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February 04, 2007
Valerie Solanas
Anybody remember Valerie Solanas? Founder of SCUM. The Society for Cutting Up Men. Writer of the SCUM Manifesto. Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.Well, it gets better or worse depending on your point of view. So the relevance of this to current events? It looks like the John Edwards campaign has hired what appears to be a Valerie Solanas clone, Amanda Marcotte. Let us look into some of her writing. KC Johnson of Durham in Wonderland has excerpted from some of her posts. This is typical: This is about race and class and gender in every way, and there's basically no way this woman was going to see justice. In her part of the country, both women and black people are seen as subhuman objects to be used and abused by white men.So it is not about evidence. It is about which class you belong to. Well I haved blogged about this particular post myself. Now Ms Marcotte has disappeared it down the memory hole. Which probably makes her perfect for the Edwards Campaign. Which is all about the class struggle he is waging from his 24,000 sq. ft. mansion with heated swimming pool and when he gets tired and needs a vacation he has an nice vacation home on an island. Kind of like a castle with a moat. Keeps the lower classes out. They want to class struggle? It will have to be from some where else. So all this has caused a lot of heat. The cover up, such as it is, even more. Eric of Classical Values is covering Ms Marcotte from a different angle. Her recent blogging duel with James Lileks. Lie Stoppers is looking at the Edwards campaign aspect. And, the missing posts. There is also lots in the comments at all the above places. If you don't mind sifting. I think Marcotte is sunk and so is Edwards. A nice overview courtesy of Instapundit. The opinions of Amanda Marcotte. Note: Lie Stoppers link fixed. Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 02.04.07 at 12:19 AM |
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As a guy, it's interesting to me that Ms. Solanas criticizes men for being not cerebral enough. This has been the opposite of my experience, especially when I argue with women. Their "positions" are almost always based on feeling rather than thinking, and I am criticized for being "too" cerebral and not emotional enough. Maybe my experience is atpical, but I believe that in the decades since THE SCUM MANIFESTO was published, organized feminism--veering ever and ever leftward, and often marrying traditional socialism and "liberal" victim politics with New Agey mysticism (i.e., the Cult of the Goddess)--glories in its emotional approach to things and criticizes men for their reliance on reasoning and abstract principles.