Valerie Solanas, Infamous

Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol, but she was also the author of The SCUM manifesto, a radical feminist doctrine, or was it a brilliant satire?
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[@cecemax2604]

Another great video. Thank you for a clear explanation regarding this dark story. 💚

[@RetroRoomYT]

Thanks Cece! 🙏❤️

[@josephsmall4270]

That's kind of wild that they found her missing play after all those years.

[@marigold7250]

In every photo you can see the hate in her eyes. Im surprised she managed to make friends and worm her way in with people, but maybe they thought she was just unique. 😃

[@RetroRoomYT]

I’m surprised too, it’s seems like people were ignoring the red flags 🚩 with her

[@AmyPieterse]

she looks mentally ill. yikes.

[@debrafullerton2360]

All Artists are a bit edgy, lots of drugs involved, he just liked her and trusted her!!! FOOL ...

[@courtneyjohnson3761]

Good call this is a great 1 to go over! This incident was a major major Is part of history in general and it was turning point in the counter culture shifting!

[@RetroRoomYT]

Thanks Courtney, It was very interesting to research, and she was a very complex personality, and your right about the cultural shift that followed

[@psychospacecadet]

Thanks for this, and I was aware but hadn't heard that much about the woman herself. I think the whole situation is the very definition of irony, and thanks for taking away the sensationalism, but is there anything more about her meeting Sedgwick? Glad you are back and tell us more stories!!!!

[@RetroRoomYT]

Thanks psychospacecadet! I am looking for details on the meeting between her and Sedgwick.

[@Be12397]

I’d LOVE to know what Solanes and Edie spoke about when they ran into eachother!

[@RetroRoomYT]

You and me both!

[@flintlockbeithir4823]

Twitter be like "she's missunderstood"

[@maddog8356]

You can see the evil in this woman’s eyes, and the anger written all over her face. I don’t know what tragedies she suffered as a child or young girl, but something clearly scarred her to the point of no return.

[@RetroRoomYT]

Yeah, she clearly had some very serious anger issues

[@tula1433]

I feel like we tend to make so many excuses for women who are evil lunatics. But no one would ever say “poor Ted Bundy had a rough childhood!” If a woman kills her kids or husband we say “oh that poor girl she finally had enough and snapped” but we never do that for males. Valerie was a trash human of them typical radical butch lesbian feminist type.

[@emil.jansson]

She was abused by her father and grandfather so her hatred of men is understandable.

[@hineraable]

Her father was sexually abusive, and her grandad beat her up constantly. She had animosity towards Andy 'couse he lost a script that she wrote (tho i think that she believe he had stolen it) and didn't wanted to pay her back for it. She also didn't like the way that he portray women on his work. They also had a disagreement or something during the production of a movie they work together with. Plus she had schizophrenia. So, personally, i don't think she was completely evil, maybe with proper treatment this wouldn't have happened.

[@leslietrang9115]

That’s bravery.

[@kabardinka1]

Thanks for the video, but it's Paul Morrissey, not Jack Morrissey.

[@quester09]

Up Your Ass was produced in San Francisco in the late 90s at the George Coates Performance Works. It contained moments of brilliance, but was pretty chaotic.

[@BrianLamar-es3my]

Edie and Valerie probably mess around once with each other

[@trisht3068]

Thanks for this informative video! I read Valerie's manifesto and it was hateful and parts of it were unintentionally funny. A very troubled woman who caused other people so much pain.

[@RetroRoomYT]

Thank you 🙏 Trish T I’m glad 😃 you found it informative

[@memzpf]

SHES MY QUEEN I LOVE VALERIE SOLANAS

[@DendaniAmina-ju9rx]

Same

[@dbmur001]

Paul Morrissey, not Jack.

[@user-gt5jh8eo1w]

What if she was not a feminist what if she was a men right advocate

[@jessiekaylee6496]

American horror story had an interesting spin on this story

[@RetroRoomYT]

Yes 👍 and she was such an interesting personality

[@GESSO217]

Tom Baker? As in "Doctor Who" Tom Baker?

[@Mrajtheartist]

✨⭐✨💞💖💞💖💞💖💞💖💞✨⭐✨

[@RetroRoomYT]

😊

[@roddyboethius1722]

Andy lied to her. He didn't lose the play

[@Mytube777]

Nice! I wonder what became of her kid. I know she had one…

[@RetroRoomYT]

I saw something about her son being a model for an underwater photographer.

[@ge.0]

I read her book. Bat Shit Crazy

[@RetroRoomYT]

Yeah, she seemed crazy to me too

[@roddyboethius1722]

How so?

[@ge.0]

@@roddyboethius1722 The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples. Quote from her book

[@strayy2023]

Damn if a man made a scuw i wonder if the world whould act differently to how they handled her

[@AntronMaxum7-xl6xs]

OH MY GOD CHRIST, what drama, what action, What real life , Bravo lady bravo, She set Andy's ass on fire 🔥 and disrupted the whole scene demanding her 🥧 piece of the pie 🌟 What guts , What balls, oops tits , The odacity the nerve , Andy ghosted alot of people And his entourage where awful to outsiders , I'm surprised she didn't have a machine gun , The court case was classic , One flew over the cuckoo's nest, She beat the system ,

[@leslietrang9115]

A real American hero 🙏🏽

[@alfiekelly932]

Who?

[@s0medebr1s]

​@@alfiekelly932 Valerie of course. Haven't you read SCUM?

[@oscarluque4098]

The fact that many women see her as an icon and a hero is incredibly fucked up.

[@RmonK2000]

Men see other shitty ass men as icons, heck you even have a serial killer as your pfp. But when we do it, we're the bad ones🤦‍♀️

[@Assassin99584]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@RmonK2000difference is you are idolising a real person whereas op simply has a movie character as his pfp

[@Assassin99584]

@ChrisJones-ek2gm he’s not a real person she however is

[@femcel123]

​@@Assassin99584the difference is irrelevant, if you idolise bateman, it means you idolise his actions and his views which is why you have absolutely no room to speak

[@Assassin99584]

@@femcel123 again bateman is a fictional character

[@emil.jansson]

What a great mind, so tragic.

[@ember-brandt]

"Great mind" 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩

[@TheOfficialJamesSpiker]

Great mind? Tf is wrong with you?

[@donaldwigglesworth5885]

I kind of like her. The world just wasn’t ready for her yet. And she’s from Atlantic County, NJ, like me!

[@ember-brandt]

🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩

[@BrownEyePinch]

If you cut up all the men, then how do you produce more women? She wasn't very bright

[@Iamhermajesty9]

God people in KZbin comments are so incredibly dumb . This woman was about as crazy as it gets, and incredibly traumatized by her childhood - nothing about anything she said or thought should be expected to make sense or be rational. And it has nothing to do with intelligence.

[@roddyboethius1722]

She didn't want the human race to continue

[@IzzyWitDaUzi]

She didn't want to cut up ALL the men.

[@1carlportl]

Hand job jill

[@BrownEyePinch]

No thanks I'd rather rub sandpaper on my thing

[@emil.jansson]

What a great mind, so tragic.

[@ember-brandt]

"Great mind" 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩