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

so few practice of socializing with people and having to turn up to something.

Yeah, I think actually the response to the book has given me hope.

I think that when I was growing up, I often just thought this is just me struggling with these things.

So it's been really reassuring to have young women say they've also felt so anxious and not quite had the language to describe

why um and also having a response from young men there's been a lot of young men who are worried about the girlfriends or the sisters or women in their lives and want to help and i think if you scroll through twitter you wouldn't expect that but i think it is happening we are starting to care about each other freya thank you so much for coming on and talking about this thank you so much i really loved it

That was Freya India discussing her new book, Girls, Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything.

And this has been a weekend edition of Morning Wire.

The Rest Is Politics · Struggling or Snowflakes? The Gen Z Mental Health Story · 21 May 2026 podcast

I think that we are essentially the same in what we worry about and the problems that we would describe in our lives.

So we would probably say it's relationships, it's how we look, it's how we feel, things that previous generations would relate to.

But I think what's different about us is we're trying to navigate all of these normal feelings in a very different context with a very different backdrop.

And it's actually so new that you can't even...

describe it to older generations you can't even find the words and so I think that adds another layer of difficulty for our generation that it's hard for adults to keep up and keep track and it's hard for us to even know what's causing the anxiety and so I think that it's not materially the hardest time but I do think psychologically it's very different and demanding.

Yeah, well, I used to think that.

I actually used to think that about myself.

Again, there's something wrong with me where I am not resilient.

I'm not socially confident enough and I just need to get over it.

And I do think there's some truth in that.

I do think that

a lot of the answers to our anxiety are leaning into the anxiety, forcing yourself to do things that are uncomfortable.

So I understand the sort of narrative that you need to be more resilient and embrace discomfort a little bit more.

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