Freya India
@freyaindiaa
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It’s a cruel trick of modern life to convince us that everyone cares what we’re doing, all the time; that everyone is deeply invested in how we live and how we identify and how we feel. Seriously believing that is enough to make anyone mentally ill. freyaindia.co.uk/p/you-dont-nee…
The impulse to medicalize everything— boyhood, masculinity, the human experience—is the real sickness. Incredible what happens when you refuse the medical framing and choose to live with the cards God and nature dealt you.
My generation is obsessed with treating every trait as a symptom of a disorder: You’re not shy, you’re autistic; you’re not forgetful, you’ve got ADHD, writes Freya India. thefp.com/p/nobody-has-a…
My generation is obsessed with treating every trait as a symptom of a disorder: You’re not shy, you’re autistic; you’re not forgetful, you’ve got ADHD, writes Freya India. thefp.com/p/nobody-has-a…
Are we trading real connection for a digital illusion? Online communities are often praised as a lifeline for Gen Z: a cure for loneliness in a hyperconnected world. But @freyaindiaa challenges this idea, warning that no online space can truly replace the depth of real, human…
The pieces of us once written into wedding vows, read out in eulogies, remembered with a smile, now live on doctors’ notes and mental health assessments and BetterHelp applications. We are not people anymore. We are products with labels. freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody-has-a…
It's always a pleasure to talk with @jordanbpeterson. We went deep into the mechanisms by which the phone-based childhood brings different consequences for girls and boys -- in developmental trajectories and mental illness: youtube.com/watch?v=AflY1C…
This, by @freyaindiaa, is very good. substack.com/home/post/p-16…
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: freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody-has-a…
Freya India shows how easy access and frequent exposure to hardcore porn shaped her generation, making it harder for girls and boys to ever find intimacy. One of our most powerful posts at After Babel, now reposted on @TheFP thefp.com/p/what-porn-to…
The average age of first exposure to pornography is 12. If a strange man showed a child violent porn, we’d call it abuse. So why do we let algorithms do it every day? In @FreyaIndiaa’s piece, Gen Z is waking up to the predatory algorithm. thefp.com/p/what-porn-to…
"Imagine you meet a teenage girl who starts telling you about her childhood, when she mentions, somewhat casually, that she was shown porn by a strange man. He introduced her to it when she was 9, before she had even held hands with a boy, before she had gotten her first period,…
Honoured to debut in the The Free Press! My generation grew up with unlimited access to hardcore porn. No wonder intimacy is a struggle. @TheFP thefp.com/p/what-porn-to…
People laugh at AI girlfriends and how dystopian that seems but online porn, oh that’s natural, normal, healthy. We forget that dystopia has already arrived. afterbabel.com/p/the-mass-tra…
"for those in Gen Z who didn’t grow up religious we had no words to express how #porn made us feel. We couldn’t talk about morality, about loyalty, couldn’t articulate any sort of spiritual degradation. That’s all reactionary and backward." @freyaindiaa afterbabel.com/p/the-mass-tra…
"For those who didn’t grow up religious, who aren’t from more conservative families, we had no words to express how this made us feel. We couldn’t talk about morality, couldn’t talk about loyalty, couldn’t articulate any sort of spiritual degradation" open.substack.com/pub/jonathanha…
Imagine a teenage girl tells you she was shown porn by a stranger at 9. Week after week, he showed her more, each time more extreme. This is what happens when we hand children a smartphone. But instead of one stranger, it's a billion-dollar industry. afterbabel.com/p/the-mass-tra…
Great essay by @ElizabethGMat on the central problem confronting conservatism today: “the young women who most need to imbibe traditional values are constitutionally unable to do so. They cannot keep emotion in perspective, because they have no perspective. And they are not…
We are thrilled to welcome @freyaindiaa, staff writer at After Babel and author of the influential GIRLS Substack, to our annual summit in October! Join us at For the Good of the Public on October 20-21 in Washington, D.C. Register at ccpubliclife.org/summit today!
This piece by @freyaindiaa in last month's issue of @firstthingsmag is critically important. Yes, we need facts and logical arguments on the right. But to speak to broken young people, we need to reach more deeply into the reality of their experience of the modern world.
If Christians and conservatives care about reaching young women, their mission must be to heal their troubled hearts, to still their racing minds, to mend their broken trust. | @freyaindiaa firstthings.com/the-right-has-…
We are excited to announce the first slate of confirmed speakers for this year's For the Good of the Public summit! Join us October 20-21 in Washington D.C. to hear from these speakers – with more to come! Reserve your tickets for our summit at ccpubliclife.org/summit today!