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emmabirli's review against another edition
3.0
the fact that this reads so naturally as if its just her ranting even though it was written over many years just shows how talented she is. at times hilarious in its parody of freud (among other things) at times really validating. lots of good ideas but the homophobia and the fact thats shes a terf were off putting. cool that she shot andy warhol
ilovegravy's review against another edition
4.0
tldr: G R O O V Y
After having reflected on this book for a whole few hours, I decided to give it 4 stars instead of 3. Because although I simply refuse to speak about the whole patriarchy yada-yada, isn’t it pretty incredible that this book is still alive and well? What if the genders were reversed..? And yeah there’s a lot of pretty wild misogynistic literature out there, but if you know of any “failed abortion” type of ramblings directed towards women (not the incelly stuff from the internet, but an actual, okayish-written book/article) please let me know.
After having reflected on this book for a whole few hours, I decided to give it 4 stars instead of 3. Because although I simply refuse to speak about the whole patriarchy yada-yada, isn’t it pretty incredible that this book is still alive and well? What if the genders were reversed..? And yeah there’s a lot of pretty wild misogynistic literature out there, but if you know of any “failed abortion” type of ramblings directed towards women (not the incelly stuff from the internet, but an actual, okayish-written book/article) please let me know.
tabithare's review against another edition
i literally don’t even know what to say about this
eceaydin94's review against another edition
4.0
''dişi olmamasını telafi etme takıntısı, ilişkilenme ve merhamet duyma konusundaki acziyle birleşeneril, dünyayı bir bok yığını haline getirmiştir. savaşve fuhuş bunlardan ikisidir. ''
2017 yılına bu kitapla başlamak çok iyi bir fikirdi.
2017 yılına bu kitapla başlamak çok iyi bir fikirdi.
anouckm's review against another edition
4.0
Damn she is mad - I don’t know what to say…
Read it - it’s very short - and see for yourself
Read it - it’s very short - and see for yourself
pastagoblin666's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
reflective
tense
fast-paced
2.75
I had a lot of fun with this. I also hated a lot of it. It's amazing how it manages to be so conflicting in so few pages. I guess what makes me lean toward a lower rating is the homophic/transphobic remarks, which I don't think the author intended as inflammatory or derogatory (Also keeping in mind this was published in the 60s) but are still hard to swallow.
hyunc456's review against another edition
4.0
Valerie Solanas is the perfect example of a woman angered by society and her own views of the world. Perhaps not inherently a lunatic, but she's definitely taken it upon herself to rant on the shortcomings of men. Her language is crude, her descriptions brutal, yet theres something invigoriating to this work.
This isn't just a 50-page rant on man-hate. It's also Solanas's conveyance that there's more to women than the term "women"; in this stagnant society that we're used to, her belief, this utter conviction, is oddly refreshing. Ridiculed, yes, but the peculiar way in which she arranges her logic is interesting, and makes this material more into the depths of the radical feminist's mind, if there ever was a feminist as radical and at the same time significant as Valerie Solanas. She seems to dig deeper into her own interesting logic, yet failing to acknowledge anything else. More than anything, this book felt like sporadic bursts of energetic rants, done for the purpose of releasing rather than conveying.
Her manifesto basically runs on the thread of this idea: "Being an incomplete female, the male spends his life attempting to complete himself, to become female."
I've seen far too many reviews dismiss Solanas for having "failed" to expound on this idea. But, as a woman, it's obvious to me that Solanas is angered by the implications of being a woman, and have hit too close to the far-radical end of things in portraying that the word woman is a characteristic more than a determinant of the sex itself.
"His main means of attempting to prove it is screwing (Big Man with a Big Dick tearing off a Big Piece). Since he’s attempting to prove an error, he must ‘prove’ it again and again. Screwing, then, is a desperate compulsive, attempt to prove he’s not passive, not a woman; but he is passive and does want to be a woman."
"The effect of fathers, in sum, has been to corrode the world with maleness. The male has a negative Midas Touch– everything he touches turns to shit."
"Eventually the natural course of events, of social evolution, will lead to total female control of the world and, subsequently, to the cessation of the production of males and, ultimately, to the cessation of the production of females." And here it is--all her ravings on the course of the human race.
~ 4 stars.
This isn't just a 50-page rant on man-hate. It's also Solanas's conveyance that there's more to women than the term "women"; in this stagnant society that we're used to, her belief, this utter conviction, is oddly refreshing. Ridiculed, yes, but the peculiar way in which she arranges her logic is interesting, and makes this material more into the depths of the radical feminist's mind, if there ever was a feminist as radical and at the same time significant as Valerie Solanas. She seems to dig deeper into her own interesting logic, yet failing to acknowledge anything else. More than anything, this book felt like sporadic bursts of energetic rants, done for the purpose of releasing rather than conveying.
Her manifesto basically runs on the thread of this idea: "Being an incomplete female, the male spends his life attempting to complete himself, to become female."
I've seen far too many reviews dismiss Solanas for having "failed" to expound on this idea. But, as a woman, it's obvious to me that Solanas is angered by the implications of being a woman, and have hit too close to the far-radical end of things in portraying that the word woman is a characteristic more than a determinant of the sex itself.
"His main means of attempting to prove it is screwing (Big Man with a Big Dick tearing off a Big Piece). Since he’s attempting to prove an error, he must ‘prove’ it again and again. Screwing, then, is a desperate compulsive, attempt to prove he’s not passive, not a woman; but he is passive and does want to be a woman."
"The effect of fathers, in sum, has been to corrode the world with maleness. The male has a negative Midas Touch– everything he touches turns to shit."
"Eventually the natural course of events, of social evolution, will lead to total female control of the world and, subsequently, to the cessation of the production of males and, ultimately, to the cessation of the production of females." And here it is--all her ravings on the course of the human race.
~ 4 stars.