Featuring the real-life cast-list of Lou Reed's classic and caustic queer anthem, Walk on the Wild Side, Women in Revolt has been seen as Warhol's revenge for his shooting by Valerie Solanas three years earlier. Solanas had pointedly attacked Warhol's libertarian involvement with transsexuals, arguing that as all men wanted to be women, they laid waste to the world to compensate for their lack. The film, which Time Out reviewed as "Three transvestites play at being women playing at being Women" has Long Island socialite-turned-actress, Candy Darling's revolt ending up on the casting couch, Holly Woodlawn's model becoming a druggy Bohemian/drop-out, and schoolteacher Jackie Curtis destined to be the obligatory housewife. Curtis, however, on whose life the film is based, steals the show when she pays to lose her virginity to a former Mr. America in an attempt to "find out what we're fighting against". Little surprise then that the 80s women's movement reeked its revenge on TSs. Warhol's favourite film.