Scarf #43 references Caravaggio’s Medusa of 1597, in the form of an ink drawing silkscreened onto pre-dyed fabric. I recently read Andrea Long Chu’s book Females which examines gender in Valerie Solanas’s work, among other things, and takes as its premise the idea that “everyone is female, and everyone hates it.” I liked Chu’s revision of Freud’s take on the Medusa. For Freud, the myth of the Medusa head turning men to stone -- including the idea that the gorgon’s mouth is a vagina -- is a simple expression of castration anxiety. Chu however asserts that “the little boy, forced by the abyssal glimpse of female genitalia to consider the possibility that his own penis will be removed, secretly finds the idea arousing.” “Women... don’t have penis envy,” Valerie fumes in SCUM. “Men have pussy envy.”