The SCUM Manifesto is oddly not at all a rejection of traditional misogynistic sexism, simply adapting it and taking female ownership of the concept of the patriarchy. She even allows that some of its claims about women are true, but only about the women who have been brainwashed and masculinized by society. All the traditional negative traits traditionally assigned to women she assigns to men, and claims their domination of society is based on their desire to be women. Her arguments are interspersed with several sweeping philosophical statements about life, such as her claims that “the only wrong is to hurt others, and that the meaning of life is love” and “the males like death — it excites him sexually and, already dead inside, he wants to die.” She uses these claims to support her arguments, but does elaborate on or attempt to prove them at all.She also makes outrageous claims about scientific and technological progress in a world in the hands of women. Her unrealistic claims include her opinions that “the problems of aging and death could be solved within a few years, if an all-out, massive scientific assault were made upon the problem” and “A completely automated society can be accomplished very simply and quickly once there is a public demand for it…it’s construction will take only a few weeks with millions of people working on it.” Her support for these assertions hinges on her claims that male scientists sabotage progress with their subconscious fear of discovering the truth of their irremediably flawed and inferior natures, but that is where her reasoning ends. Her lackluster support for these claims and the other ones made earlier in the text sabotage any chance the SCUM Manifesto had of appearing to be any sort of rationally thought out and psychologically, socially, philosophically, or scientifically based argument with relevance to broader mainstream society. Admittedly from her descriptions of society in general, Solanas is unlikely to be trying to win over the men in power or even the vast majority of women whom she views with derision as masculinized and impotently, but really only to her fellow SCUM, as she calls them. These women are already receptive to her message and ready to rise up with her. She intends this comparatively small part of the population to be able to completely reform society, a delusion likely based on her vast overestimation of their importance to society at large.