot andy warhol, starring lili taylor as solanas.