 Solanas 's role as a cult figure was solidified with the publication of the SCUM Manifesto and her shooting of Andy Warhol . Harding explained that , by declaring herself independent from Andy Warhol , after her arrest she " aligned herself with the historical avant @-@ garde 's rejection of the traditional structures of bourgeois theater " , and Harding explained that her anti @-@ patriarchal " militant hostility ... pushed the avant @-@ garde in radically new directions . " Harding believed that Solanas 's assassination attempt on Warhol was its own theatrical performance . At the shooting , she left on a table at the Factory a paper bag in which she carried a gun , her address book , and a sanitary napkin . Harding stated that leaving behind the sanitary napkin was part of the performance , and called " attention to basic feminine experiences that were <unk> [ sic ] taboo and tacitly elided within avant @-@ garde circles . " 
