He's right though. The battle between being an independent thinker and fitting in has made people think they're the coolest folks on Earth for following trends within subcultures. The attempted intellectualization of consumption hasn't worked wonders.

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I don’t think what he was saying is as derogatory as you’re thinking it is. He’s commenting that by attempting to create a niche subculture of their own, these group of women unintentionally create their own standards of conformity and similarity to one another. He was very critical of many aspects of human nature and wrote very uniquely complex female characters in his works (at a time when this was not common at all for male authors).

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