Freya India

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Modern Wisdom · The Extreme Crisis of Young Women - Freya India - #1090 · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

We're thinking about women, previous generations of women, but I think this generation of women is very different and their values are very different.

And so my argument in the book is that you're being encouraged to focus on all the wrong wants rather than what you actually need, which I would argue is what all humans need, basic human connection, dependence on other people.

I've actually argued that it's the opposite.

And in my experience, it's been the opposite, which is that, so Emma Watson was talking about this recently on a podcast and she was saying that it's a violence and a cruelty against young women, this pressure to settle down.

And then it's overwhelming and that she feels in such a rush to do it.

And I just couldn't relate to that at all.

And I don't, thinking about the women in my life, I don't think that is what's happening.

I think for the women I'm talking about, there's much more pressure to stay single, to stay unattached, to stay available.

And I think what Emma is really describing when she talks about the rush and the hurry is she feels pressure to cram in all her self-actualization before she meets someone.

So in the podcast, she's talking about healing herself and fixing her mental health and becoming the best version of herself and becoming whole and healed and enlightened.

And I think that's a core message that young women are growing up with, which is that you need to be perfect before you take on a responsibility or commit to someone.

And so I don't think there's pressure to settle down.

I think there's pressure to be perfect before you meet someone, which often is pressure to stay single.

Yeah, it's the end of something.

Yeah, and part of the reason I wanted to write the book is to give people a sense of young women's childhood.

So how long they've been marketing themselves as a product and thinking of themselves in this way.

And I think that's really hard to just switch.

And so I talk about girls being on Instagram at 10 or 11, that every experience they have, they feel they have to document, market, perform for other people.

Everything is done in anticipation of an audience.

And then you're asking them to do things that are scary and have a quiet satisfaction and where they would have to give up some part of themselves.

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