Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2026-04-27
Books mentioned on The Extreme Crisis of Young Women - Freya India - #1090
Freya India is a writer and journalist focused on female mental health and modern culture. What’s happening with modern women?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Game
The Game by Neil Strauss is an investigative memoir and exploration into the secretive underworld of pickup artists and social dynamics.
Discussed“So what guys that did it learned was just how much they had to contort themselves in order to get laid with a woman. And even if it was effective, what they felt was the delta between who they were normally and who they were when they deployed the game by Neil Strauss.”
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a dystopian novel set in a totalitarian society where women are stripped of their autonomy and forced into reproductive servitude.
Critiqued“Handmaid's Tail. Beautiful. What starts off as disappointing through its lack of nuance and depth make contradictory points and statistics that feel cherrypicked in order to back up points the author is desperately trying to make. Quickly descends into conservative pearl clutching before ultimately concluding as a manifesto for girls getting back to family values and baby making that could”
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