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Women today are not being liberated. They are being turned into commodities. Their insecurities are being weaponized, their dopamine systems are being hijacked, and the loudest voices telling them this is freedom are the ones profiting from their destruction.
Adam Lane Smith, The Attachment Specialist, sits down with Freya India, author of Girls and one of the most important young voices writing about what is actually happening to women today, to break down exactly how modern culture is pulling women apart from themselves, from men, and from the possibility of real connection. This is not a culture war video. It is an attachment science and cultural psychology breakdown of why young women have never felt more anxious, more alone, or more convinced the problem is them.
What you will learn in this video:
1- Why young women are not lonelier than ever but have so many simulations of connection they never get lonely enough to do something about it 2- Why social media did not create new insecurities in girls but amplified the existing ones at a scale no previous generation ever faced 3- Why one piece of pornography produces 21 times the dopamine of a real sexual experience and what that is doing to men and to the women who love them 4- Why most men have not had a hug since the age of ten and what that loneliness is producing in their relationships 5- Why avoidant attachment in women is rising and why it is almost always a defense mechanism not a personality 6- Why young women are having sex on the first date because they believe if they do not someone else will 7- Why women's moral instincts are being reframed as insecurity and what they lose when they stop trusting them 8- Why the therapy content telling women to have no emotions is describing the opposite of secure attachment 9- What it actually looks like to step off social media and see clearly for the first time 10- Why young women are not the problem and what actually is
If you have a daughter, a niece, a sister, or a young woman in your life who has convinced herself the problem is her, this conversation will give you language for what you have both been watching happen.
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Freya India is a contributing writer at The Free Press. She is also author of the new book, GIRLS®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything.
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