Your Personality Is Not a Disorder: Social Media, Girls and Gen Z, with Freya India

Today on Ask a Jew, we’re joined by writer Freya India, author of Girls: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything, to talk about what growing up as a girl looks like in the age of Instagram, how we are all carrying generational trauma from Eve, and why not everything in your life is a problem to be fixed. Turns out we’re all just 13-year-old girls! Now go buy the book.

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We also get into why social media can feel like a “rumination machine” for anxious girls, how beauty culture and Facetune turn teenagers into products, and why every normal feeling is suddenly language‑ified into a “disorder,” a “trauma,” or a “healing journey.” We also talk about what boys are seeing online, the rise of “looksmaxxing,” and whether anyone knows how to have a normal relationship anymore. If you’re a parent, a millennial/Gen X woman looking at Gen Z with horror, or a Gen Z girl trying to make sense of your own feed, this one is for you.

Also:

* Will the allure beauty box change your life?

* We are all just 13 year old girls

* Social media escalaes every trend o the extreme

* Not everything needs to be solved

* Is therapy a scam?

* We’re all trying to gain control

* social media is a rumination machine

* Beware of therapy talk

* Feeling anxious? you’re probably normal

* The stories we tell ourselves

* We all have generational trauma from Eve

* You think you need therapy? Go live in Somalia!

* Freya is so pretty

* Is every personality trait is a problem?

* We don’t care about your healing journeys

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