Leah McLaren: As a Working Mom, I (mostly) Get Sophie’s Problems
The controversy swirling around Sophie Grégoire Trudeau’s lifestyle choices reached a deliriously unhinged denouement this week. First, she was pilloried in Parliament and by the conservative press for being an ungrateful whiner with pathetically middle-class problems. Next, she was defended as a bullying victim in the liberal media before, finally, the Guardian newspaper held her up to the world as an international feminist icon for “challenging the fairy tale that women can do it all.”
