She can scarcely construct a rhythmic sentence. And this sensationalism is compounded by her appalling writing. One of her books begins with the apparent assumption that all women are raped and abused from childhood onwards. Such criticisms are fair in that Mackinnon does not hesitate to present her thought in sensational terms. A leading American judge, Richard A Posner, has said she "depicts the United States as a vast conspiracy of men to rape and terrorise women". Indeed, so hard-line are her views that she has been accused by some more moderate feminists of operating a "sexual double standard" in which sex is good for the man but automatically degrades the woman. One of her books is entitled Towards a Feminist Theory of the State, indicating that she sees feminism as a doctrine of transformation rather then reform. She is emphatically not a liberal feminist.
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