Freya India
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1,466 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 14 Jun
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If women do it.
But if women commit early, other women express this fear for them, like, oh, you're going to give up some of your potential.
And I think that's because
we think that women had more to be liberated from.
And so now if women close down their options, we see that as suspect and we worry for them.
Well, I'm not obviously an evolutionary psychologist, but I see it from a cultural perspective that you have so many messages coming at young women to be on guard, constantly on guard, like looking for problems.
And so you have a feminist message that, you know, you have to be independent.
You can't let a man get in the way of your goals, right?
But then you also have a therapeutic message, which is like, be on guard for any red flags, any signs that someone is not good enough or you're incompatible.
And so I think young women might feel something like an ick and then they're encouraged, especially by social media, to take that feeling really seriously, which is like, if you feel some negative emotion toward your partner, you're incompatible or there's something wrong.
And so I think we're just way more, we're bracing all the time to see the red flags.
Yeah.
That's what I was going to say is I think it's more time to introspect and ruminate because you have girls and young women not just picking up on icks in their partner and like scrutinizing them and looking for flaws, but then doing that to themselves.
So constantly pathologizing, diagnosing themselves, wondering what's wrong with them, over analyzing their personality traits.
And so I do think it's just more time and less time.
bigger problems like say having children where you put your neuroticism, you funnel it into something productive and instead it then turns inwards or also against your partner.
Yeah, I mean, this is kind of what we were talking about before, which is that I think social media platforms have incentivized women to see themselves less as human and more as products.
And so their life becomes about marketing themselves and optimizing themselves.
And so I think, yeah, having a child disrupts being the perfect pristine product.
But then we're in this really weird scenario where...
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