I understand and accept that it’s a pretty universal term, but the word doesn’t quite hit as hard when used in real life. I’ve noticed that often times it’s an older person showcasing “Karen- like” behavior, and when they’re called out as such, they don’t even know what the hell it means. I think it’s a word better used on the internet.
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Karen wrote this
It’s also sexist and probably racist. But if white women don’t care, who am I to say.
OP demands to speak to the manager
What if her name is KAREN?
Karen….everyone’s tired of your bullshit.
Have you talked to the manager about it?
Plus what if their name is actually Karen…
I also feel like it’s gone from meaning somebody who is rude and entitled with customer service people, to literally anybody who has any kind of issue at all with customer service, justified or not.
Ok Karen
Karen just accept your fate
Such a Kayden thing to do, smh
It’s also lazy; You should find much more apt and precise methods of creating emotional damage.
Ok Karen
Is “asshole” a more suitable term to you?
Either way, a lot of Karens are old enough to understand this part of meme culture. It may be cringe, but if the term works, then one should use it.
Yh, it’s just a catch-all term laced with misogyny, ageism and dumb classism these days.
Plus it sounds stupid when people do it in the UK where Karen tends to be a lower-middle class or working class name. But they still do it.
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> often times it’s an older person showcasing “Karen- like” behavior, and when they’re called out as such, they don’t even know what the hell it means.
Say Susan then. That’s the name of the Karens before they came to be called Karen.
Or Nancy if you need to go back another generation.
Or call them what they are actually acting like and there are no algorithms to censor you: bitch.
As is “cringy”
r/randomthoughts thats where this belongs
Look for “karen” videos and you’ll find a lot of people making fun of normal women having a bad moment. The misogynists have appropriated it. The original usage is over.
At this point, referring to “Karens” out loud it cringy regardless
I’d say anyone 40 and under should know the term by now.
Using Karen at all is cringe
It also just kinda sucks to use the term, because everyone who is friendly and happens to be named Karen is collateral damage lol.
But yeah fully agree, bringing “online”-language to the real world is just kinda meh, unless you know you’re talking to someone who gets it. Always better to confront people in a mature, clear and concise way. Hits harder too.
The term has been so overused and misapplied that it has been rendered meaningless. Probably best to stop using it, and just let it die at this point.
Also doing it in the heat of things it is just a terrible idea. Like telling someone to calm down, it’s just going to get them more annoyed
OP is at this minute talking to lawyers to sue all the negative commentors in this thread, they will shut down the internets!
Sounds like op got called Karen to their face recently
The Karen meme has made white ladies think twice before being jerks…I approve.
This term is also sexist.
Being a Karen is cringier.
Okay Karen.
No it isn’t.
The term has lost its entire meaning and purpose. “Karen” is now anyone, mainly women, who have a problem with customer service even when it’s justified. Or just women not behaving the way people think they should in general.
Might be cringe but if it makes them stop acting like one then is it really that wrong
Karen’s are cringe. Videos calling them out are entertainment
Just out of curiosity, but how/who decided to use the name “Karen”? I feel bad because I know a lady born with that name and she really is the sweetest thing 🙁 shame it became a meme/insult.
I had an old friend Karen, when we caught up once we joked about how everyone dragged her name through the mud.
Her mom was an immigrant in the US from El Salvador now living in Canada; Karen was a foreign and beautiful name to her, didnt have the same associations it would for someone born in US or Canada; all her siblings have Spanish names. It’s a shame really.
This year’s name list for Atlantic tropical storms has Karen on it.
The jokes write themselves.
Wait is this an unpopular opinion? I’ve literally never heard this opinion or it’s opposite
Ok karen
Don’t call Karen by her name. Got it