Please explain to me what a pick-me girl is

[Anonymous]

Please don't just list celebs you think fall in that category - I've seen that and it doesn't explain for me. Please tell me the actual characteristics of one?

[Anonymous]

Pick me! I'll tell you!!

Attention seeker

[Anonymous]

It’s a girl who makes a big deal how she’s not like other girls. She’s a guys girl and too cool for girl drama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please don't just list celebs you think fall in that category - I've seen that and it doesn't explain for me. Please tell me the actual characteristics of one?

From what I gather from my youngster, it is a girl that acts differently in front of boys than girls in order to impress the boys or something along those lines.

[Anonymous]

They will do anything to "win" the man, generally putting down other women or saying misogynistic things.

I know you didnt want celeb examples, but in the Carrie Underwood song where she breaks a guys headlights with a baseball bat - shes being a pick me. "She probably orders some fruity drink because she cant shoot whiskey" putting down the woman for being girly, insinuating she (Carrie) is better because she can hang with the dudes and shoot whiskey.

Basically if you have to put down other women to "win" you're probably a pick me.

[Anonymous]

Some other examples from music (I actually like/d a lot of pick me music back in the day haha)

Misery Business
She's got a body like an hourglass, it's ticking like a clock
It's a matter of time before we all run out
When I thought he was mine, she caught him by the mouth
I waited eight long months, she finally set him free
I told him I couldn't lie, he was the only one for me
Two weeks and we had caught on fire
She's got it out for me, but I wear the biggest smile
Whoa, I never meant to brag
But I got him where I want him now
Whoa, it was never my intention to brag
To steal it all away from you now

She "stole" the guy from the hourglass hottie and is bragging about it.

Taylor Swift You Belong With Me is a pick me, Pussycat dolls "doncha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me", Avril Lavigne Sk8er boi and I dont like your girlfriend, Alanis Morisette You Otta Know.

If you read the lyrics you can get a sense of the comparison/putting down that makes someone a pick me.

[Anonymous]

Pick me seems just like r/notlikeothergirls -a subreddit.
I'm gen x and I recall referring to this type of behavior as "cool girl" or "cool girlfriend". She'll hang with the guys, drink beer and watch football. Hell, she's more into the game than the guys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pick me seems just like r/notlikeothergirls -a subreddit.
I'm gen x and I recall referring to this type of behavior as "cool girl" or "cool girlfriend". She'll hang with the guys, drink beer and watch football. Hell, she's more into the game than the guys.

If she’s actually into beer and the game she’s not a pick me. If she’s pretending to like watching football to impress a man she is a pick me.

[Anonymous]

someone who tried to get attention, in a non-authentic way. Like wearing a caps shirt to school, when she knows nothing about hockey because the boy she likes also wears a caps shirt.

[Anonymous]

I'd like to thank PP for reminding me to pull up the video of You Belong to Me.

-- Gen X, not a swift fan particularly

[Anonymous]

I am so grateful for the term pick-me girl. Many years ago I had a friend who drove me absolutely up the wall and I just grew more and more resentful of her over time but it was so hard to pin down exactly what she was doing that was bothering me.

It was this. The reason it was hard to pick up on was because I was actually in a serious relationship at the time (with my now husband) and was not in competition with her for me. But she'd constantly use me as her foil to try and get men interested in her, which amounted to her frequently drawing comparisons with me in which she would "win" the comparison. And she did it with everyone -- men we worked with, guy friends, men at parties, even my boyfriend (which she would cast as her conspiratorially "teasing" me with him, and which thankfully he did not participate in). She even sometimes did it with women from whom she wanted more attention -- our director at work, some of the more popular women in our circle.

I feel like now if this happened, I'd be like "you're being a pick-me, stop. I don't exist to make you look good." But we didn't have this vocabulary for it then, and when I tried to explain the problem, she'd accuse me of being jealous. But I wasn't. I just didn't want to be her permanent example of someone she was better than.

So yeah, a pick me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pick me seems just like r/notlikeothergirls -a subreddit.
I'm gen x and I recall referring to this type of behavior as "cool girl" or "cool girlfriend". She'll hang with the guys, drink beer and watch football. Hell, she's more into the game than the guys.

Noooooo. Pick me girls are not seen as ‘cool.’ They try to put themselves at the center of attention and then whine about it. They’re mostly seen as an annoyance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They will do anything to "win" the man, generally putting down other women or saying misogynistic things.

I know you didnt want celeb examples, but in the Carrie Underwood song where she breaks a guys headlights with a baseball bat - shes being a pick me. "She probably orders some fruity drink because she cant shoot whiskey" putting down the woman for being girly, insinuating she (Carrie) is better because she can hang with the dudes and shoot whiskey.

Basically if you have to put down other women to "win" you're probably a pick me.

This is the heart of it. It can be explicit or it can be gratuitously implicit (i.e., the heavily implied "see howmuch more appealing I am than them").

It's the framing of "pick me OVER THEM."

[Anonymous]

Not to be meta, but, if we are criticizing how other girls and women behave, are we any better than them?

[Anonymous]

DS says they are girls that dress overly sexual to get the attention of boys. Try too hard to be the one a guy would want. For this generation, a complete turnoff. No one wants to be dating a pick me girl.