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The answer is yes and no.
Women like Zaryi are pretty archetypical. They're too insecure to accept themselves as they are (and the louder they insist that they do, the louder the susurrus of doubts inside their own heads) and too insecure to examine who they are and change the parts they don't like in a way that will make them happy.
They are fed a steady stream of unrealistic expectations by the media and similarly influenced peers. Because they are not perfect, these expectations can't be met in any rational way. And the daily frustration they meet must be explained away: social bias in favor of men, objectification of women, religion, men are terrible people, whatever. And because women define reality socially in a way men do not, they can't just disregard what seems to them the deafening roar of their peers.
This is where they become Jezebel readers.
High on this tripe, they dart from failed relationship to failed relationship, through "cynically idealistic" political activism and exploitative employment, chasing that rainbow. When they find some success, they quickly tear it apart, searching for the mother lode: turning successful businesses and institutions into piles of shit by forcing out all the men who make them successful (I have seen this happen firsthand many times), breaking up relationships by constantly raising the stakes, playing silly power games like trying to begin and end every conversation, always trying to bully for the sake of bullying, until any man with common sense throws up his hands and walks away. The men who don't are just emo - they play the court jester, the macho man, and the crybaby on cue. They're tools, and unsurprisingly, can't provide fulfilling long-term relationships, let alone marriage.
When this approach invites further drama, disaster, and general unhappiness, they crawl back to Jezebel and their delusions are reinforced by their "support group". Women's "support groups" abound on the internet. Radical feminists are a lot less scary than what most women these days actually believe - not radical but just plain crazy.
Going back to Zaryi as a case example. She very obviously plays stupid power games then denies she's doing it. She attends SlutWalks yet thinks it's outrageous that women are photographed in public wearing the clothes they choose to put on. She gets queasy about her flatmates hearing her sex but then makes a show for people she sees as below her on the social pyramid. She cries about women not being taken seriously or facing discrimination yet benefits from pro-female bias and refuses to engage men on equivocal terms. She talks about herself as strong and independent while manifesting irrational, unthinking loyalty to one base of power or another.
All of which inevitably leads to the "freeze your eggs" lifestyle. And when that lifestyle proves wanting, well, there's always Jezebel to explain it away.
The alternative would be to examine life in a reasonable way and make balanced choices: no, you don't always get your way; yes, men may find you less than perfectly attractive, you may have to work at it a bit; your successes may not always be yours and your failures may not always be others (nor vice versa); you can't approach friendships etc as a tug-of-war, etc.
If libertarianism is a philosophy of ignorance then "cynically idealistic" feminism is an ideology of whims.
What feminists like to call "cynical idealism" and what right-wingers like to call "libertarianism" are both the same thing and are part of a wider social monsoon in this country. Business, education, society, you name it. The pushing of outrageous claims that can't possibly be met in reality. When the cards begin to be called, the claims grow more outrageous. Diminishing returns sets in. Those who offer reasonable solutions are drowned out.
Before long, what you have, is what we have now, which is a society as a mass of rackets.
Jezebel is merely one such racket.
Aestu of Bleeding Hollow... Nihilism is a copout.
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