Freya India

A lot of the vices of young women are sort of indulged by the new social justice movement.

So I think that's happening.

But then also you combine that with social media platforms and young women are just sucked into it in a way that young men aren't.

Yeah, and I think that's where what the new statesman would draw from all this is that women have negative views of men because men are bad rather than why do they have negative views of men?

What rabbit holes are they going down?

When it's young men, it's always a rabbit hole that they've gone down.

But young women are reacting to a real issue.

Whereas I've seen so many parallels between the sort of extreme manosphere guys and call her daddy.

It's the same language.

It's the same language.

like thumbnails and titles so it would be like we don't need men and we don't need women exactly the same and the way again they speak about women is identical was 2020 a turning point for girls online

I think it was the first time that I remember being called out for not posting something.

And so something really changed in terms of you have to join in.

The pressure and the fear of your reputation changed.

being smeared especially if you were a teenage girl at the time um so i remember being i would think i was 19 when black lives matter protests were happening and the sort of again you had celebrities and influencers being called out but then you had ordinary girls coming after each other for not posting stuff and i give the context in the book that

We were basically posting everything online by that point.

So every relationship, memory, holiday was updated and compulsively shared with people.

And so if you're doing that and then you don't post a black square, it looks really suspect because everything else is shared.

And so I think what changed in 2020 is amazing.

morality became measurable and instantly judged by your instagram profile um and i think when you're a teenage girl your life is basically just constant reputation management and so that really hit young girls this idea that you're not a good person if you're not joining in and you're not displaying um where you stand on things what was that silence is consent tagline yeah