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Influence and analysis Author James Martin Harding explained that, by declaring herself independent from Warhol, after her arrest she "aligned herself with the historical avant-garde's rejection of the traditional structures of bourgeois theater,"[95] and that her anti-patriarchal "militant hostility... pushed the avant-garde in radically new directions."[96] Harding believed that Solanas' assassination attempt on Warhol was its own theatrical performance.[97] At the shooting, she left on a table at the Factory a paper bag containing a gun, her address book, and a sanitary napkin.[98] Harding stated that leaving behind the sanitary napkin was part of the performance,[99] and called "attention to basic feminine experiences that were publically [sic] taboo and tacitly elided within avant-garde circles."[100] Feminist philosopher Avital Ronell compared Solanas to an array of people: Lorena Bobbitt; a "girl Nietzsche"; Medusa; the Unabomber;...