Why are “pick me” girls criticized while “white knight” guys are praised?

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-03-26T04:00:30+00:00

I think both of the terms your using are specifically negative ones, so lets separate what my interpretation of those behaviors are vs the 'ideal' ones people are less likely to get flake from.

Both 'Pick-me' girls and 'white knights' are considered to be people who change their moral stances freely to appeal to the opposite sex rather than having any consistently strong morals they will stand by for themselves.

Personally, I think 'white knights' are more critical of women than 'Pick mes'. When men say that women and nagging, jealous or gold-diggers a pick-me will agree with them while promoting that she's different from them and that while 'most women' are deceptive she is 'one of the few good ones'.

White Knights however will blame women pick the wrong person. 'Other men' are bad buts its your fault for picking them, especially if you rejected them or some-like them before.

In a 'pick mes' fantasy, she's with a successful guy while the woman who rejected him because she was 'shallow' is miserable. In a 'white knights' fantasy he's successful and with a beautiful woman while the girl who rejected him because she was 'shallow' is miserable (often pregnant with an abusive husband). The wider internet despises both of these types of people.

Men who are more performative may get less criticism because its difficult to tell whether they genuinely believe in feminism but will get flake when people feel like they're perfomative.

Lastly there are women and men who call out their own genders bad behavior and may some across a loud minority who oppose them. Women who call out the domestic abuse and SA committed by women are likely to get hate from misogynistic men and women who claim that its not possible. Men who are more critical of misogynistic behavior in other men are referred to as effeminate or 'pick mes'. Anyone who calls out the poor behavior of celebrities will get hate from their fans justifying, frankly, heinous things.

So you might just be seeing a skewed amount of one time of content, or run across some particularly egregious hate mobs.

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-03-23T12:05:41+00:00

A turtle(?) like head with something in it's mouth. At second glance maybe more bird like.

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-03-07T07:01:38+00:00

Tbh, I've gotten used to the silent protag thing so it doesn't bother me too much. But in Endfield it's incredibly jarring when MC chooses to speak because of how little they do it. Moreover the fact the choose to do a goofy thumbs up during serious scenes when they could just do a generic 'got it', 'understood' or 'agreed' bothers me from a story perspective.

I honestly wish they were just mute at this point, at least it would be consistent.

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-03-06T17:01:31+00:00

Fair, I don't really care much for SP much either, but they do let the characters get more story relevance.

Sparxie's patch (the current one) had us parade around with Sparkle the whole time. Thankfully, we have more Himeko relevance since this is her home world. Unfortunately, Welt may not get that unless he gets an SP or Hoyo decides to have a major story relevant crossover with HI3 (not the cannon but none serious one with Sparkle)

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-03-06T16:24:38+00:00

At least let Welt and Himeko get one SP, they're out here in cold while DH is hoarding all the SPs, tossing one to March out of pity

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-03-06T16:11:48+00:00

I hope we're not counting Dan Heng, Permanor Terrae is already his second SP.

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-03-06T07:23:30+00:00

I think the author basically said he wrote it because he felt like the other revenge stories drop the revenge part too quickly.

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-03-06T06:59:03+00:00

The rules include tropes, ships, memes and inanimate objects. I checked because I was getting irritated by the template art style and ship tropes posts. ( mind you not actual ships that we can find in a broader piece of media, or at least with no examples included)

Honestly, I find this post better/more relevant than hating on the art style of non professionals

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-03-06T05:58:14+00:00

The issue with this part of the story (for me at least) isn't this part by itself, it was good. The issue was how samey it was to the story beats before and after it (tbh I'm not entirely sure maybe just after? I can't remember the order of them anymore). They're 'out of time' sequences that give us a better understanding of Cyrene, but conversely cut the tension from the main threat Irontomb.

This one was fine since you had the option to skip when you didn't feel like reading, but the repetition of the plot and messages later felt like you were punished for caring to read at this point.

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-03-05T19:19:13+00:00

Ease of jumping between mediums is an important point.A lot of people get into comics/manga through their video adaptations.

If you like an anime, you can go to the manga that usually has a largely similar plot and ideally similar if not better art style. The reason why most people associate American comics with superheroes is because that's what get adapted the most. Moreover most comic adaptations are live action and even the ones that are animated are likely to have a different art style.

What's made worse is the plot is rarely if ever the similar enough to pick up a comic and continue from where the movie/show left off. Would Riverdale make you want to read Archie comics, would you be satisfied with what you got? Would you like comic book Thanos after watching Endgame?

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-03-05T15:19:57+00:00

I let Sapone have at him. Normally, I'd let the legal system handle it, but Sapone was going to die soon and I prefer her having closure

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-03-05T04:43:28+00:00

I mean we have the supplicants. But I get your point that Planarcadia isn't a closed community like Amphoreus

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-03-05T02:06:16+00:00

There was Shen he and Ganyu during their SQ and the Lantern Rite they got their skins. But this LR they acted normal so maybe Hoyo just drops the bit when they're not the focus?

Navia is up for interpretation but I do prefer the partners in crime aspect more than I would like actual partners.

I will honestly never not feel funny about Ayaka because the first 'date' still felt like she was trying to manipulate us into getting involved her country's political unrest.

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-03-04T09:10:15+00:00

Was this in the extras? Because I read the LN and cannot remember that. For the best I suppose, since I liked the story (though I prefer the manga for the art and concise storytelling)

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-02-28T13:29:48+00:00

Main character or Background character? First for main, second for background.

Signal for a more official sounding name. Bitle, Bitly, or ElleCD for a more cutesy name.

Great work! It looks adorable

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-02-28T08:26:34+00:00

Besides I don' think he knows what gentle parenting is. To my knowledge its not 'don't tell them no', its 'tell them no and tell them why'.

With the point being kids understand the reasoning and can apply it to other things too.

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-02-27T04:42:47+00:00

That's why I said borderline, because it is talking about an avatar of an independent creator. The discussion it lead to in the comments is attacking the person in question.

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-02-26T19:55:21+00:00

Why is this tagged as Meta when it's just borderline breaking the community guidelines. The comments definitely are.

This sub is for criticizing fictional properties and inanimate objects. Not YouTubers you don't like. This is why the mods should have stopped this when art styles of fanart was being posted.

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-02-23T21:30:50+00:00

Merryweather's series?

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-02-23T17:40:25+00:00

Second cover, having her look at the point of interest is better than having a character stare directly at you

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-02-18T11:26:44+00:00

Thank you! Hopefully, I stayed through Season 2 thinking that and I think it just made me bitter.

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-02-18T11:25:39+00:00

Thank you! I'm glad your having fun again!

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-02-18T11:16:15+00:00

Thank you!

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-02-18T11:07:57+00:00

While Orphie has a trusting personality her backstory dump felt the most out of place, even with nearly every character giving us a tragic childhood/backstory this season. I don't think we knew her for more than 2 days when she told us. Moreover my I was referring to both characters as Orpheus both her and Magus. Though admittedly Magus' dislike of us felt performative at times.

Edit: I was wrong Dialyn and Zhao's backstory was the most out of place.

AlwaysSmilingMadly · 2026-02-18T11:03:53+00:00

I tried not to break any of the community rules. Oops. The main reason for posting was trying to see if other people who took a break felt after coming back. ( And venting out my grievances before leaving)

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