Clarification

In Critical and Textual Hypermasculinity on page 157 paragraph 2 states;

"Several theories have noted that consumer culture and the culpable masses blamed for its existence have often been figured as feminine. Tania Modleski examines this aspect of historical accounts and emphasizes the problems involved in either simply condemning or celebrating these feminine inscriptions. Andreas Hyssen has also explored attacks on sentimental culture0slurs based on fears of the engulfing ooze of the masses which provoked the "reaction formation" of a virile and authorial modernism. Yet he concludes hisd analysis by claiming that such gendered rhetoric has diminished with the decline of modernisms. " mass culture and the masses as feminine threat-such notions belong to another age. Jean Bauldrillaurds recent ascriptions of femininity to the masses notwithstanding."

I was wondering if we could possibly make this section clearer for me because I read it many times and still don't understand it.