Its cool that they're recognizing Warhol's contribution to our nation's history, but everyone shitting all over Solanas need to put things into context. It is super easy to claim the moral high ground and judge historical figures by modern standards, but for all her faults Solanas was a truly impressive individual. Instead of rushing to condemn her as a feminazi asshole, maybe look at what she lived through and try to understand how it shaped the person she became. By her twenties she had written several plays, was a survivor of sexual abuse, and openly a lesbian. Her grandfather frequently beat her, and her baby was taken from her. Solanas was a teenage lesbian in a country where people were arrested for being gay because of alleged "sexual psycopathy."

Shitty hand or not, the woman pulls herself up by her bootstraps and graduates college, attends graduate school, and successful writer. Her early writing career is what really affected her though in my opinion. For basically her entire life she played a role of defending women from violent men. Put yourself in her shoes. You fight the your father off as a child only to start fighting your step-father. Then the your Grandfather shows back. Then you're homeless at fifteen because it's the only option where some man isn't beating you. Then the state takes your child away because you're an unmarried women. The lady's entire life was a long string of gendered conflict that is beyond the understanding people today. All of this before a time when society even acknowledged that women people were in fact fully people. By today's standards she would be a monster, but by the standards of the time you can't really blame a lady who spent her life fighting dudes for shooting Warhol.

I'm not trying to defend her actions or say she should remain on the bill - I just think the woman's contributions to our nation during its civil right's years are deserving of a legacy more encompassing the role she played and instead simply calling her a misandrist [insert your favorite explicitive, it starts with a c]. Americans born today are fortunate enough to be born into one of the most powerful and wealthy societies in the history of the world. We don't have to worry about independence, foreign invaders, native hostilities, etc. Solanas had a hard life and as a result became a hard woman. She was certainly no saint, and undeniably did some horrible things, but she also played a extremely significant role in the creation and rise of our nation - something we all take for granted while we judge the actions of others from the comfort of our computer chairs.

You don't have to like the lady or sing her praises, but you also dont have to reduce her entire life to one subset of actions. What ever happened to "if you cant say something nice, dont say nothing at all?"