How Feminism Accidentally Created A Mental Health Crisis | The Deep
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Gen Z women are reporting record levels of depression and anxiety – but why did liberal girls fall first and fastest? In this episode of The Deep, Erika breaks down the data on feminism, therapy culture, social media, and locus of control – and asks whether feminism actually engineered a female mental-health crisis.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro: Feminism has left women more depressed
0:59 - Barbie and Feminism 101: “It’s impossible to be a woman”
3:31 - Shocking mental health statistics
5:58 - Distorted “therapy culture”
9:05 - Social media fuels the fire
12:01 - Fragility vs. resilience
13:02 - Agency and locus of control
14:58 - A spiritual renewal
17:42 - Conclusion: Choosing the counter narrative
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| 0:00.0 | Feminism promised women freedom and happiness. But today, 66% of Gen Z women describe their mental health as poor or terrible, and the majority of teen girls are in therapy. What went wrong? |
| 0:17.1 | 1960s feminism had one central complaint. Being a woman sucked. Betty Friedan lamented our |
| 0:24.5 | comfortable concentration camps. Janice Joplin gave us women is losers. And the redstocking |
| 0:30.7 | revolutionaries manifesto feminist revolution raged against all past ideology, literature, and philosophy, products as they are |
| 0:40.2 | of male supremacist culture. They even suggested women needed to develop a new language to describe |
| 0:46.7 | female victimization. Well, we're still speaking English and watching Jane Austen adaptations. |
| 0:52.8 | And we're still repeating the feminist |
| 0:55.3 | mantra, it's impossible to be a woman. That feeling was re-upped recently by Gloria in Greta |
| 1:03.8 | Gerwig's Barbie. On the surface, the legacy of feminism is Barbie world, the world of girl power. |
| 1:13.5 | Women dominate higher ed, lower ed, |
| 1:20.9 | political parties, law, and medicine. But when we, like Barbie herself, leave Barbie World and enter the real world, we find post-apocalyptic hellscapes, shocking rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide among the very |
| 1:30.8 | women and teens most receptive to that feminist foremother's mantra. It is literally impossible |
| 1:38.4 | to be a woman. It is literally impossible to be a woman. That's the infamous line from America Ferreira's Gloria. |
| 1:47.4 | At a key moment in the film, she sits Barbie down for a little real-world therapy session. |
| 1:53.6 | Gloria informs a tearful awakening Barbie that the system is rigged against all uterus havers. I'm just so tired of watching myself and every |
| 2:04.1 | single other woman tie herself into knots so that people will like us. Gloria personifies a sinister, |
| 2:11.7 | profoundly seductive therapy culture masquerading as consciousness raising. And glorious message? The system is rigged. |
| 2:20.3 | America Ferreira later told the New York Times, we can know things and still need to hear |
| 2:27.3 | them out loud. It can still be cathartic. There are a lot of people who need feminism 101, |
| 2:33.3 | whole generations of girls who are just coming up and who don't have the words for the culture they're being raised in. |
| 2:40.0 | America's analysis of the culture we're raising our girls in, the system is rigged. |
| 2:46.0 | I'm not here to diminish the difficulties facing young girls, but I am here to say that |
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