E388. What the Internet Did to Girls | Freya India - Walk-Ins Welcome

Bridget Phetasy sits down with Freya India, British writer and author of Girls: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything, to dig into why Gen Z women are struggling in ways previous generations didn't. They discuss why it's not simply a case of kids being soft, and how the mental health crisis among young women isn't just about bad parenting or weak foundations, but predatory industries stepping into the vacuum left by family breakdown, community loss, and the decline of religion — and selling girls a simulation of everything they lost. They cover the over-medicalization of normal teenage behavior, the saturation of therapeutic language into everything, the porn industry's formative role in shaping Gen Z's understanding of relationships, and why the answer probably isn't age verification or government intervention.

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