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s05e105 | The Gauntlet of Girlhood, with Lisa Marchiano & Eliza Mondegreen

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The Social Constructed Illusion of Demisexuality

Benjamin: Why is the mental health field so susceptible to psychiatric fads and i think it's because most of most psychiatric symptoms are subjective by patient report or maybe you know observed but they can't. Eliza: I'm kind of imagining that with the internet and these young girls and less in less society develops tools for them to regulate like a like some sort of language  that regulates this kind of out of control spiraling. Benjamin: We're going to be tricked into thinking about these things in very concrete terms and then we're all kinds of races and there's all kinds of things that have been fed into this like the medical model not that i think that's all wrong.

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