As feminists, we thought that we only have to fight against patriarchy and misogyny but it looks like we also have a long battle to fight against the ‘pick me girls’. It is sad and infuriating that in a day and age where women are fighting for equal rights on behalf of the entire gender, we have some women who want to pick the entire movement apart. A recent example of this is a tweet shared by a woman featuring the female scientists at ISRO who are responsible for the success of Chandrayaan 3’s landing. She asked other women to look up to these scientists because they represent “true feminism”.
This Twitter user is getting trolled on social media for differentiating between the kinds of feminism as if there are any. Many have pointed out that feminism is everything else but not what she is advocating. And rightly so, because it has never been a movement that differentiates between women.
One of them called the Twitter user’s opinion ‘dumb’.
Another Twitter user, surprisingly a man, came forward to clarify that those women who are not as ambitious are not feminists.
One of the users also said that women should stop preaching to other women what feminism is. They also added that what this Twitter was doing is definitely not an empowering move.
Journalist Rituparna Chatterjee went on to write that the women of ISRO did not get here in a day.
One of the users said this woman is insecure and is hurt seeing other women succeed.
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The Twitter user also went ahead to later “clarify” her stand and said that she was calling out the pseudo-feminists and how feminism is a movement that fights for being equal to men.
Fighting against the pick-me girls is like taking two steps back in this lengthy fight. Women should support women and their choices and not try to appease men by saying, “I am not like other girls!”