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Insofar as she's a feminist, she's a pop feminist--an Oprah or Lifetime feminist, a cheerleader for women in all their travails.
One can argue about whether this style of basketball reflects only the general tendency of lower-income people to self-advertise conspicuously, as described above, or reflects also the unique historical travails of American blacks.
The travails of the French franc in the '20s were thoroughly modern, and the speculative attacks that brought down the Bretton Woods system of exchange rates in the early '70s were almost as big, compared with the size of the economies involved, as the biggest recent blowouts.
Hardly a word of complaint about her travails with her autistic son.
As a case in point, consider the recent travails of Disney.