Background: A pick-me gay is a fairly entrenched concept in the gay community. It's basically the 'not-like-other-girls' of gays.
I've gathered a collection of reddit threads discussing the concept.
/r/AskGayMen: What are your thoughts on pick me gays?
Most controversial comment: they choose assimilation instead of liberation which spawns debate on heteronormativity with hypocrisy of the comment being pointed out.
Most upmarseyd: no one should put down others to make themselves feel better ...folllwed by r/notlikepthergorls.
Ah the duality of gays.
That wasn't too spicy. Let's see what if there is anything better in /r/AskGayBros where OP laments being called a pick me for not 'personally believe in neo-pronouns, because I think the 11 color Progress Flag is ugly as frick, because I think most mainstream gay culture is shallow and materialistic, and because I want to improve the material conditions of people I strongly dislike and strongly disagree with.'.
(ALMOST) Most controversial: wish there were more gays like you. Tired of the multiple flags and pro nouns shit which spawns some back and forth about OP being a pick me c*nt and the person replying being sanctimonious af.
Most Upmarseyd: Stop worrying about what the crowd is doing. Just do you....followed by this whole lotta' nothing.
So there appear to be a range of opinions on the topic. Only a smattering of drama here and there.
So I turn to the last bastion of drama, /r/XenogendersAndMore.
Specifically this pickmegay/trans starter pack.
Nothing TOO spicy because this sub is literally an echochamber. But it's pretty funny because the starter pack itself reveals the author seething over people not being on board 100% with everything they say.
Anyway, /h/gaybros, what is your opinion?
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Dramatards like to think the homos of /r/askgaybros are based. But look at that thread, filled with upmarseyd soy.
At the end of the day, a redditor is still a redditor.
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I know, it really surprised me. But at least a lot of it was 'live and let live' or indifference versus all 'yeah they have internalised homophobia'.
So that's...something?
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Even those comments are couched in xkcd comic "they're showing you the door" type smugness.
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Yeah I noticed that. The second highest comment in one of those threads was called out for being a literal non-sequiter of 'so what if it isn't illegal, what does that have to do with anything'.
Sad because that thread is fairly recent AND /r/AskGayBros is currently in the throes of someone trying to usurp/remove the top mod via applying to admins (it's a pinned post atm). The users in the thread lament that it's probably the end of the subreddit as the last place that doesn't unconditionally bend the knee and suck the gock.
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Lmao you weren't kidding.
Yep, they're finished.
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Ah there it is.
And as always...
Sucks because it's basically one of two subreddits I still semi-frequent.
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