There are many reasons for members of a group to gloss over serious problems--the most common is that they themselves have not been impacted and have not become conscious to those who are. They are thus fortunate.

As a case in point, only recently-- with the RW's overt war on women with attempts to control every part of their reproductive life-- have many young women begun to wake up to the battles their feminist elders fought. That they were formerly oblivious to the issues, hardly means the problems weren't there, were not "real".