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SCUM Manifesto (Society For Cutting Up Men) is a misandrous tract written
in 1968 by Valerie Solanas which advocated a violent anarchic revolution to
create an all-female society.
Solanas was indicted for the attempted murder of Andy Warhol, Mario Amaya,
and Fred Hughes on June 3, 1968 (charges of attempted murder, assault, and
illegal possession of a firearm). That August, she was declared incompetent
to stand trial and was sent to Ward Island Hospital. At her arraignment for
the Warhol shootings, she told the crowd of reporters and police: "Read my
manifesto and it will tell you who I am."[LINK:
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20040614&s=dederer] [1]
Later in life, and after serving a prison sentence for reckless assault
with intent to cause bodily harm, Solanas tried to distance herself from
the manifesto. In a July 25 1977 interview with the
