 One significant dimension of this inequality is that women’s speech, where it occurs, lacks the credibility, authority and influence of men’s. Women as a group are systematically and differentially silenced, MacKinnon thinks; and pornography contributes to this in at least three ways (MacKinnon 1987, 1995; for further discussion, see Caponetto 2021; Maitra 2009; McGowan 2017, 2019; West 2021).