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Page, Page, Page. You mischaracterize my argument when you summarize it as an attack on, of all things, fun (fun, the regulating principle of spinster aunting, is a practice to which I devote many happy hours daily).
So, no, fun isn't 'antifeminist'; in fact, 'fun' isn't a political movement at all. What chaps the Twisty hide isn't so much that young hipsters like to read magazines about hair-dos and clothes, but rather that this superficial consumerist self-absorption is billed, apparently without irony, as some kind of "in your face, patriarchy!" political action.
