30 Women Who Tried So Hard To Prove That They’re Unique That They Just Embarrassed Themselves (New Pics)
Girl power is amazing! There’s nothing that women can’t accomplish when they band together to build each other up, and the bond of sisterhood can be incredibly powerful. But unfortunately, thanks to pesky internalized misogyny, some women out there need a little reminder that we should all be on the same team.
Below, you’ll find some of the cringiest posts from the Not Like The Other Girls subreddit. This group calls out "pick me girls" who have decided to put other women down in an attempt to prove how unique and special they are. Enjoy scrolling through these photos that might give you secondhand embarrassment, and be sure to upvote the ones that remind you to support other women!
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Definitely Not Like Other Girls
Woman Posts Cute Video Of Husband Helping Her Get Around Hours After Giving Birth
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“She’s not like other girls!” We’re all familiar with this phrase that became an internet phenomenon in the early 2010s. Girls who love eating pizza, who drink beer but never gain weight, girls who look like models without wearing makeup and girls who are just “one of the boys” because women never want to be friends with them.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with being unique, and we all have special quirks that will make us stand out. But the idea of claiming that you’re “not like other girls” doesn’t just celebrate one person’s uniqueness, it also implies that all other women are a monolith. And it perpetuates the idea that interesting women who may not like stereotypically feminine things are rare.
Why Is It Always Sourdough And Dresses?
Worst I Have Ever Seen
She preaches shes better than women getting degrees and not having children because by being a stay at home mom on her farm with her 4 kids and pregnant at 23 years old is "going against the grain" as if thats not what women were forced into for thousands of years because of the patriarchy and societal expectations of women .. they're not vaccinated and "unschooled" (?) and now shes into "free birthing" which is an extremely dangerous way to give birth (no check ups, no prenatal care, no birthing guide, no meds, no nothing..) she is seriously psychologically f*cked up for thinking this is the best way to care for your family. And as a woman who's getting her masters and doesn't want kids, f*ck you I am better than you. Read a f*cking book.
Obviously, women didn't like being slaves trapped in the house. If you want to play frontier-mom, go for it. But women are just like men, we all have different talents and skills. I can rebuild an engine and code. I prefer to be a member of the 21st century not the 6th.
Surprised How Many Women Replied To This
My issue isn’t with women who want to stay home, it’s the way he speaks to his partner and all these women are acting like they would be fine being spoke to like that
The Not Like The Other Girls subreddit has been around for years now, and it has never had a shortage of content. The community has 944k members, and it’s one of the largest subreddits on the platform. But just like everything else, it has changed a bit over time. A few years ago, the posts may have been more focused on girls who want everyone to know that they don’t wear makeup, don’t like “girly” things and don’t ever plan on getting married.
Today, however, there seems to be an influx of women posting online about how they’re not like other girls because they’re not feminists. Trad wives are becoming increasingly popular online, and today, lots of “pick me” girls seem to be conservative, anti-abortion and really into drinking raw milk for some reason.
Im Speechless
I’m Not Like Other Girls I Make Bone Broth
Love When This Like This Show Up On My Insta
Regardless of what makes a woman believe that she’s not like the rest of us, it’s sad to see girls who want to separate themselves from other women. The women that I know are strong, brilliant, brave, creative, intelligent, hilarious and fascinating. I would love to be like them! But sadly, many of us have been taught from a young age that we should be in competition with other women and should compare ourselves to other girls, so unless we unlearn that toxic idea, it can be easy to fall into a pattern of trying to prove that we’re better than other women.
"She Was Not Like Other Girls"
First Post Here, I Just Hate Book Shaming In General
Friend Of A Friend Made This Post. Ick Ick Ick All Around
Most women,and some married women like myself, (32 years) still dress up. We dress for ourselves and our men. Grow up! Hoe!
Recently, the “not like other girls” women have also been labeled “pick me girls.” But they’re essentially the same archetype, women who go out of their way to separate themselves from other girls and gain male approval. But according to life coach Bayu Prihandito, we should approach this topic with empathy.
“People, especially young women as they continue to grow up, have to navigate a society filled with mixed messages about their worth, identity, and the roles they are expected to play,” Prihandito told CNN. “And you have social media, the usual suspect, amplifying these messages and creating an environment where external validation is not just sought after but often seems necessary.”
Moms Are More Important
On A Facebook Group For "Boys Only"
Dude, even I don’t wear dresses & skirts but that’s not my entire personality trait and I don’t feel like I’m not a girl because of that. You’re not special for doing something that is not even uncommon
I Hold A Ps4 Controller, I’m A Real Gamer Girl™️
Internalized misogyny is a powerful and insidious thing that women need to be aware of to be able to break. Society tells us that women are one-dimensional beings who should love the color pink, taking care of the home, raising children and being submissive. And while there’s absolutely nothing wrong with any of those things if you genuinely want and enjoy them, the problem arises when girls are told that if they’re not like that, they must be super special and unique and quirky.
Woman
Be careful what you wish for. "Remember that nut-and-a-half I used to date 10 years ago? Wonder if some unfortunate soul ended up being stuck with her..." is hardly something to boast about.
She’s Not Like The Other Girls
Obvious Mental Problem Diagnosed Based On Liking LED Zeppelin
It’s not these women’s fault that they’ve been sold the idea that most girls fit into a cookie-cutter mold. They did not come up with this idea themselves. However, in this day and age, we should not be perpetuating the belief that some women are better than others or that being “unique” makes you more valuable or attractive. Sadly, the media has done a great job at convincing men and women that girls who eat pizza or drink beer or actually like to spend all day in the kitchen are incredibly rare.
I’m Not A Regular Mom, I Just Enable My Husband
There is literally nothing that makes me hotter than women who endorse allowing your partner/spouse to get a total free pass from parenting, helping around the house, or having to do anything but relax because they bring home a paycheck.
Especially because so many women get stuck in sh*tty abusive relationships (physically, emotionally, financially, etc) and are made to think it’s the “norm” or “natural order.”
Found On Tiktok
No, It's Embarrassing To Put Down Other Women At A Party
Ri-iiight... That's why you are standing alone by the door without a single person in sight. Whatever makes you feel better I suppose.
The manic pixie dream girl is a prime example of a “not like the other girls” woman that often appears in TV shows and films. This could be Alaska in Looking for Alaska, Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim v. The World, Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Summer in 500 Days of Summer and countless other female characters. This archetype is often portrayed through the male gaze and only there to enhance the male protagonist’s life or story. They usually don’t have much of a plot or development of their own and often leave him once they’ve served their purpose.
She's Not Like Other Moms
Ummmmm no! I had a c-section with my first and a vbac with my second. Recovery with my second daughter was much easier.
I don't know why some people talk as though an incision large enough to get the baby out is somehow no big deal.
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A knew someone who had a C-section. Her recovery was terrible. The stitches kept opening and she couldn't nurse or hold her baby for days. She was always puking and the orderlies at the hospital were giving her attitude for it. Mind you, at least that baby came out alive. Unlike the stillborn she first had, and all the miscarriages before that one. It's super unfair, actually downright unethical, to shame mothers for having babies through any method. This person isn't even the only female to bring down mothers. She's just like every other immature, pathetic, insecure girl.
Not to mention a 6lb 6oz baby isn't much of a flex. That's on the smaller side of things.
I was cut straight down from my belly button. Try walking around taking care of an infant with 36 staples in your stomach, terrified they are going to burst and spill your guts out on the floor.
6 pound 6 ounces isn't that big for a baby. And you didn't have to have your abdominal muscles cut through and lose all your core strength, nor did you have to have major surgery and all the complications that can come from that. You did exactly what humans have been doing for hundreds of thousands of years, so congrats, I guess.
Yeah, cuz my baby was 8.5 lbs & had a HUGE head, ya normal-sized head baby making b***h. You ARE like all the other girls lololol
SOMETIMES ITS MEDICAL AND LIFE SAVING!!!! UGHH- // My grandma needed a c-section, or I wouldn’t be here.
C-Sec here - she was breech and we were high risk. Carve me up like a turkey, I'm not risking both our lives.
Must be nice to assume folks choose to have their bellies sliced open... It's a major operation, and usually done because the health and safety of mother and child depend on it.
Why do these women try and shame other women? Wonder what a nightmare her child is going to grow up to be. Not to mention, a baby's head is soft and malleable. That's why they sometimes come out with little cone heads. Pushing a baby out vaginally is actually much easier because that's the "normal" way it should be. Cutting through muscle, etc. is not normal, but life-saving in many cases. This OP is just stupid.
I was a c-section baby. My mother was in labour for 25 hours trying naturally and she agreed to the surgery when the doctor told her it was too risky to continue. There were then complications with the procedure and we both almost died, the doctor guaranteed that we would have if she continued trying natural birth.
My brother was an emergency caesar, we'd have lost both of them if my mother hadn't had that option. I'd really love to put that stupid bint in a room with my mother....
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After 30 hours of labor I had a C-section because my oldest was 10 lbs 14 oz. My youngest was only 9.5 lbs, so 15 hours of labor and a normal delivery. Anyone who thinks a C-section is the easy way out is an *ss.
Oh man next it's gonna be "I'm a real mom because we conceived naturally and didn't need any help from SCIENCE and DOCTORS" ......... or is that already happening?
Oh, sod off. Gatekeeping anything is beyond stupid, but motherhood is depressingly stupid.
I never went into labour, had an emergency c-section, because otherwise my baby would have died inside me. yeah, I'm feeling a teensy bit guilty that I was spared the pain of given birth. but on the other hand my son would have been dead by the time I'd pushed him outside. so yeah.
Trust me you weren't spared the pain of birth, your c section equates
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Childless- but all my friends who gave birth naturally were able to get back to their lives way quicker than the c section girls
You just had someone cut you wide open, right through your abdominal muscles, tissue and inner organs, now you have a gaping wound where someone pulled a whole baby through and that had to be stitched close, is at high risk of infection and will take weeks to heal. Yeah, you had it so easy in comparison to a woman who had a birth the way she was meant to have, all natural from a body opening that was made for exactly this purpose. /s Can we please stop to pretend that a C Section is not a mayor, invasive operation?
I as someone who will never birth a child, as im a man i find this hilarious. Both got pregnant by the same approximate way, both amazingly grew a new human in their body(😵💫) for 9 months. One choose to do it the old fashioned way “because thats how its always been done and should be done 💪🏻” One perhaps had one of many possible complications that made that more risky, or perhaps just said - f**k that why would i do that when i don’t have to. I respect woman 2 more, the one that perhaps did as she pleased no matter what dumb woman 1 or anyone else thinks about it.
They literally have to cut through muscle and organs to get to the baby. Recovery is significantly longer. Pushing a baby out the normal way is the easy way out.
I am a natural birth kinda mom myself (did all 3 the old fashioned way) but don't see C-sections as an easy way out. On the contrary, I insisted on natural birth in part because I find the idea of being subjected to major surgery terrifying and think anyone who went through that is brave af
Yeah no. A c-section is a major surgery and both it and vaginal birth are traumatic events that require a lot of recovery. Having your abdominal muscles cut is not "easy" in any way. It is a major operation done because it is necessary. If this woman has a daughter and her daughter grows up and decides to have kids, would she shame her daughter for getting a life-saving c-section? What about if she herself has another kid and it turns out she needs a c-section for that pregnancy? What a moronic standard. You are a real mom if you are a woman and have kid (biologically or adoption) and love and care for them.
Omg, being a mother to a child makes you a mother, fostering, adoption, c-section, natural birth, it doesn't matter
People who think they're a "real mom" because they squeezed a baby out while someone else had *major surgery* are both arrogant and stupid. And by the way, a 6.6 lb baby is not that big. A woman I worked with gave birth to a kid weighing close to ten. Who's super now, b**ch?
Your kids ain't gonna be ready to duke it out with any Scottish usurpers anytime soon.
Wait someone pushed out a baby that was the size of pea like on the wooden thing? Sheesh they had it easier
my mom had to have an emergency c section. if she hadn’t, she would have died. you can call it the “easy” way out, but being cut open without being fully numbed doesn’t seem so “easy” to me.
At least she tagged admin herself so they could throw her out quicker
Oh, I guess I'm not a real mom twice over then. 🤷♀️ Ended up with emergency surgery with both kids. I'm glad to be alive, and I'm glad my sons are healthy and safe.
How rude! I had natural births but do not think I am better in any way. To all Mom's you do what is best for you. Xx
I don't understand these "c-section isn't giving birth" people. Why is it important how the kid arrived? That doesn't make you a better mother! People pick the weirdest things to be superior about
You are designed to dilate enough to birth a ba y. You are not supposed to zip open and closed. Yeah, it's not fun giving birth vaginally. I've done it 3 times and had 3rd degree tearing twice. I know for certain I found that easier than people I know who had a caesarian.
I'm so glad l didn't have a c section because the recovery sucks. Someone doesn't really know what a c section entails, it seems. Also, my baby was almost a kilo heavier, so should we compete for who pushed harder?
Having been in the room for a Caeserian birth I can tell you it's quite a brutal operation.
And also would they have preferred the baby or you died if you hadn't had the c section... I had two C's for medical emergency and then a vbac...either way I'm still a mother to my children...and btw the vbac was much easier..people who haven't had to do both shouldn't be s******g on either way
I wish people wouldn't post this sort of c**p even just so we can point out the idiocy
People who say women "took the easy way" by having a C section just don't get that it's *major surgery*, with all the attendant risks. A doctor *cut them open* and removed another human being. Screw those who say they're not "real mothers".
I had the worst of both worlds with both my boys. Went through labor only to have to have (life-saving) C-sections in the end. Even the "scheduled" second C-section didn't work out because I went into labor first and had a very painful, uncomfortable time of it before they finally gave me a spinal and wheeled me into surgery. My conclusion: there is no easy way to get a baby out. C-sections are major abdominal surgery. They also saved my life.
My baby sister was born via c-section because she could have passed away if she had not. Do not sit there and say any woman who had a c-section for any reason is not a real mother.
I hate when natural birth moms imply I'm not a real mom because I had a c-section.
Aww, her brag is pushing out a 6.6 oz baby. My sister had two that were over 9lbs, one was almost 10. She's such a wimp./s C-sections/vbac... both are giving birth. Again, if this is your big flex, you gotta try harder. A cow can do as well as you.
I don't know anyone who thinks c-sections are easier than natural childbirth. I had my three children naturally. My sister-in-law had to have a c-section. She had a much longer recovery and suffered much more than I did. Everyone is a mom. It doesn't matter how it gets out of your body.
Sometimes they have medical conditions where they can't push a baby out of their vagina or the baby is to big. Thats what my mom did with me and my triplet siblings. She almost died after giving birth to the triplets. And she is the best mom
A c section is major abdominal surgery. You have to recover from that and cope with a newborn.
6lbs isn't even that big. The average is my country is 7lbs, but whatever makes you feel like a 'real mom'...
Oh although I also had 2 natural births I would say: gurl you're so right. It was soooo easy and chill. Lovely. Are you jealous? Muhahaha. It was really easy in my case. I have heard horror stories though of women pushing 13 hours and then oh he's too big and a ceasarean after all. And the flip side: it almost went wrong with the next one, cause the amniotic sac grew in the wound.
🤣 if only...I have give birth 4×s - Daughter Son Daughter Son...Had both of my girls vag births and both of my sons cesarean.
I like that major abdominal surgery is lower on the traumatic scale for you than your vagina being "forever changed." You cannot be serious lol
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Overall, the world should be much kinder to women. It seems like we can never win, whether we love Taylor Swift and Stanley cups or sports and metal music. Someone will always be judging us for our choices, so the least we can do is not judge each other and instead lift one another up. Women are awesome, regardless of what career path they choose and what they order at a restaurant! And we’re even more powerful when we work together.
I Was All For This Video Until She Started Putting Down Other Women For Their Wedding Dresses
She is drop dead gorgeous and I agree that there are some awful wedding dresses out there but she should have stopped after the 4th screenshot. It's not her place to attack others choices, just to lift up her own choice.
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You’re Not Quirky
Women's rights got you to where you are today. It wasn't so long ago women couldn't open their own bank account, work after marriage, enroll in university, vote, keep their earnings...
We hope these photos aren’t making you too uncomfortable, pandas. We know how cringey they can be, and we can only hope that some of them are satire. But if they’re sincere, we hope that these women will realize how much better life can be when they stop comparing themselves to other women. Keep upvoting the pics you find particularly painful, and then if you’re interested in seeing even more “pick me” girls, check out this Bored Panda article next!
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Internalized Misogyny Is Truly A Trip
This person is really missing out on some beautiful female friendships. I absolutely adore women & my girlfriends. I see all women as potential friends, comrades, sisters.
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Ministry of the womb? BRB...gotta get something to wash this bile out of my mouth
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Did you know that you can bake sourdough bread (and all kinds of other delicious baked goods) while also not being weird about it? You can even be a feminist with a job. #LifeProTips
You can even be a feminist without a job, or without being female. That said, even feminism has its cliques and some of these would qualify as the school of French feminism that celebrates femininity and difference between the genders. I think it was the French feminist Luce Irigaray who famously arrived at events in a fur coat, lipstick and not much else (but it's a long time ago so apols if wrong person).
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I'm confused. Are "real women" supposed to be dainty, pretty, subservient housewives who always put their husband first - or gym rats who eat their husband's steak and chicken wings while stealing other women's men?
Please help!!. How can I uncurl my toenails? I cringed too hard and now they won't straighten back
"I eat uncivilized, amount as well as choice, waste a lot of time pampering a dangerous delusion about the most abusive father figure of all fiction, which I take for real, and should not vote because I have a hole in my crotch!". Well, the last sentence I agree to, just the reasoning is a bit further before.
Adding - I only made it halfway through before I had to go upchuck instead.
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It's sad to realize just how ingrained misogyny is in society that there are women who truly have internalized that c**p.
Some of them will be, but I reckon some are just trying to look different but if something happened that they really didn't like, they'd be running back to the 21st century to join the rest of us.
Load More Replies... Maybe I will get downvoted for saying this, bit, this article made me feel ... Uncomfortable. Like, what am I supposed to believe? Where do I draw the line between freedom of choice and Misogynist women? So sorry if this was offensive too. I JUST DON'T KNOW ANYMORE!!!
No no, you totally have a point, and it's something to think about. Usually the line I have where I jump into mockery is when they start with the anti-vax stuffs and how women shouldn't vote. A lot of this is just women dealing with their own insecurities in a relatively harmless way. Then you get the quiverful weirdos, who ARE actively harmful by being Typhoid Mary and trying to push regressive views. The first grow out of it usually. The second makes another generation to ostensibly fill the world with more sourdough and Jesus and backwards thinking.
Load More Replies... I'm confused. Do Christians like people? Why is it that when someone says something like Christ-centred they instantly follow it with something that equates to " I don't like other people"
They only like the judgmental aspect of it despite the bible telling them it's not their place
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Panda made an article about Womens saying terrible things, and basically being traders to other women because they’re not feminist enough or whatever OK so I’m very disappointed in board panda more than any of the other women who are being mocked
Not sure why BP is more disappointing than people doing a humble brag but you do you. Do have be that person and point out that it's "traitor", not "trader". The second involves exchange (like these women have exchanged their dignity for likes).
Load More Replies... Did you know that you can bake sourdough bread (and all kinds of other delicious baked goods) while also not being weird about it? You can even be a feminist with a job. #LifeProTips
You can even be a feminist without a job, or without being female. That said, even feminism has its cliques and some of these would qualify as the school of French feminism that celebrates femininity and difference between the genders. I think it was the French feminist Luce Irigaray who famously arrived at events in a fur coat, lipstick and not much else (but it's a long time ago so apols if wrong person).
Load More Replies... I'm confused. Are "real women" supposed to be dainty, pretty, subservient housewives who always put their husband first - or gym rats who eat their husband's steak and chicken wings while stealing other women's men?
Please help!!. How can I uncurl my toenails? I cringed too hard and now they won't straighten back
"I eat uncivilized, amount as well as choice, waste a lot of time pampering a dangerous delusion about the most abusive father figure of all fiction, which I take for real, and should not vote because I have a hole in my crotch!". Well, the last sentence I agree to, just the reasoning is a bit further before.
Adding - I only made it halfway through before I had to go upchuck instead.
Load More Replies... It's sad to realize just how ingrained misogyny is in society that there are women who truly have internalized that c**p.
Some of them will be, but I reckon some are just trying to look different but if something happened that they really didn't like, they'd be running back to the 21st century to join the rest of us.
Load More Replies... Maybe I will get downvoted for saying this, bit, this article made me feel ... Uncomfortable. Like, what am I supposed to believe? Where do I draw the line between freedom of choice and Misogynist women? So sorry if this was offensive too. I JUST DON'T KNOW ANYMORE!!!
No no, you totally have a point, and it's something to think about. Usually the line I have where I jump into mockery is when they start with the anti-vax stuffs and how women shouldn't vote. A lot of this is just women dealing with their own insecurities in a relatively harmless way. Then you get the quiverful weirdos, who ARE actively harmful by being Typhoid Mary and trying to push regressive views. The first grow out of it usually. The second makes another generation to ostensibly fill the world with more sourdough and Jesus and backwards thinking.
Load More Replies... I'm confused. Do Christians like people? Why is it that when someone says something like Christ-centred they instantly follow it with something that equates to " I don't like other people"
They only like the judgmental aspect of it despite the bible telling them it's not their place
Load More Replies... Panda made an article about Womens saying terrible things, and basically being traders to other women because they’re not feminist enough or whatever OK so I’m very disappointed in board panda more than any of the other women who are being mocked
Not sure why BP is more disappointing than people doing a humble brag but you do you. Do have be that person and point out that it's "traitor", not "trader". The second involves exchange (like these women have exchanged their dignity for likes).
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