Thank you very much for your reply. As an example, let's examine just-world theory and system justification theory more closely. Both have the same gist that we need to see the world as a predictable, safe and controllable environment where people generally get what they deserve. This helps us to invest in the future and work towards our goals without feelings of constant doubt and anxiety. We love to feel in-control and hate random, senseless, external and uncontrollable events at least on our subconscious level.

According to these theories, what happens when we witness inequalities and injustices is that we tend to distort them via denial, rationalizations and other tricks in order to preserve a belief in a just world. Just in a sense that people reap what they sow and get what's coming for them. This can be seen for example in people blaming the poor for laziness and rape victims for 'asking for it'. Needless to say that both theories are endorsed by academic feminists, arguing that for example 'privilege blindness', anti-fat attitudes and other anti-SJW attitudes are fueled by people's need to believe in a just world.

TRP ideas are much about self-mastery and improvement. Taking charge of your life with no excuses. Attributing failure to laziness, ignorance or lack of willpower is commonplace in TRP literature but virtually non-existent in psychological literature, which sees such attributions mostly as illusions. 'The real cause' is mostly external instead of internal, in the situation instead of character and outside of control although we like to think otherwise. There's tons of other examples in psychological / sociological literature about the effect, and my concerns were mostly about this divergence between academic psychology and TRP about this.

Of course, much like you said one could argue that the feminization of modern academia is fueling the ideas. According to political surveys most psychology researchers are from the liberal left, so it doesn't come as a surprise why they'd do 'research' which implies that bigger government control and social funding is the answer. How personal failures are no one's fault and all the problems lie in external causes. Anyway, if you have anything to add or correct I'd be most grateful.