They are expected to do so much, and a lot of women buckled under the preassure. While women have more room to create and strive, they are also held down by their responsibilities as wife and mother. She believes that men oppress because they work. But Solaris plays into the idea that women are fuffilled and lucky to be kept out of the work place. Women being sexual, babying husbands and believing to be nurturers and nothing else. There were lots of similarities in what Valerie was saying and what Friedan says or even what I read in Homeward Bound this past semester.
The scariest of these is that men are biologically inferior to women. That men project onto women, that women are creative and men stiffled by the rat race life, but I also think that there are a lot of wrong ideas. Baisically I think there are some great ideas in this manifesto. I mean, I've read the manifest twice now and both times I thought she had issues. The focus of this edition is not on the nostalgic appeal of the work, but on Avital Ronell's incisive introduction, "Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas." Here is a reconsideration of Solanas's infamous text in light of her social milieu, Derrida's "The Ends of Man" (written in the same year), Judith Butler's Excitable Speech, Nietzsche's Ubermensch and notorious feminist icons from Medusa, Medea and Antigone, to Lizzie Borden, Lorenna Bobbit and Aileen Wournos, illuminating the evocative exuberance of Solanas's dark tract.First I have to say.
In fact, the work has indisputable prescience, not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its timepredicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against under-representation in the artsbut also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman. But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968.
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