Your Personality Is Not a Disorder: Social Media, Girls and Gen Z, with Freya India

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 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit askajew.substack.com/subscribe