The Scum Manifesto Made Me Angry

This was actually frustrating to read. I was actually pained to know that people can think in this way. I am convinced that this woman was determined to shatter my faith in humanity. The desire to reread any or all of The Lord of the Rings books became stronger the more I immersed myself in this woman’s mind. Along with the conclusion that men simply cannot do anything good, which caused me physical pain, she proceeded to say that men are the reason we die. The reason they want it to continue to exist is that they are so depressed by not being women that they want to die. Death is an illusion created by the patriarchy. Also, and this angered me the most for some reason, we don’t need money. Money is part of business and that is a construct of the male. People don’t need to work more than a few hours each week and they can live a life of luxury. My business major brain actually felt pain when I read this passage. This simply must be satire. In order to maintain my faith in humanity, I need to convince myself that it is satire because otherwise this woman actually stated that “SCUM will destroy all useless and harmful objects — cars, store windows, ‘Great Art’, etc,” and she said it all unironically. That’s not even the worst one. I just opened the document and it was the first thing I saw on the page. There are sixteen pages of this. Along with eliminating money, she wants to eliminate men and numerous jobs that she deems unnecessary or somehow oppressive. She elaborates that we don’t need men for reproduction and we should just grow people in tubes or something and all be tube clones. She also hates the LGBTQ community with the heat of a falling star. Any attempt for males to love other males is an attempt to be more like a woman, which is impossible because their nature is too filthy. Any attempt for a man to actually become a woman is ridiculous because he is still a man at his core. She also states that without men there would be no war because apparently women are not capable of violence or political thought. There is much more to the text, but to quote Legolas in The Fellowship of the Ring, “I have not the heart to tell you. For me the grief is still too near.”