Pickmes come in all forms. Most of them are just naive, harmless ladies doing what society has told them they need to do to attract a man. Generally, these women should be offered help and understanding. But there’s another, more insidious sort of Pickme that must be avoided at all costs.

Enter: The Pathological Pickme

This woman is not your friend - she can’t be. Because every time a dick enters her line of sight, she has to prove she’s the most desirable and high-value woman in the room by any means necessary. She’ll do anything to win his approval, and assert herself as better than her “competition” (read: you.)

She doesn’t raise other women up. In fact, she won’t think twice about tearing you down if it gives her the slightest amount of male validation. The Pathological Pickme is the “friend” that comes crying to you for comfort when some crusty loser gives her an STD, then turns around to call you a whore to any man who will listen before she’s even picked up her antibiotics. (This is a real thing a girl I was friends with in college did to me.)

She can’t be happy for you under any circumstances, because she can’t even be happy for herself. You will always come second to her need for constant approval and validation.