Trending Medium Article on “Pick-Mes” is Exactly Why You Can’t Use TikTok as a Primary Source
As if Black women needed MORE foolishness today.
I rarely respond to another Medium article, but my spirit is restless, especially after all the misinformation about Juneteenth I just didn’t have the energy to address.
Short, but sweet, the writer of this article wholeheartedly wants to address the shaming of a woman’s interests, similar to my last article. She just uses an appropriated term to get her point across. One she discovered from TikTok comments from users who were using the term incorrectly. And her comments thanked the writer for the “education” of this “new term.”
I first want to say I understand what the writer meant. Feminism is complicated and sometimes women gatekeep that feminism to their version of what a feminist should look like, which makes those pretending to espouse feminist virtues — cough*TERFs*cough — no different than the other people who judge women’s decisions. I get this because I’m a Black woman and we have always mentioned how limiting white feminism is. Shaming women who take on activities society deems as male do indeed get flak from folks who think women take on these activities for male attention, and from folks who think women who enjoy these activities aren’t…