I really, really need to tell people to tune this noise out and live lives for themselves because

that's finally where a place of peace that I've come to and I've worked really hard for and people

are trying to take that piece away from me.

There are no Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. If you don't get married and have kids, you're going to wind up old, sad, and alone, surrounded by nothing but cats.

It sounds like an attitude right out of the 1950s, right?

But lately, I've noticed an uptick in social media content, pretty much telling young women that if you're not on your way to marriage and parenthood in your 20s, you're doing life wrong and you're going to regret it.

Now, not only is this attitude completely heteronormative, but it's incredibly limiting in so many other ways, too.

The truth is, people live all kinds of dynamic, full, interesting lives with partners, without partners, between partners,

with multiple partners, with kids, without kids.

And when the host of the Pretty Much Done podcast, Julia Mazur, took to TikTok to share a wholesome recap of her weekend as a single woman without kids,

right-wing extremists viciously attacked her online for it. But Julia is not living her

life for the Matt Walsh's of the world. She's living her life for her. So my name is Julia

Mazur. I am the host of Pretty Much Done podcast. So first of all, I really have to start with

just you. You know, you went through something

that I thought was pretty intense. How are you doing? How have you been taking care of yourself

in this time of intensity online? Yeah, definitely a unique experience, never experienced anything

like it. I think the one thing that I would say that it flashed for me is being

bullied in like elementary and middle school for my weight. So it definitely brought up

feelings of that bullying. I didn't know that we still do that at 30, but apparently we do.

I'm doing well, all things considered. I feel really lucky that the past three years for me have been,

like, years of, you know, working on myself worth in therapy and figuring out who I am.

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