They Sold You A Lie: How Women Became Products | Freya India | FREYA.

Freya Leach is joined by author and cultural commentator Freya India to discuss how girlhood and identity are shaped by a society that is driven to commodify them. Freya India argues that social media has reduced young women to products — optimising their appearance, emotions, and relationships for an audience rather than recognising them as human beings. She warns that therapy culture has supplanted genuine connection with pathology and perfectionism, and urges parents to reclaim the space that influencers and corporations have filled before the next generation is shaped entirely by platforms with no stake in their flourishing. Freya India is a writer whose work addresses the contradictions of growing up online, with a focus on identity, femininity, and cultural change. She is the author of Girls: Gen Zed and the Commodification of Everything, and writes regularly for her substack GIRLS, which has over 50,000 subscribers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00 – Introduction 1:30 – Growing up in a digital dystopia 3:43 – How algorithms changed childhood 5:10 – The commodification of young women 8:25 – The rise of "therapy culture" 11:26 – Why modern women delay commitment 18:52 – The decline of family and community 22:44 – Influencers as the new moral arbiters 31:07 – Impact of pornography on girls 36:44 – Advice for the next generation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John believes proper, robust dialogue is necessary if we are to maintain our social strength and cohesion. As he puts it; "You cannot get good public policy out of a bad public debate." If you value this discussion and want to see more like it, make sure you subscribe to the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtnYSEGViOnb7k8ezUaWUww?sub_confirmation=1 And stay right up to date with all the conversations by subscribing to the newsletter here: https://johnanderson.net.au/contact/ Follow Freya Leach: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freya.leach X (Twitter): https://x.com/freyathinks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freya.leach.3 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/freya-leach-8466281a6/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@freyaleach Follow Freya India: X (Twitter): https://x.com/freyaindiaa Substack: https://www.freyaindia.co.uk/ Follow John on X: https://x.com/JohnAndersonAC Follow John on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnandersonac Follow John on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnandersonac/ Support the channel: https://johnanderson.net.au/support/ Website: https://johnanderson.net.au/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Qh2fEsC7nEVxXxQzwTv54