Feminist's Anti-American Speech Causes Uproar

This story on Canada.com details a recent Canadian controversy in which a former president of NAC spoke to a women's conference (to much applause) about America's "trail of blood," adding that people should not feel pain for the deaths of those who were attacked and killed on Sept. 11. (One wonders if she would feel the same had 80 percent of the victims been female.) Naturally, the speech has generated much controversy. One interesting thing about this woman, though, is her stance on mainstream feminism: As the outspoken leader of the NAC, Thobani created much controversy when she said in 1995 that only white, middle-class women had benefited from the feminist movement. Although I do not agree with her anti-American rant, I actually do tend to agree with her statement about the feminist movement.

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