SCUM MANIFESTO Echoes 83

opportunity to pass laws — each more repressive than the last.

You wonder why they have chosen a room that usually hosts thea-tre performances to organise this series of conferences?

Their treachery is utterly terrifying.

Let me explain.

They employ a drama technique to gain control over us.

Their trick: teichoscopy AKA “viewing from the wall” which al-lows us to talk about it but prevents any violent action to take place on stage.

We can hear about it but can’t see shit.

We have the right to speak but not to take action!

We are free to criticise them but we can only do so using their phraseology, endings, nomenclatures and grammar.

The language is conjugated in the feminine.

As evidenced by the atrocities they spread:

To love intelligent men is a lesbian pleasure.

Charlène Baudelaire

When they walk, men can show it all without letting us see anything

Honorine de Balzac

The first woman who compared a man to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile

Géraldine de Nerval

Extremely beautiful men cause less surprise the second day.

Marie-Henriette Beyle also know as Stendhale

A woman is such a complex machine that in some cases