She is pointing out the hypocrisy that plagues American politics she also pointed out that in Russia women then had the vote and this was still denied women in America. Thinking, feeling, acting. That is what we have to understand. As Bruce warns us in Lenny, we need our deviants. We need to have people pushing us to change.
Human existence is all about change.
Change can only happen for the better when we have free speech, when information flows freely, when we do not have censorship. In I Shot Any Warhol, Valarie Solaras is rejected because her ideas are too radical. In a more open society, we would make more room for such individuals, we would be more accepting of them even if we did not agree with or like what they have to say. Maplethorpe took beautiful pictures .he also sometimes took very disturbing pictures. The film Dirty Pictures examines the effort to censor his art.