Why have so many young women moved far left, seemingly fine and even championing women losing our sex based rights to single sex bathrooms, locker rooms, sports, prison, rape crisis centers, and so on? Standing on the wide shoulders and difficult work of the women who came before you used to be celebrated. Now many young women are celebrating men who say they are women as left wing “inclusive”. What gives?
I’m curious what Freya’s stance is on feminism in the modern world, given its association with the decline in young girls mental health (I’m sure she’s heard of the Yale law paper and other research on this subject). Are you convinced by the Louise Perry argument that feminism is fundamentally good, and the problems are an aberration from pathological third or fourth wave branches? Or are you convinced by the Carrie Grass, Matt Walsh argument that a good tree cannot produce corrupt fruit, that feminism was bad from the start, and all the good bits were taken from Christianity (eg. Rape and domestic violence shelters were founded by Christian’s, not feminists, as is commonly believed).
From what I see, a combination of poor viable mates (boys not maturing into competent/masculine men) and women imbibing a false narrative that frames motherhood as unworthy (careers seen as more valuable) or even bad (climate burden, more mouths to feed, expensive etc) and other factors (it is genuinely expensive) means we have a generation of women around the world having less children. What would be your proposal to reverse this trend and genuinely elevate the status of motherhood in the new generation?
female social heirarchies are distinct from mens and more nuanced, but do you believe that social media has essentially created a KPI on female social heirarchy - likes, trends, comments, popularity. Its become more verifiable based of social media metrics that are baselined against celebrities that sit at the pinicale of this KPI? Girls then try to advance themselves up the heirarchy and altering themselves produces actual results (KPIs). As with all KPIs they tend to miss the value of something, which seems to be the individualism / uniqueness / quirks of our girls (also boys) that will likely form the or is a reflection of their true self they will likely become. How can we enable young people to realise their own value, nurture it or at the very least allow them to get some rest bite to reinforce ones own feelings of self and why that has value?
It would be interesting to know what message Freya would like to give to the mothers of these girls and young women - and to future mothers. Many mothers are effectively being parented by their daughters and are often engaged in a very unhealthy form of competition with them. Many have been profoundly damaged by their own relationships with men, but rather than raising girls who can hold their own, who know their worth and can say “no”, these women simply tell girls “that’s how men are” and basically you need to put up with it or you’ll be on your own. They forget that women have always set standards of behaviour - there can be no permissive or commodifying society without women’s agreement and active participation. Fathers are also vital for the raising of healthy girls - why are mothers not recognising this and acting accordingly?
(I am a therapist who has worked with many girls, young women and their mothers. I retrained to do this largely because of my concerns about young people. I am also mother of an adult son and daughter).
As a father of two teenage girls, I wonder if social media has replaced shared cultural rites with individual branding exercises and if young women are paying a psychological price for growing up without a unifying cultural narrative larger than themselves?
Maybe I'm too late, but I'm interested in what Freya's thoughts about how cannabis use among young people (both young women and men) is impacting mental health of young people, especially in their relationships.
Girls have always been conformist but is it now harder than ever to go against the crowd (for example, being a tomboy or just not watching the latest "in" show)?
How much of this is the fault of feminism? We have seen feminism be extremely hateful and aggressive towards men (and boys), but while they're purporting to support women as so-called "female empowerment" many people have pointed out, that feminism will in the end be worst for the women themselves. Is this true?
With online platforms deliberately hindering our attention span and ai making us feel overly knowledgeable,in your opinion is reading books going be extinct with my generation and younger? Ultimately I managed to immerse myself into reading with self agency, so I don’t see how we can increase self agency in others with the coming future
Speaking mostly from the right/conservative here, and with a family member that has fallen for this trap who listens almost exclusively to Candace Owens - there is a growing trend of pseudo (or complete) nihilism that seems to be prevalent among Gen Z, and appears to lead to a growing prominence of worldviews that are conspiratorial in nature (e.g., the Jewish cabal, pedophilic elites and ruling class, etc.) - how do we combat these cancerous ideas and lead people back to realism and away from conspiracy, back to hope instead of nihilism, and towards building a life worthy of praise rather than tearing down “the system”?
Why have so many young women moved far left, seemingly fine and even championing women losing our sex based rights to single sex bathrooms, locker rooms, sports, prison, rape crisis centers, and so on? Standing on the wide shoulders and difficult work of the women who came before you used to be celebrated. Now many young women are celebrating men who say they are women as left wing “inclusive”. What gives?
I’m curious what Freya’s stance is on feminism in the modern world, given its association with the decline in young girls mental health (I’m sure she’s heard of the Yale law paper and other research on this subject). Are you convinced by the Louise Perry argument that feminism is fundamentally good, and the problems are an aberration from pathological third or fourth wave branches? Or are you convinced by the Carrie Grass, Matt Walsh argument that a good tree cannot produce corrupt fruit, that feminism was bad from the start, and all the good bits were taken from Christianity (eg. Rape and domestic violence shelters were founded by Christian’s, not feminists, as is commonly believed).
Nice to see you back on Freya.
From what I see, a combination of poor viable mates (boys not maturing into competent/masculine men) and women imbibing a false narrative that frames motherhood as unworthy (careers seen as more valuable) or even bad (climate burden, more mouths to feed, expensive etc) and other factors (it is genuinely expensive) means we have a generation of women around the world having less children. What would be your proposal to reverse this trend and genuinely elevate the status of motherhood in the new generation?
female social heirarchies are distinct from mens and more nuanced, but do you believe that social media has essentially created a KPI on female social heirarchy - likes, trends, comments, popularity. Its become more verifiable based of social media metrics that are baselined against celebrities that sit at the pinicale of this KPI? Girls then try to advance themselves up the heirarchy and altering themselves produces actual results (KPIs). As with all KPIs they tend to miss the value of something, which seems to be the individualism / uniqueness / quirks of our girls (also boys) that will likely form the or is a reflection of their true self they will likely become. How can we enable young people to realise their own value, nurture it or at the very least allow them to get some rest bite to reinforce ones own feelings of self and why that has value?
It would be interesting to know what message Freya would like to give to the mothers of these girls and young women - and to future mothers. Many mothers are effectively being parented by their daughters and are often engaged in a very unhealthy form of competition with them. Many have been profoundly damaged by their own relationships with men, but rather than raising girls who can hold their own, who know their worth and can say “no”, these women simply tell girls “that’s how men are” and basically you need to put up with it or you’ll be on your own. They forget that women have always set standards of behaviour - there can be no permissive or commodifying society without women’s agreement and active participation. Fathers are also vital for the raising of healthy girls - why are mothers not recognising this and acting accordingly?
(I am a therapist who has worked with many girls, young women and their mothers. I retrained to do this largely because of my concerns about young people. I am also mother of an adult son and daughter).
As a father of two teenage girls, I wonder if social media has replaced shared cultural rites with individual branding exercises and if young women are paying a psychological price for growing up without a unifying cultural narrative larger than themselves?
Maybe I'm too late, but I'm interested in what Freya's thoughts about how cannabis use among young people (both young women and men) is impacting mental health of young people, especially in their relationships.
Girls have always been conformist but is it now harder than ever to go against the crowd (for example, being a tomboy or just not watching the latest "in" show)?
If she had a daughter and she asked her for advice on whether or not to have sex before marriage, what would she say?
How much of this is the fault of feminism? We have seen feminism be extremely hateful and aggressive towards men (and boys), but while they're purporting to support women as so-called "female empowerment" many people have pointed out, that feminism will in the end be worst for the women themselves. Is this true?
Is this an accelerating multigenerational problem, what’s happening with girls, or is this a blip in human history that will eventually get better?
With online platforms deliberately hindering our attention span and ai making us feel overly knowledgeable,in your opinion is reading books going be extinct with my generation and younger? Ultimately I managed to immerse myself into reading with self agency, so I don’t see how we can increase self agency in others with the coming future
Speaking mostly from the right/conservative here, and with a family member that has fallen for this trap who listens almost exclusively to Candace Owens - there is a growing trend of pseudo (or complete) nihilism that seems to be prevalent among Gen Z, and appears to lead to a growing prominence of worldviews that are conspiratorial in nature (e.g., the Jewish cabal, pedophilic elites and ruling class, etc.) - how do we combat these cancerous ideas and lead people back to realism and away from conspiracy, back to hope instead of nihilism, and towards building a life worthy of praise rather than tearing down “the system”?