Today on Ask a Jew, we’re joined by writer Freya India, author of Girls: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything, to talk about what growing up as a girl looks like in the age of Instagram, how we are all carrying generational trauma from Eve, and why not everything in your life is a problem to be fixed. Turns out we’re all just 13-year-old girls! Now go buy the book.
Do you know you can watch this episode on YouTube? Well, you can!
We also get into why social media can feel like a “rumination machine” for anxious girls, how beauty culture and Facetune turn teenagers into products, and why every normal feeling is suddenly language‑ified into a “disorder,” a “trauma,” or a “healing journey.” We also talk about what boys are seeing online, the rise of “looksmaxxing,” and whether anyone knows how to have a normal relationship anymore. If you’re a parent, a millennial/Gen X woman looking at Gen Z with horror, or a Gen Z girl trying to make sense of your own feed, this one is for you.
Also:
Will the allure beauty box change your life?
We are all just 13 year old girls
Social media escalaes every trend o the extreme
Not everything needs to be solved
Is therapy a scam?
We’re all trying to gain control
social media is a rumination machine
Beware of therapy talk
Feeling anxious? you’re probably normal
The stories we tell ourselves
We all have generational trauma from Eve
You think you need therapy? Go live in Somalia!
Freya is so pretty
Is every personality trait is a problem?
We don’t care about your healing journeys
