The SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas is said to be a satire or parody piece of radical feminist literature. However, Solanas refused to deny her beliefs in anything she wrote about and even referred to herself as a social propagandist. The SCUM manifesto starts off by labeling all men as biological accidents, stating that the male gene is just an incomplete female gene. This sets the basis for the rest of the text as Solanas repeatedly refers to maleness as being a deficiency disease. This “manifesto” is split up into multiple sections of categories that men have supposedly been responsible for. These include things like war, disease, and work. There were many other topics brought up but these three are the most prominent as they are brought up many times again throughout the text. War is said to be a result of men needing to prove their worth and also them being too mentally incompetent to realize that things can be solved without trying to one up one another. Disease is a result of men working in the fields of medicine and doctor positions being stuck up and basically refusing to dig too much into that field for the fear of finding out that men are just incompetent and weak women. The last category, work. is by far the most prominent, as this text states that the only drive men have going for them deals with work and money. If the work-money system was dissolved for good, women will be liberated. Solanas takes this another step further by talking about how much better our society would be if we got rid of men all together. She blames them for all of women’s wrongdoings and includes religion into this equation by claiming men created heaven because of the lack of happiness possible for mankind on earth. Throughout this story, the use of the words “men” and “males” devolve into them being labeled as scum and then eventually not addressing them and just saying that the SCUM organization of women will take care of the problems in the world. One of the last lines in this manifesto states that “the female, whether she likes it or not, will eventually take complete charge”.