"Pick me Girls" | Trailer
"PICK ME GIRLS"
by and with Sophie Passmann
Directed by Christina Tscharyiski
"I'm not like other women," is the typical phrase of a "pick me girl." Most women have probably thought this at some point. Not only as an excessive overestimation of their own individuality, but also as a denigration of their own self: not as beautiful, not as thin. Especially as a woman, one is confronted with being judged from a young age: the male gaze, the desire for desire, is the most important currency of all. If attention and recognition from men are the highest good for a woman, then she is readily labeled a "pick me girl."
In her very personal essay "Pick Me Girls," which she brings to the stage together with director Christina Tscharyiski, Sophie Passmann talks about precisely this male gaze and how it has shaped her, about the ideals and images with which she grew up, and about "the woman I actually would have become."