S.C.U.M
"... the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion... To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples."
"Ultimately, what the male "rebel" is rebelling against is being male."
"The male, having a very limited range of feelings, and consequently, very limited perceptions, insights and judgements, needs the "artist" to guide him, to tell him what life is about. But the male "artist" being totally sexual, unable to relate to anything beyond his own physical sensations, having nothing to express beyond the insight that for the male life is meaningless and absurd, cannot be an artist. How can he who is not capable of life tell us what life is all about? A "male artist" is a contradiction in terms. A degenerate can only produce degenerate art."
Valerie Solanas - SCUM Manifesto 1967 (quotes taken completely out of context)
An embittered, disillusioned and failing artist yearns to become a true disciple of Solanas - wanting to become the "complete female" that she talked so passionately about. In so doing he believes he can finally attain empathy and thus create "true" art, worthy of her name. However, while documenting his journey he ultimately fails by unwittingly sexualising himself...
