These features are also her most commonly criticized, and often her progressivism is attacked for its blatant appeal to the government for control and censorship, especially of pornography. In her mind, there needs to be radical change in order to achieve the fair treatment of women in the modern world. No, in this case her goal would be a revolution, a systematic overhaul of the assumptions around feminist issues. Perhaps also, her ideas might be seen as Marxist in light of her understanding of women as a historically oppressed class, in which case her goal would not be to merely identify the problem and offer a suggestion on paths forward. Instead, she uses incisive, aggressive rhetorical devices to help break down the paradigmatic resistance to reform. This is not just an important feature of her feminist theory, but it also indicates the attitude she takes in her writings. She skips right over those to pursue government control of the market for sexually explicit material. She is not advocating for the correct treatment of sex workers or the restoration of the depiction of women. Take for instance her commentary of pornography, a commonly criticized position.

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