Attention-seeking?

One upon a time, Germaine Greer was a respected intellectual. As Wikipedia says, The Female Eunuch was "an international bestseller and a watershed text in the feminist movement; the book offered a systematic deconstruction of ideas such as womanhood and femininity, arguing that women are forced to assume submissive roles in society to fulfill male fantasies of what being a woman entails".

Her latest public intervention leads me to wonder if, at the age of 79, she enjoys stirring up controversy for controversy's sake.  The Guardian reports:

Germaine Greer has called for the lowering of punishment for rape and said society should not see it as a “spectacularly violent crime” but instead view it more as “lazy, careless and insensitive”.

She suggested that a fitting sentence for the offence might be 200 hours’ community service and perhaps an “r” tattoo on the rapist’s hand, arm or cheek.

Speaking at the Hay literary festival, the feminist academic argued that rape is rampant in society and the legal system cannot cope with it because it always comes down to the issue of consent, with the victims becoming little more than “bits of evidence”.

Is this a serious contribution?