Consequently, on June 3, 1968, Solanas registered her objection to what she later called 'too much control' on Warhol's part by shooting him. Furthermore, she was a glutton for attention, and when Warhol did not provide her enough, she felt neglected by him. Solanas, who at that time was launching into a full-blown bout of paranoid schizophrenia, thus concluded that Warhol was actively out to get her. He also mislaid the manuscript, which was found thirty years later and produced in San Francisco. At one point, she gave him the manuscript for a play, engagingly titled ' Up Your Ass', which she wanted him to stage in his art gallery but the play was so packed with obscenity that Warhol, in Poe's Law mode, mistook it for an attempt at entrapment by the police. She palled about considerably with Andy Warhol, even getting a bit part in one of his films in 1967. Valerie Solanas, on her assassination attempt on Andy Warhol There was a distinct satiric tinge to this text, so it is probably best not to take it too seriously though she initially called it 'dead serious', later in life Solanas claimed the manifesto was not meant to be taken literally. Unlike most proponents of revolutions of that general type, she recognized and stated boldly that this effort would require a mass slaughter of men, otherwise known as gendercide, and setting up an all-female society her response was, 'Bring it on!' Solanas initially objected to the assertion that 'SCUM' was an acronym for 'Society for Cutting Up Men', but later used the phrase in a Village Voice advertisement. In this text, she described men and women as natural class enemies, a situation that only violent revolution could resolve. In 1968 Solanas published her SCUM Manifesto. “ ”Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.

Scum Manifesto by Valerie Solanas