Back in the 1920s they successfully treated anorexia with insulin, recognizing that it was a metabolic disorder and not a psychological one. But then along came the psychologists and they needed a reason to exist.
I’d wager that 95%+ of these problems are to do with the absolute shit diet that is consumed in the West, full of sugar, glyphosate/pesticides/chemicals, seed oils, fake coloring, and fake genetically modified crap, for a short list. Throw in some SSRIs and ADHD drugs from the age of six, and you can end civilization faster than you can say Hannibal.
Really well done, original, beautifully written and a window into a reality I had no idea about. I have a 32 year old daughter caught in a career trap. Hopefully she will get out of it before it's too late. I also have a 34 year old son I tried to steer away from porn at age 13. That didn't go too well either, but at least he married and has had one kid, so far. Parents need to refuse their kids all screens. But some 2-3 year-olds among extended family are already addicted. Oh well. It's all coming down soon, in chaos and madness. Best wishes.. from a new Zinnia subscriber.
“Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you.”
How women might “come to terms” with their oft frustrated carnal desires for beauty and power is through the worship of something higher. Something that won’t destroy them, and instead, will feed their souls. The same goes for men, of course.
My daughter is 24 and a 6'2" broad-shouldered professional athlete, who thank God, has a wicked sense of humor about her continuing singlehood -- "I'll die alone!" she says.
Meanwhile, my 26-year-old son can't seem to find any women who aren't terrified of real-life interactions with men.
All three of my kids grew up without TV in the house or cell phones until high school, and now they're like unicorns. Capable, kind, socially adept... and lonely.
What the hell is going to happen to this generation, and the one following it??
More face to face interaction with boys would go a way in reducing this Zoomer girl anxiety. All of these perceptions are more accurately notions - within the head. Believe it or not Zoomer girl, men generally aren’t focused on your every perceived “flaw”. It’s been a while but from memory boobs were boobs when I was a young man - big, small, misshapen- all good ... cos boobs! I don’t imagine that has changed overly. It’s a scary time for both sexes - in hindsight you always wish you could have told your younger self not to worry so damn much about what the rest of the world thinks about you and to just concentrate on becoming a “good” person, defined by your own inner compass. This cliché obviously is unhelpful to those going through it. One can’t help but wonder if less time online isn’t at least a partial salve? Great article.
for a while now it has dawned on me the the new transgender movement is always a reaction to the feminine. in MtF its always an overt embrace of the feminine (the shoes, the dresses, the makeup) whereas the FtM is always a rejection of the feminine (baggy clothes, short hair, top surgery).
nowhere in this movement represents the masculine at all...hence the constant accusations of misogyny...
Thank you for the article. I have a (very) young daughter, so I'm trying to stock up on as many insights into young women's minds as I can. My takeaways from this are: 1) I need to get my wife to read it and share her thoughts, and 2) no social media for the kids for as long as I can manage (which was already on the to-do list). Any other insights are welcome, and I'm subscribed for more!
> Why are young women today so deranged? Because no one is honest with them and they cannot be honest with themselves. Parents lie to you, teachers lie to you, friends lie to you, everyone lies to you.
The Boomers were notoriously bad at giving the necessary "girl to girl talk" and "man to man talk", delegating it to a school that taught largely nonsense. It used to be a mom and other older authority figures would take their daughter out and give them a frank talk that even their husband would not be privy to, and that is a good thing. It's gotten even worse will Millennial/GenX parants. Instead, it's now done through neurotic teachers, their equally confused teen friends, and the sewer of social media.
I used to wonder why women were the way they were until I realized they were biologically programmed to desire and tame a human being that are bigger, stronger, and incredibly dangerous. It's not something you walk into alone without a lot of wisdom from experienced women.
As I read this, my first thought was, wow, so much has changed since I was a teenage girl.
My second thought was, wow, nothing has changed since I was a teenage girl.
Your raw honesty is appreciated, Zinnia. As a grey-haired 50-something year old who has “been there and done that,” here’s what I wish someone had told me a few decades ago:
1. Don’t worry about wanting to be pretty and attractive to boys. Almost all girls have aspired to this, since time immemorial. It gets overwhelming only because this completely normal urge has been monetized. Plus, social media amplifies all the regular awkwardness that comes along with figuring out how to manage the “I want to be wanted” urge. Practise moderation in all things and you’ll be fine.
2. Don’t get drawn into psycho dramas. Just because a guy notices you doesn’t mean that rape is the next item on the menu. That’s just feminist clap-trap.
3. Resist narcissism. Take an interest in the world and people around you, including your male peers. Sometimes the best way to overcome your own problems is to recognize those of others.
4. Don’t fall into the victimhood trap. It’s a total waste of your time and energy.
5. Do enjoy being a girl and a woman every day of your life. Feel good in your own skin. It’s the best revenge to take on any motherfuckers out there, male or female. And the truly good guys and men will inevitably be attracted to you.
You’re off to a good start! Good luck with your blog.
The use of social media is a trap specifically unleashed on women to completely wreck their lives. Someone is always prettier, has more fun and more security than she does. Being basic human being the girls simply cannot stand it and many lash out. No telling how many lives are completely ruined with just a few clicks.
Thank you for introducing Zinnia to your audience. I subscribed. I have a 12 year old grand daughter. I need to know what is going on contemporaneously, and Zinnia seems attune to the times.
The downside of ever less modest clothing and too easy to access porn is that wives lose a beauty advantage over other women.
With that said, even in Victorian times women were mutilating themselves for beauty purposes: corsets, toxic cosmetics, belladonna... There were reasons women used to faint a lot.
Great topic to explore. As parents of 4 girls (2 still in high school), we could see the storm coming. Quite a few commenters have stressed the importance of NO screens. Yes, absolutely. But what takes their place?? We raised our girls with: Grimms Fairy Stories (the original, not Disney), Bible stories, Greek and Norse legends. Ie, archetypal imprinting through story; those stories have endured, so they speak some pretty essential truths about men and women, and life in general. Homeschooling up to high school age (big piece of work), real food (raw milk, garden veges, etc), lots of outdoors (hiking, hunting), and finding similar families so they had friends. Seems to have worked so far.
Here I must interject that said war erupted not in 2010 or 2020, but in the period between 1850-1920.
With the rise of (then) upper-class liberal feminism, scientism, the engineer hero-archetype coming into its own, futurism and rationalism, sex as an organic and intrinsical part of you instead was made into an external /thing/, to be analysed, scrutinised, and vivisected.
Thereby making it artificial, unreal and unnatural.
Witness the rise of transsexualism in the Weimar Republic, the first surgeries. The "playing with gender roles" as we would say today. The hate spewed against the organic and natural - the family - from prominent liberal and feminist and marxist writers of the time.
All made smooth and appetising by the language of Freudian psychology, a faux science if ever there was one - even modern day gender studies apply more of the principle of science than did Freud ever attempt.
The ideal for the british and french and american bourgeoise upper (middle) class woman being the androgyne: eminently fuckable, but without the fear of pregnancy, of motherhood, or any "women's problems". And the men of their class responded in kind - look at the photos Oscar Wilde and his homophile cronies took of underaged boys dolled up as girls (and of themselves too, for that matter.
Fascism, the wars and the Cold War kept a lid on the worst of it, because war makes men and women strong (or dead), but with the End of History triumphantly declared in 1990 with the Fall of Communism the path chosen was one of weakness:
No one was to be The Enemy. No one, no matter what group you chose to point at. No matter their ideas, -isms and faiths. No, capitalist business-monkeys would make Them into Us (or rather: into US).
We now live the ideology of the elite.
I, being a reactionary atavism, say this: know the man by his choice of enemy. Men choosing women as enemies aren't men at all; they are neuters, castrati, eunuchs - by their own proud choice, apparently.
To me, they are lower than the nose-ringed Michelin man flab-bedecked woman-hating feminazis.
Back in the 1920s they successfully treated anorexia with insulin, recognizing that it was a metabolic disorder and not a psychological one. But then along came the psychologists and they needed a reason to exist.
I’d wager that 95%+ of these problems are to do with the absolute shit diet that is consumed in the West, full of sugar, glyphosate/pesticides/chemicals, seed oils, fake coloring, and fake genetically modified crap, for a short list. Throw in some SSRIs and ADHD drugs from the age of six, and you can end civilization faster than you can say Hannibal.
Really well done, original, beautifully written and a window into a reality I had no idea about. I have a 32 year old daughter caught in a career trap. Hopefully she will get out of it before it's too late. I also have a 34 year old son I tried to steer away from porn at age 13. That didn't go too well either, but at least he married and has had one kid, so far. Parents need to refuse their kids all screens. But some 2-3 year-olds among extended family are already addicted. Oh well. It's all coming down soon, in chaos and madness. Best wishes.. from a new Zinnia subscriber.
I’m reminded of a David Foster Wallace quote:
“Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you.”
How women might “come to terms” with their oft frustrated carnal desires for beauty and power is through the worship of something higher. Something that won’t destroy them, and instead, will feed their souls. The same goes for men, of course.
So well-written and highly affecting, zinnia!
My daughter is 24 and a 6'2" broad-shouldered professional athlete, who thank God, has a wicked sense of humor about her continuing singlehood -- "I'll die alone!" she says.
Meanwhile, my 26-year-old son can't seem to find any women who aren't terrified of real-life interactions with men.
All three of my kids grew up without TV in the house or cell phones until high school, and now they're like unicorns. Capable, kind, socially adept... and lonely.
What the hell is going to happen to this generation, and the one following it??
More face to face interaction with boys would go a way in reducing this Zoomer girl anxiety. All of these perceptions are more accurately notions - within the head. Believe it or not Zoomer girl, men generally aren’t focused on your every perceived “flaw”. It’s been a while but from memory boobs were boobs when I was a young man - big, small, misshapen- all good ... cos boobs! I don’t imagine that has changed overly. It’s a scary time for both sexes - in hindsight you always wish you could have told your younger self not to worry so damn much about what the rest of the world thinks about you and to just concentrate on becoming a “good” person, defined by your own inner compass. This cliché obviously is unhelpful to those going through it. One can’t help but wonder if less time online isn’t at least a partial salve? Great article.
for a while now it has dawned on me the the new transgender movement is always a reaction to the feminine. in MtF its always an overt embrace of the feminine (the shoes, the dresses, the makeup) whereas the FtM is always a rejection of the feminine (baggy clothes, short hair, top surgery).
nowhere in this movement represents the masculine at all...hence the constant accusations of misogyny...
Thank you for the article. I have a (very) young daughter, so I'm trying to stock up on as many insights into young women's minds as I can. My takeaways from this are: 1) I need to get my wife to read it and share her thoughts, and 2) no social media for the kids for as long as I can manage (which was already on the to-do list). Any other insights are welcome, and I'm subscribed for more!
> Why are young women today so deranged? Because no one is honest with them and they cannot be honest with themselves. Parents lie to you, teachers lie to you, friends lie to you, everyone lies to you.
The Boomers were notoriously bad at giving the necessary "girl to girl talk" and "man to man talk", delegating it to a school that taught largely nonsense. It used to be a mom and other older authority figures would take their daughter out and give them a frank talk that even their husband would not be privy to, and that is a good thing. It's gotten even worse will Millennial/GenX parants. Instead, it's now done through neurotic teachers, their equally confused teen friends, and the sewer of social media.
I used to wonder why women were the way they were until I realized they were biologically programmed to desire and tame a human being that are bigger, stronger, and incredibly dangerous. It's not something you walk into alone without a lot of wisdom from experienced women.
As I read this, my first thought was, wow, so much has changed since I was a teenage girl.
My second thought was, wow, nothing has changed since I was a teenage girl.
Your raw honesty is appreciated, Zinnia. As a grey-haired 50-something year old who has “been there and done that,” here’s what I wish someone had told me a few decades ago:
1. Don’t worry about wanting to be pretty and attractive to boys. Almost all girls have aspired to this, since time immemorial. It gets overwhelming only because this completely normal urge has been monetized. Plus, social media amplifies all the regular awkwardness that comes along with figuring out how to manage the “I want to be wanted” urge. Practise moderation in all things and you’ll be fine.
2. Don’t get drawn into psycho dramas. Just because a guy notices you doesn’t mean that rape is the next item on the menu. That’s just feminist clap-trap.
3. Resist narcissism. Take an interest in the world and people around you, including your male peers. Sometimes the best way to overcome your own problems is to recognize those of others.
4. Don’t fall into the victimhood trap. It’s a total waste of your time and energy.
5. Do enjoy being a girl and a woman every day of your life. Feel good in your own skin. It’s the best revenge to take on any motherfuckers out there, male or female. And the truly good guys and men will inevitably be attracted to you.
You’re off to a good start! Good luck with your blog.
The use of social media is a trap specifically unleashed on women to completely wreck their lives. Someone is always prettier, has more fun and more security than she does. Being basic human being the girls simply cannot stand it and many lash out. No telling how many lives are completely ruined with just a few clicks.
Thank you for introducing Zinnia to your audience. I subscribed. I have a 12 year old grand daughter. I need to know what is going on contemporaneously, and Zinnia seems attune to the times.
The downside of ever less modest clothing and too easy to access porn is that wives lose a beauty advantage over other women.
With that said, even in Victorian times women were mutilating themselves for beauty purposes: corsets, toxic cosmetics, belladonna... There were reasons women used to faint a lot.
Great topic to explore. As parents of 4 girls (2 still in high school), we could see the storm coming. Quite a few commenters have stressed the importance of NO screens. Yes, absolutely. But what takes their place?? We raised our girls with: Grimms Fairy Stories (the original, not Disney), Bible stories, Greek and Norse legends. Ie, archetypal imprinting through story; those stories have endured, so they speak some pretty essential truths about men and women, and life in general. Homeschooling up to high school age (big piece of work), real food (raw milk, garden veges, etc), lots of outdoors (hiking, hunting), and finding similar families so they had friends. Seems to have worked so far.
"War between the sexes erupts."
Here I must interject that said war erupted not in 2010 or 2020, but in the period between 1850-1920.
With the rise of (then) upper-class liberal feminism, scientism, the engineer hero-archetype coming into its own, futurism and rationalism, sex as an organic and intrinsical part of you instead was made into an external /thing/, to be analysed, scrutinised, and vivisected.
Thereby making it artificial, unreal and unnatural.
Witness the rise of transsexualism in the Weimar Republic, the first surgeries. The "playing with gender roles" as we would say today. The hate spewed against the organic and natural - the family - from prominent liberal and feminist and marxist writers of the time.
All made smooth and appetising by the language of Freudian psychology, a faux science if ever there was one - even modern day gender studies apply more of the principle of science than did Freud ever attempt.
The ideal for the british and french and american bourgeoise upper (middle) class woman being the androgyne: eminently fuckable, but without the fear of pregnancy, of motherhood, or any "women's problems". And the men of their class responded in kind - look at the photos Oscar Wilde and his homophile cronies took of underaged boys dolled up as girls (and of themselves too, for that matter.
Fascism, the wars and the Cold War kept a lid on the worst of it, because war makes men and women strong (or dead), but with the End of History triumphantly declared in 1990 with the Fall of Communism the path chosen was one of weakness:
No one was to be The Enemy. No one, no matter what group you chose to point at. No matter their ideas, -isms and faiths. No, capitalist business-monkeys would make Them into Us (or rather: into US).
We now live the ideology of the elite.
I, being a reactionary atavism, say this: know the man by his choice of enemy. Men choosing women as enemies aren't men at all; they are neuters, castrati, eunuchs - by their own proud choice, apparently.
To me, they are lower than the nose-ringed Michelin man flab-bedecked woman-hating feminazis.
I’ve got three grown daughters, six granddaughters, and a great granddaughter... Now I finally have something wise to say to them!
Thanks for a great article.
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