It's important to understand that Natalie is not a leftist. This is not criticism from within for leftists to do better, where we know there's plenty of misogyny in wider society as well as leftist groups. This is left-punching from a liberal position of relative ignorance and likely the terminally online. The most likely function it serves is to rationalize why she is criticized from the left and why the people she associates with are criticized.

We can all see the truth in the need to make our spaces more coherently feminist and non-exhausting for marginalized groups, including women. In the West, we've inherited parties from actually class reductionist movements, frankly reactionaries, who called themselves socialist while doing jack shit outside of alienating a lot of people, and are far from truly recovering from that. But compared to wider society, including the radlib circles Natalie would feel most comfortable with, they are substantially better and are only outclassed by dedicated single-demographic interest groups, e.g. a women's group literally only populated by women.

It's important to see the function of these rationalizations for people like Natalie, that they are defensive, and that what they are defending is a liberalism that reproduces misogynistic repression but calls it pragmatic. That justifies, say, helping Hillary Clinton with her image despite her directing the mass impoverishment and violence towards millions of Libyan women, of ensuring that expectations around what is possible are lowered in every country. Regardless of whether this is about Clinton per se, it's the mindset Natalie has adopted, and it is, itself, reactionary.