pick-me

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pick-me (plural pick-mes)

  1. (slang, derogatory) Synonym of pick-me girl.
    • 2020, Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot‎[1], page 74:
      Yet the “pick me” culture, a phenomenon where some women announce their willingness to adhere to these arbitrary standards, is evident on Twitter and other social media sites.
    • 2024, Drew Afualo, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve‎[2], unnumbered page:
      Or think about the pick-me's claim that she's totally fine with how much her boyfriend salivates over Instagram models or flirts with his coworker, because she's not like other girls who are jealous and insecure.
    • 2024, Katherine Murray, “Female Millennial Rage: The Weaponization of Cottagecore”, in Anastasia Klimchynskaya, Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol, editors, The Literary Taylor Swift: Songwriting and Intertextuality‎[3], page 125:
      While folklore and evermore do celebrate Swift's evolution from the "pick me" days of Fearless, the albums also use cottagecore landscapes and imagery as a vehicle for mourning simpler times.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pick-me.
  2. (slang, derogatory, by extension) A person who acts against the interests of their own (typically marginalized) group in the hope of obtaining majority favour.
    • 2020, Danica Seto, "White People, Please Pick Me", Overachiever Magazine, September 2020 (link):
      Pick-mes are ideal for the role of the token minority friend since they often fall in line with racist beliefs used against their own community.
    • 2020 November 1, Marissa Foster, “Stop being a 'pick me' person to fit in”, in Pepperpot, Georgetown, Guyana, page 20:
      The most disgusting act I've seen from a "pick me" is when they'd bring others down or betray the ones who cared for them all in the name of "being accepted."
    • 2022, Shreya Joshi, "Ghislaine Maxwell and the pathological pick-me syndrome", The Medium (University of Toronto Mississauga, 17 January 2022, page 6:
      A “pick-me” person is desperate for acceptance from a particular group and will do whatever it takes to gain access to certain social circles and remain there.

Descendants

  • → Hijazi Arabic: بكمي (bikmi)
  • → Russian: пи́кми (píkmi)
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