S.C.U.M Manifesto, or better known as the Society for Cutting Up Men is a short novel published in 1967 by Valerie Solanas. The novel is extremely feminist, describing how men are the worst thing to happen in the world ever and how they should all be wiped off the face of the earth. The author, Valerie Solanas, was a radical feminist and wrote this text as something serious to her, even though it has been categorized as satire. This novel was a very entertaining read for me, there were many times throughout this novel where I was laughing because of how absurd the content in here is. A lot of the views and opinions that Solanas writes about were just so insane for me and it kind of felt like she was overexaggerating a little bit. The idea of S.C.U.M was that it was a sort of organization for women to rise up and destroy the patriarchy of society. There was a lot of talk about crippling the economy and stopping any man who tries to get in their way. The topic of a large group of women rising up and attempting to break down the modern world by means of screwing with the economy sounds like something out of a futuristic dystopian book or movie. Finding out that Solanas has had a very negative view on men for her whole life, since she was sexually abused by her father at a young age kind of makes sense for her viewpoints on men, however to broadly say that every single man in the world is responsible for her trauma and upbringing is very untrue and is not a great outlook to have. Many of the statements that she makes against men in the Manifesto are from her lack of a male figure to look up to and therefore she holds a serious grudge against every single individual in the male race for reasons that are unfair. Her belief that men have caused much more suffering than good is kind of accurate, however there are many achievements that men have made that have made life much easier for everyone, including Solanas. One of these achievements is the printing press, without it Solanas wouldn’t have been able to sell this hilarious manifesto to the world for everyone to see. Valerie Solanas was clearly a very troubled and broken person who decided to write about her extreme hatred and disgust towards the male population and this manifesto was very interesting to experience.