THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Evie Solheim) - Did Social Media Kill Girlhood?
Despite an interesting thesis, Freya India’s GIRLS®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything falls flat. The post Did Social Media Kill Girlhood? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books Did Social Media Kill Girlhood? Despite an interesting thesis, Freya India’s GIRLS®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything falls flat. (Photo by Richard Baker/In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images) Painters think in brushstrokes. Directors think in scenes. Women under 30 think in Instagram stories. Young women’s travel, clothing, hobbies, and even their romantic relationships are subconsciously selected based on what would look best photographed, filtered, and ironically captioned. Digital life and real life are not in competition; they’ve melded. Social media isn’t a hobby or a distraction for young women; it is their medium of self-creation and, in some instances, self-destruction—and it has ruined…Open