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Why “Pick Me” Politics Are Thriving In The Modern Dating Scene: From “City Girls” To The Age-Old “Wifey” Types

Have you ever felt like you needed to “sanitise” or dim your personality traits for that special someone? Those tactics have been long described as “pick me” symptoms and they appear to be trending.

Viral videos highlight the apparent need of many straight women to be validated and ultimately “picked” by men while belittling and antagonising other women. Following a Twitter trend back in 2018, #TweetLikeAPickMe, TikTok has now revived it and given a stage to satirising “pick me” women.