Vitalstats, you obviously haven't read the posts in this thread.
Basileatsfouleggs posted the following about SCUM:
"LillyJ, you are absolutely right to say that the language used in SCUM is disgusting.
The reason Solanas used it, was because she was making the point that all that language had been used about women at one point or another in history.
She was taking texts which said stuff like that about women, which had gone unnoticed and unremarked, or been seriously discussed as a proposition (theologians spent centuries discussing whether women could be regarded as fully huuman) and reversing it and applying it to men. Which of course, resulted in the howls of outrage and horror that had been so conspicuously missing when men said this sort of stuff about women.
Because it's OK to say stuff like that about women, but it isn't about men.
Satire is always tricky because you will always get people who don't "get" it Lots of people still think Alf Garnett was meant to be admired and identified with. In the case of the SCUM manifesto, it was kind of inevitable that the men who control the media, deliberately ensured that most people didn't get it, because from the start they pretended it it was a ranting hate tract. Misogynists have a vested interest in pretending that women hate men as much as they hate us. Thye can't point to vast numbers of men being legally, economically, socially and sexually systematically abused by women, so what they do is take obscure satirical tracts from the 1970's written by a woman who later developed mental health problems and pretends that proves we hate then as much as they hate us so therefore it's OK to continue to treat us and talk about us as less than human.
There's a facebook page put up today called Hope-you-have-pet-insurance-because-Im-about-to-destroy-your-pussy. It's for men to click into and have a good laugh about how funny it is to rape women. Nearly half a century after Valerie Solana's satire was published, we still live in a society where men aren't even vagulely ashamed to click on "like" and leave smileys so that they can bond with other men over their hatred of women. This sort of page appears with monotonous regularity on Facebook, but no such hate-speak pages appear about men for us to have a good giggle over what fun it is to hurt and abuse men. Because the depth of hatred for men, simply isn't there. When misogynists think it is, they are simply projecting their own hatred of us."