Freya India

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Morning Wire · How Girlhood Became a Product · 14 Jun 2026 podcast

And so our families were falling apart.

We had collapsing communities.

We were less religious than previous generations.

And so I think we had so little to sort of hold on to.

And then when social media platforms came along,

they provided these perfect simulations of things that we'd never experienced in the first place.

And so our first experience of community was on Instagram or our first experience of relationships was from online porn.

And so I think we had this vacuum that companies were ready to fill and exploit.

I think because, like I said, it was a lot of simulations being sold to us.

And I almost just started to realize that this was not the real thing.

There are actually bad incentives with this new version.

So for example, the therapy companies were almost offering a replacement for friends and family.

You know, they were saying that they could give us advice through coming of age.

They could help us with dating.

They could do all of these things that parents used to do.

And all throughout the book, I talk about

These companies that use the language of loneliness and belonging because they know that's what young girls and young men are feeling.

They really desperately want to belong somewhere.

And so we have social media companies and porn companies in the mental health industry all offering their alternatives to human connection.

people really underestimate how much young people think that their problems can be solved through professional intervention or even medication.

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