The Pyranhas were an
informal group of punk female
sexual predators who lived at
the Canterbury Apartments.
Shown clockwise from left are
some of the Pyranhas: Margo,
Alice, Shannon and Jane. You
might recognize a couple of
future Go-Go's in this picture.
Alice recalls that this photo was
taken in San Francisco during a
Pyranhas roadtrip and that
several other girls (more than
the four shown here) all stayed
in one room at the Sam Wong
Hotel in Chinatown.
Members of the Pyranhas
eventually formed Castration
Squad, which took it's
manifesto partly from Valerie
Solanas' SCUM Manifesto,
an excerpt of which is reprinted
to the right.
informal group of punk female
sexual predators who lived at
the Canterbury Apartments.
Shown clockwise from left are
some of the Pyranhas: Margo,
Alice, Shannon and Jane. You
might recognize a couple of
future Go-Go's in this picture.
Alice recalls that this photo was
taken in San Francisco during a
Pyranhas roadtrip and that
several other girls (more than
the four shown here) all stayed
in one room at the Sam Wong
Hotel in Chinatown.
Members of the Pyranhas
eventually formed Castration
Squad, which took it's
manifesto partly from Valerie
Solanas' SCUM Manifesto,
an excerpt of which is reprinted
to the right.
"...On the other hand, those
females least embedded in the male
'Culture', the least nice, those crass
and simple souls who reduce
fucking to fucking, who are too
childish for the grown-up world of
suburbs, mortgages, mops and baby
shit, too selfish to raise kids and
husbands, too uncivilized to give a
shit for anyone's opinion of them,
too arrogant to respect Daddy, the
'Greats' or the deep wisdom of the
Ancients, who trust only their own
animal, gutter instincts, who equate
Culture with chicks, whose sole
diversion is prowling for emotional
thrills and excitement, who are
given to disgusting, nasty, upsetting
'scenes', hateful, violent bitches
given to slamming those who
unduly irritate them in the teeth,
who'd sink a shiv into a man's chest
or ram an icepick up his asshole as
soon as look at him, if they knew
they could get away with it, in short,
those who, by the standards of our
'culture' are SCUM...these females
are cool and relatively cerebral and
skirting asexuality." - Valerie
Solanas
females least embedded in the male
'Culture', the least nice, those crass
and simple souls who reduce
fucking to fucking, who are too
childish for the grown-up world of
suburbs, mortgages, mops and baby
shit, too selfish to raise kids and
husbands, too uncivilized to give a
shit for anyone's opinion of them,
too arrogant to respect Daddy, the
'Greats' or the deep wisdom of the
Ancients, who trust only their own
animal, gutter instincts, who equate
Culture with chicks, whose sole
diversion is prowling for emotional
thrills and excitement, who are
given to disgusting, nasty, upsetting
'scenes', hateful, violent bitches
given to slamming those who
unduly irritate them in the teeth,
who'd sink a shiv into a man's chest
or ram an icepick up his asshole as
soon as look at him, if they knew
they could get away with it, in short,
those who, by the standards of our
'culture' are SCUM...these females
are cool and relatively cerebral and
skirting asexuality." - Valerie
Solanas
