Nobody has a personality anymore. Now you are always late not because you are forgetful, but because of ADHD. You are shy not because you are sweet, but autistic. You love deeply not because you are romantic, but anxiously attached. My latest for GIRLS: https://t.co/7uozQKyJSI

For our seventh episode of First Light I am joined by writer and cultural critic @freyaindiaa. We explore the unhappiness of Gen Z, the commodification of girls, the therapeutic age, and why limits liberate. Enjoy.

We have talked to death the pressure of getting married young, but we never talk about what this pressure does, the pressure to delay, the pressure to keep searching, the pressure to do life alone. https://t.co/jD7SWXgbzq

"Fundamental to liberalism is a suspicion of restraint, which inevitably becomes suspicion of human relationships. It promises liberation from every last tie until we are free of everything, including each other."

This will be MANDATORY READING for young girls and parents of young girls. Gen Z is in a dire situation.

These days, wanting to commit is the only thing in the modern world we are ever told to delay. My latest for @TheFP: https://t.co/W23PrRJXHi

This is an astoundingly well-written essay, aside from being well-thought-out, interesting and true: https://t.co/ofW32aWGNP

A paradox of liberalism is that one becomes a slave to choices, unable to act and choose because a choice implies a limitation, and limitation is the opposite of liberation. @freyaindiaa

Girls are less likely than boys to want marriage. Single women are far more likely than men to say they aren't dating due to “more important priorities”. And while most young single men are open to dating, only 36% of young women are. I wrote about why: https://t.co/jD7SWXgbzq

Victims of sexual trauma are being diagnosed as bipolar or BPD. Girls suffering mood changes from contraception are met with more drugs. Even puberty itself is being medicalised. In conversation with @DrMcFillin https://t.co/3yG7wYVBVk

They say my generation is wasting our lives watching mindless entertainment. But it’s worse than that: We’re not just consuming slop—we’re turning our own lives into it, writes Freya India for The Free Press.

We have been posting about our lives for a long time. But now I notice something else: I see people turning into TV characters, their memories into episodes, themselves into entertainment. We are the slop. My latest for the @TheFP: https://t.co/f462dLDmM9

Pre-ordered.

Freya India is one of the best writers of the GenZ generation. I highly recommend her work if you’re not familiar with it!

I've written a book! Girls® is available to pre-order now, out in 2026. It's about a web of industries, from the beauty industry to the pharmaceutical industry to the porn industry, and how we have transformed from people into products. Order here: https://t.co/oqD0cjKsIf

They say my generation is wasting our lives watching mindless entertainment. But things are worse than that. We are turning our lives into mindless entertainment. Not just consuming slop, but becoming it. https://t.co/jOujvExTrN

Neil Postman showed how TV trained us to expect entertainment everywhere. Freya India shows how social media trained young people to turn their own lives into slop for everyone else's entertainment. One of her best. Subscribe to https://t.co/jM1YTSTVnV https://t.co/SgqYr79XB4

I see people turning into TV characters, their memories into episodes, themselves into entertainment. We have become the meaningless content, swiped past and scrolled through. My latest for After Babel: https://t.co/jOujvExTrN

Can’t believe my newsletter GIRLS has reached 50,000 subscribers! Thank you so much to everyone who has read and shared my writing. Exciting announcement coming soon! https://t.co/M4uRKZzIjM

"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say". My thoughts are with Charlie Kirk's family.

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