Modernist? You need to look that word up. Feminists? Not mentioned in the article. And the explicit/implicit arguments found there aren't feminist in nature. Not sure you know enough about the issue to suggest the writer has no sense of humour.
It's simple.
Imagine your daughter became addicted to drugs and fell into prostitution. Imagine she died from that life in a bad area of town. Now imagine walking into a restaurant in that area to find that its 'funny' theme has the servers dressed like hookers and at the bar you order drinks like "$100 gets you everything." What would you feel? Get it now?