I think that in itself raises the question of why these girls are not emotionally and mentally equipped to deal with these things
I have things to say about this but I'm short of time at the moment so I'd skip this for now. Hopefully I'd get to that later...
How is it that humans have existed for thousands of years without this epidemic of Pooning Out? Are we to believe that no teenage girl was ever hit on before the mid 2010's?
The answer is simple. Never before teenage girls have been told that if they don't feel like a woman/teenage girl, it means they aren't one.
I said it before here, I didn't feel like a woman either when I was a teen and even a very young adult. What does it actually mean, "didn't feel like a woman"? Basically I had this image of what a woman (or a teenage girl on her way to become a woman) is and/or should be, and I didn't fit this image, I didn't feel this is me, I couldn't connect to it, I didn't have what it takes to be this. This image was heavily, heavily influenced by the media (social media barely existed back then). MTV clips with young women in it, teenage girls and young women on TV shows, advisements with women and teenage girls in it, teen magazines I read; so
a lot of it wasn't even based on actual real-life living and breathing women and teenage girls.
Nevertheless I had never truly doubted I am a woman, because this was just a given. I'm a female, so I am a woman. That's it.
Teenage girls nowadays are being told that if they don't feel like a woman it means they are not one. Their sex isn't a factor.
I believe the image of a "woman" nowadays is even more distorted than it was when I was younger, and it was pretty bad back then too. Now with social media that is full of young women and teenage girls with makeup and fake eyelashes, duck lips and tons of filters, posing in some cute/sexy poses, and with the accessibility of porn... I think a lot of teen girls have an image of some beautiful sexy woman
who men often see as holes to fuck basically when they think of a woman, and they don't feel it's them/don't want to be like that/feel they could never live up to that or fulfill that role. It's just not them, it's not how they really are, it's not what they want to be. They want to be a person, a person that could do anything and be anything, be a more round, complex, comprehensive human being rather then a sex object and pretty face. So they don't "feel like a woman". And since now they are been told that if they don't feel like a woman they aren't one, they are something else... they think they are something else.
that's a short version, I think there are more facets, factors and complexity to it, but the bottom line remines. The separation of sex, a biological fact that is as unchangeable and fundamental as being of the human species is - from "gender", which is some feeling, essence, spirt, soul referring to sex, AND the assertion that "gender" is more important and real than sex, are the reasons to all that pooning and enbying. Before that, teenage girls and women found other ways to cope with the hardships of being female (successfully or not, healthy or not). They didn't have a choice, the option to not be a woman didn't exist. Now it supposedly exists.