Candace Owens Blasts Scam of Feminism in Passionate TPUSA Speech

Candace Owens kicked off Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit Thursday afternoon and blasted the “scam” of feminism during a passionate speech.

Candace Owens gave the audience of young women a brief background on her past as a liberal Democrat. It was a college course — Feminism 101 — that made her realize that feminism was not for her.

The “BLEXIT” founder argued that feminism — once a good thing — has been hijacked by the left.

“What the left is really good at doing is hijacking a term that once meant something and pretending that it’s still the same thing when, in fact, it’s not,” Owens said.

“Really, if you want to see something toxic, tell a feminist — who says they support every idea a woman has — tell a feminist that you’re not a feminist and see what happens. See the way that you get treated,” she continued.

“I can’t think of women that are nastier and meaner than the ones who exist under these pussy hats, right?” she added.

Owens pivoted to her distaste for the #MeToo movement and the backlash she received for speaking against it. However, she said the truth eventually came out in the form of the Kavanaugh hearings.

Substitute teacher whose sobbing mugshot went viral reaches plea deal in sex case involving student

Six underage girls recovered in sweeping operation targeting notorious trafficking corridor

Man accused of Ilhan Omar liquid attack pleads guilty, may face 14-month sentence

Four States Are Now Monitoring Potential Hantavirus Cases

Examining the Self-Imposed Ignorance of Those Afflicted with TDS

Results vs resistance: Collins and Platner draw battle lines in Maine Senate race

Tennessee passes new map as Democratic politicians protest with airhorns

Left-wing local leader torched after griping about American flags, pushing ‘more relatable’ replacement

Swing-district Republican breaks with Trump, pushes limits on Iran war

Powerful Dem’s jabs at Trump come back to haunt her after office raided by FBI: ‘Aged well’

DeSantis hits Obama with brutal one-line response to DOJ politicization accusation: ‘Would like a word’

Karoline Leavitt welcomes daughter Viviana: ‘perfect and healthy’

EXCLUSIVE: Harvard-Trained MD Says ‘Coercive’ Vaccine Push Shattered Trust and Has Harris Voters Questioning the Experts

Watch: Hero Dad With a Gun Takes on Carjacker Who Turned Out to Be an Illegal… and Is Now Dead

Rabid beaver attacks boy fishing at New Jersey lake, prompting health officials to warn residents

“Suddenly, everybody woke up and they realized that this was not about empowering women,” she said. “This was not a movement that was really about giving people a voice who have struggled in their past. It was about getting power and getting it by any means necessary.”

She said the “bitter” and “angry” left can’t understand the fact that men and women cannot be separated and blasted the left for telling women otherwise.

She told the crowd about an upsetting comment she read online after having a conversation on the dangers of feminism with Allie Beth Stuckey. The comment was from a 55-year-old woman who said she fell for the modern day feminist lies, leaving her with no children and forcing her to take medication regularly.

“If there’s anything I could go back and do, I would’ve warned myself against the scam of feminism,” the woman wrote.

Owens brought up a number of far-left feminist icons in Hollywood, including Lena Dunham, Miley Cyrus, and Chelsea Handler.

“I believe these voices like Lena Dunham, and Miley Cyrus, and Chelsea Handler are convincing women against themselves, telling women, ‘You don’t need a man. You don’t need anyone. You should want to do everything by yourself. And if you do aspire to that — if you aspire toward nature — then something’s wrong with you,’” Owens said.