Unhappiness In Girls Is Rising, But It Isn't Inevitable - We Can Change It

When I was a teenager , one of my favourite films was 1989's Heathers. It wasn’t just Christian Slater's bad-boy-in-black act, but Winona Ryder captured brilliantly the utter tyranny with which teenage girls are treated.

replacing 1980s social conservatism as the control mechanism of choice. Last week the Wall Street Journal revealed that Instagram had sat on a study revealing how toxic their platform is for teenage girls. It revealed that a third of teen girls who felt bad about their bodies felt worse after using Instagram.

But what can we do about it? Can you legislate for happiness? Or are teenage girls doomed to anxiety?’s leadership platform in which he said he would make it as high a priority of economic growth. We would start with requiring the Office for National Statistics to monitor health and happiness by law.

Alison_McGovern Britain is predominately white, what about us black minority and 'other'? The black community is always the last to benefit from any advantages, how do you propose to change this if the British society and the British institutions refuse to recognise or acknowledge racism?

Alison_McGovern Hi Alison apologies for sounding so pessimistic but how do you propose to eliminate so called mental health and depression in girls forever and all over the world? Or am I pushing it a bit too far in assuming that ALL LIVES MATTER AND ALL OVER THE WORLD.

Alison_McGovern Aside from being a great article, what a nostalgia rush seeing you three back in the day!

Alison_McGovern This is so on point Alison_McGovern and yes, there was a kind of liberation being a grunge teenager in checked shirts and jeans, drinking bottled beer with very few cameras around 🤫

charlotte2153 Alison_McGovern Try being transgender. Puts these feelings on steroids... Religion has a lot to answer for re. the screaming 'YOU MUST FIT IN!!!' part, which adds to the stress of peer and societal pressure.

Alison_McGovern Perhaps UKLabour could start by looking at the massive jump in teenage girls ID’ing as trans and what the root causes of that might be. Eg, experiences of male violence, feeling of disconnect with heavily gendered stereotypes aimed at women from infancy...

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