p. 19 “It would appear that Miss Solanas.” Quoted in ibid., 34.
p. 20 “SCUM is the work of the ultimate loser.” Vivian Gornick, introduction, in SCUM Manifesto, Valerie Solanas (New York: Olympia Press, 1970), xv.
p. 20 “For Valerie, everything was her theories.” Quoted in Fahs, Valerie Solanas, 153.
p. 22 “see an analyst.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 14.
p. 22 “castration complex in women.” Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud, 24 vols, ed. and trans. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1953–74), 7:195n2.
p. 23 “the little girl is a little man.” Freud, Standard Edition, 22:118.
p. 24 “envy and jealousy.” Ibid., 22:125.
p. 24 “his behavior is approved and hers isn’t.” Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (New York: Quill, 1970), 57.
p. 24 “still in possession of a penis.” Freud, Standard Edition, 18:273.
p. 25 “pussy envy.” Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, 38.
p. 26 “Hell’o, Gorgeous” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 1.
p. 26 “Hell’o. Beautiful” … “twat by Dior?” Ibid., 1.
p. 26 “original sexual inferiority.” Freud, Standard Edition, 22:132.
p. 31 “She is” … “I’ve ever run across.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 7.
p. 31 “transsexuals rape women’s bodies.” Janice G. Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male, rev. ed. (1979; New York: Teachers College Press, 1994), 104.
p. 31 “one sex-role stereotype for another.” Ibid., xvii.
p. 31 “the ultimate” … “here possess women.” Ibid., 30.
p. 33 “a perfect victim of male suppression.” Quoted in Fahs, Valerie Solanas, 72.
p. 33 “making fun of women for gay men’s entertainment.” Ibid., 244.
p. 33 “The male dares” … “stilted mannerisms.” Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, 50–51.
p. 33 “She’s so vile” … “afternoon mixer.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 8.
p. 34 “The male must see” … “to the role.” Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, 51.
p. 35 “You’re not too bad-looking” … “look like a woman.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 12.
p. 36 “Degrading Mindless-Boob-Girlie Symbol.” Robin Morgan, “No More Miss America! Ten Points of Protest,” in Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement, ed. Robin Morgan (New York: Vintage, 1970), 522.
pp. 36–7 “Each element” … “‘like it right away.’” Catharine A. MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989), 110.
p. 37 “it is sexuality” … “other way around.” Ibid., 111.
p. 37 “eroticization of dominance and submission.” Ibid., 113.
p. 37 “Man fucks woman; subject verb object.” Ibid., 124.
p. 39 “lapping up shit.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 10.
p. 39 “It so aptly expresses me.” Ibid.,10.
p. 39 “Not to be nosey” … “It’s for dinner.” Ibid., 9.
p. 39 “leading exponent” … “labor pains feel good.” Ibid., 14–15.
pp. 39–40 “I’m completely attuned” … “hours on end.” Ibid., 13.
p. 40 “flexible enough” … “with equal facility.” Ibid., 14.
p. 40 “lost without you.” Ibid., 13.
p. 40 “pure feeling” … “thought, attitude or idea.” Ibid., 11.
p. 40 “Basically [they] told” … “Twitter after that.” Quoted in Manisha Krishnan, “We Talked to the Woman Who Is Butt Chugging ‘Infinite Jest,’” Vice, June 15, 2017, vice.com.
p. 41 “I’m not gay” … “book, though.” “#eatinfinitejest: the first year,” YouTube video, June 13, 2017,
p. 41 “When I’m doing it” … “and stay alive.” Quoted in Krishnan, “Butt Chugging ‘Infinite Jest.’”
p. 42 “I blended together” … “it was empty.” Quoted in ibid.
pp. 42–3 “Absorbing ‘culture’” … “they’ll ever have.” Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, 59.
p. 43 “It’s a silly thing.” Quoted in Krishnan, “Butt Chugging ‘Infinite Jest.’”
p. 44 “You don’t know” … “desexed monstrosity.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 18.
p. 45 “social and legal personhood.” C. Riley Snorton, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), 17–53.
pp. 45–6 “As everyone has female” … “earlier configuration.” “History and Procedure,” MarciBowers.com, accessed February 16, 2019,
pp. 46–7 “If the Adam and Eve story.” John Money, The Adam Principle: Genes, Genitals, Hormones, and Gender: Selected Readings in Sexology (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1993), 56–57.
p. 47 “like a perfect female.” Ibid, 57.
p. 47 “macho-minded of males!” Ibid., 57.
p. 48 “I face reality.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 8.
p. 49 “Feminism is a political error.” Valentine de Saint-Point, “Manifesto of the Futurist Woman (Response to F. T. Marinetti),” trans. Lawrence Rainey, in Futurism: An Anthology, eds Lawrence Rainey, Christine Poggi, and Laura Wittman (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), 111.
p. 49 “Every woman must” … “she is a female.” Ibid., 110, translation modified.
p. 52 “Why’re girls called” … “the peckers.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 2.
p. 52 “Screwing is” … “to be female.” Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, 38.
p. 53 “allegory for gender transition.” Chelsea L. Shephard, “Call Trans Opt: Transgender Themes in The Matrix,” The Ontological Geek (blog), October 9, 2012,
p. 53 “splinter in your mind.” The Matrix, dir. Lana and Lily Wachowski (USA: Warner Bros., 1999).
p. 55 “Ignorance is bliss” … “You understand?” Ibid.
p. 55 “brain and nervous system.” Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, 68.
p. 55 “vicarious livers” … “handicapped fellow beings.” Ibid., 79.
p. 56 “Come and get it.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 19.
p. 56 “complete guide” … “handling logistics.” “HOW TO GET LAID LIKE A WARLORD: 37 Rules of Approaching Model-Tier Girls,” Reddit post, November 29, 2016,
p. 57 “hypergamy.” “Red Pill Jargon and Terminology: A resource for the new and a discussion for the old,” Reddit post, September 1, 2014,
p. 57 “Women want to submit to you.” “LIKE A WARLORD.”
p. 58 “Women are wired” … “she’ll sleep with you.” Ibid.
p. 58 “swim through a river of snot.” Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, 37.
p. 58 “public relations.” Ibid., 38.
p. 59 “He hates his passivity.” Ibid., 37.
p. 59 “Good doggie.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 19.
p. 59 “gang-rape your girl.” “LIKE A WARLORD.”
p. 60 “Women will test you brutally” … “WAR OF ATTRITION.” Ibid.
p. 61 “You’re too old” … “off my porch.” Fight Club, dir. David Fincher (USA: 20th Century Fox, 1999).
p. 61 “how few options” … “extreme always goes away.” Quoted in Ben Beaumont-Thomas, “Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk on His Book Becoming a Bible for the Incel Movement,” Guardian, July 20, 2018, theguardian.com.
p. 62 “I star in movies” … “top directors.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 3.
p. 63 “You’ve fooled your brain.” Gavin McInnes, “#NoWanks: How quitting porn and masturbation changed my life,” The Rebel, August 14, 2015, therebel.media.
p. 65 “Is there ‘feminist’ sex? Should there be?” Amber Hollibaugh, “Desire for the Future: Radical Hope in Passion and Pleasure,” in Pleasur
e and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality, ed. Carole S. Vance (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984), 402.
p. 65 “Sex is the refuge” … “waste of time.” Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, 60.
p. 65 “SCUM gets around” … “get to anti-sex.” Ibid., 61–62.
p. 65 “Typical male pornography” … “you want the money.” Quoted in Fahs, Valerie Solanas, 189.
p. 66 “the romantic in me.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 4.
p. 66 “more zestful men’s magazines.” Ibid., 5.
p. 66 “Why’d you approach me?” … “ball of fire.” Ibid., 3.
p. 68 “fucking losers watch porn” … “lose myself.” Don Jon, dir. Joseph Gordon-Levitt (USA: Relativity Media, 2013).
p. 69 “more sex with that thing.” Ibid.
p. 69 “I do lose myself” … “lost together.” Ibid.
p. 70 “Downright perverse.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 26.
p. 71 “About 3 years ago” … “95 percent sure.” “Did sissy porn make me trans or was I trans all a long? (NSFW)” (sic), Reddit post, November 18, 2014,
p. 72 “Real MTFs don’t do that.” “Am I a Sissy or MTF? Confused! (Possibly NSFW),” Reddit post, September 2, 2015,
p. 72 “psychiatrists and clinical psychologists.” Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, 74.
p. 72 “All gender dysphoric males” … “love of oneself as a woman.” Ray Blanchard, “The Classification and Labeling of Nonhomosexual Gender Dysphorias,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 18, no. 4 (1989): 315–34, 322–23.
p. 72–3 “the physical properties of clothing.” Ray Blanchard, “Early History of the Concept of Autogynephilia,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 34, no. 4 (August 2005): 439–46, 441–44.
p. 73 “The term transgender” … “sexual fetishism.” Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism (London: Routledge, 2014), 14–15.
p. 73 “The use of the term ‘sissy’” … “degrading and demeaning one.” Ibid., 95.
p. 75 “Fuck is in the air.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 27.
p. 77 “suicidal ecstasy of being a woman.” Leo Bersani, Is the Rectum a Grave? And Other Essays (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 22.
p. 77 “To call a man” … “Surely not pleasure.” Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, 37.
p. 77 “absent female phallus.” Freud, Standard Edition, 21:155.
p. 77 “a token of triumph.” Ibid., 21:154.
p. 80 “Let the guys ram each other.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 26.
p. 80 “two cats, one white and one spade.” Ibid., 1
p. 80 “Beat it, Little Boy” … “You’re perceptive.” Ibid., 2.
p. 81 “A white man doesn’t stand a chance.” Ibid., 3.
p. 82 “infinite virility.” Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Richard Philcox, rev. ed. (New York: Grove Press, 2008), 123.
p. 84 “hazing rituals.” Jane Ward, Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men (New York: New York University Press, 2015), 153–90.
p. 85 “Let your soul sway.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 15.
p. 86 “I decided to pay attention to brushing my teeth.” Allan Kaprow, Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life, ed. Jeff Kelley (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 219–20.
p. 90 “probably from emphysema.” Fahs, Valerie Solanas, 329.
p. 91 “I am terrible, aren’t I?” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 26.
pp. 91–2 “What effect has SCUM had” … “Now there are two.” Quoted in Fahs, Valerie Solanas, 101.
p. 92 “That’s not my name.” Solanas, Up Your Ass, 24.
p. 92 “I’ve tried relating to the emptiness.” Ibid., 26.
p. 92–3 “I bet you’d be a crazy lover” … “too good a talker.” Ibid., 27.
p. 93 “a beautiful, low-down, funky doll.” Ibid., 29.
p. 93 “She came right over” … “that was that.” Quoted in Fahs, Valerie Solanas, 105.
pp. 93–4 “I’m a sucker for squishy ass” … “the same thing.” “I A Man Part 7,” YouTube video, February 14, 2009,
p. 94 “the bullet damaged his stomach.” Fahs, Valerie Solanas, 141.
p. 94 “I kept thinking.” Quoted in ibid., 144–45.
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