Status Updates From GIRLS®: Gen Z and the Commo...

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"One example of this is the rise of 'child-free influencers' in recent years, who not only normalize but glamorize the choice to not have children."

As someone who has never wanted kids, piss off. We are finally in an era where women aren't wholly expect to have kids by society because we can actually have lives outside of the Home Space. That is the freedom of choice: I don't want kids and that is entirely fine!!!

"Without religion, community, or shared responsibilities, there were no clear milestones to adulthood, no real obligations, and no obvious sense of direction."

we are certainly pushing a white picket fence vibe right now

"Tate is of course an extreme example. Many influencers promoting masculinity give helpful advice to young men on relationships and responsibility."

girl where

she COULD discuss the negative consequences of assigning everyone the label of "narcissist" and how this further stigmatises an already vulnerable population but instead she's like "don't cut off your parents, think of what YOU did wrong instead"

is divorce being seen as aspirational in the room with us

there's potential here for anti psychiatry discussions (as in the actual political thing, not the boohoo therapy evil kind) but somehow i feel like india isn't used to the forced institutionalisation and medicalisation of those with "scary" disorders

"girls identify too strongly with their mental health struggles"

"young girls are trans because it's cool"....

"liberal women have more mental health diagnoses because social media" "some psychiatrists question if did even exists" girl shut up

"what mental health medication stigma?" girl do you live under a rock

“And now the very companies that hollowed out our friendships have the nerve to sell us their substitutes”

Oh so we can acknowledge that there is corporate blame here and not just influencers and our failing family systems

"Church attendance is dropping, too. Over the past twenty years, the share of US adults who attend weekly or nearly weekly religious services has steadily declined"

Some of us believe in other religions or are atheist ma'am, do you have general stats on religious communities, or do you only care about Christianity and it's downward trend in attendance.

"Something else is now destabilizing families, too. Increasingly, young people themselves are choosing to cut of family members"

OH MY GOD FREYA SOME PEOPLE ARE ABUSIVE AND WE DON'T NEED TO MAKE EXCUSES TO KEEP THEM IN OUR LIVES EVEN IF THEY ARE FAMILY

"Attitudes have also changed. By the late 2010s, divorce was seen not only as acceptable in some situations but desirable."

What kind of trolly problem is this, are we advocating for staying in unhappy or potentially abusive relationships?

"When friends did come for sleepovers, we took selfies for Facebook, we posted anonymous questions on Ask.fm, we sat side by side, scrolling."

I won't deny having done this a little in the early to mid 2010s when social media was fairly new but tbh this sounds like a you problem cause this got old for me and my friends fast and we went back to watching movies and staying up to late complaining about teachers.

"Girls may even become convinced that they need medical intervention. Some have begun hormone treatments that can lead to a loss of fertility, sometimes irreversible. Double mastectomies have also been performed on girls as young as twelve."

What in the conservative white mans podcast. I'm going to throw this book out a window.