EP 247: Why Are Gen Z Girls Miserable? Freya India Explains
06 May 2026

EP 247: Why Are Gen Z Girls Miserable? Freya India Explains

Lean Out with Tara Henley

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We know that young women are increasingly unhappy — with high rates of depression and anxiety — and our guest on the program this week says there’s good reason for that. In her new book, she argues that girlhood has dramatically changed in the Internet era and that young women have been transformed from people into products.

Freya India is a British writer and commentator, and a staff writer at Jonathan Haidt’s newsletter After Babel. Her new book is GIRLS: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything

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