#‘Karen is a slur’

[tiredistic]

[mysticalcoffeequeen]

The term Karen refers to a Middle-Aged (entitled) White Woman who publicly overreacts often to the point of hostility over what is essentially a small inconvenience. Examples range from a coffee order missing one ingredient to calling the police on a POC for simply sitting on a park bench in her neighborhood. Karen’s behavior is one of selfish outrage, condescending, entitled & cruel towards others who have done very little to nothing to provoke such behavior. Even when angered, those with base maturity know when confronted with rejection, to swallow their pride and handle it differently, but Karen’s are a category of prideful mentally immature adults who do not take well to getting anything but their own way and avoid accountability for the very real harm they cause to others as a result of being confronted with a simple “no”! So there she stands, overwhelmed & throwing a tantrum that she is the one who been extremely wronged and abused in the situation that she should be owed an apology for, & not the barista or POC who’s day she ruined because of something she really could have simply left alone.

This is not about female hysteria as a whole. That topic has been tackled in things like women under extreme stress, have an unchecked mental illness, or postpartum psychosis. This is not about standing up for one’s-self or silencing women, as being vocal while demonized has been the topic of “angry black/brown woman” discussions as well as discussions about women setting basic boundaries. This is not about slurs either, collectively we have been called a lot of things if not worse to this day. “Karen” is a mindset and one carried by a distinct group of people who have been told, convinced & assured that they are superior, exceptions are to be made for them and those they deem socially inferior should adhere to their rules without question!

Gotta say though reading “Karen is a slur that carries major cultural implications” is a pretty wild & hilarious take as its basically in line with what a Karen would say.

Can we talk about the blatant misogyny behind the "Karen"- trend again?

Women are attacking each other with a random female name, designed to indicate there's literal modern female hysteria being portraited by a another woman, sometimes older one who's being "overly dramatic & assertive" about things that supposedly shouldn't matter. What's a more genius way to silence women further than a comedic spectacle shaming them collectively with a term synonymous to 'overreacting crazy woman'?

Males are exhilarated over this, they create masses of accounts dedicated to "Karen fails" where they film women of all ages and backgrounds standing up for themselves often if not always nonconsensually. This is all to feed their hatred of women. They specifically seek it to feed those emotions through those pages.

Everyone using this term for whatever context now, is perpetuating and normalizing this phenomenon as acceptable, normal content to consume AND CREATE. By accepting this usage we're differentiating ourselves from other girls and women saying we're not like the crazy women, we're sane like men.

Girls, think again the next time you're beefing with each other, because this dumpsterfire of a phenomenon is a slur that has MAJOR cultural implications for all of our rights and the ability to be heard. We've all already witnessed the power memes and internet slander has, overpowering even the actual laws. Let's not make this the next 'bitch' & have our granddaughters have to reclaim the language.

[meangirls4fetchen]

they're so gAy gay homosexual lesbian dykes who kiss each other nd have lesbian sex n shit

[subparcarrion]

wish I had the confidence to pull up to the function in Elias cosplay unprompted.

[urlocal-cryptid7]

Main complaint (I have so many) of mean girls 2024 is Janice isn’t enough of a freak (/pos). She’s kind of the trendy art kid and she should 100% be like punk freak weird dark makeup who wears actually odd clothes. Love freak Janice bring her back

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

thinking about how Sean standing up for Daniel during the ep 1 fight highlights his protectiveness for his family, so Brett attacks Daniel with ableist slurs and goes after Sean's racial heritage, while Sean questioning Daniel highlights his buried anger at his family members for the way they make his life difficult, so Brett brings up Karen. like every reaction reveals a different vulnerability for Brett to take advantage of and there's no winning no matter whether Sean stands up for Daniel or blames him.

[lostinthewanderingblue]

Karen Page likes to think of herself as a self-reliant person. She’s no expert fighter like Matt or Frank, but Karen can take care of herself. Hell, she murdered her kidnapper. Seven shots. Seven slugs in the chest. She has a gun license and a piece of her own now, but the weight still feels like Wesley’s gun in her hands. Karen marches herself to gun range once a week to practice, Frank sometimes showing up to offer tips. She’s improved a lot, and she was pretty damn good in the first place. Growing up in a small town will do that, scrounging entertainment from Dad’s gun and soda cans.

Being decent with a gun doesn’t do her much good in the courthouse.

[abel-brannigan]

Sorry

“the only two i recognise are the ones that i’m pretty sure hate each other.. or well ONE hates the OTHER but honestly she hates everyone.”

[atcordare]

I've seen the horrors (works retail) (9 hours shift) (ffffuckvkvkv)

[aishabellasbigblogofeverything]

Black women: *make a harmless fucking joke*

White people:

White people: *steal the joke, deprive it of its original context, and make it into something iffy and problematic that it was never meant to be in the first place*

White people: This joke is cancelled now, it's no good, and in fact it was never good in the first place lol.

[the-fruit-tea-devil]

I hate when people say that Karen is only to be used by black people towards white women but then turn around and say that Karen isn’t a racial slur. First off, I don’t think Karen is a racial slur so therefore I disagree with you BECAUSE ANYBODY of any color or gender can be a Karen. Either Karen can be used by and for any gender or race or Karen is a racial slur. Which one is it? Let’s say there’s an entitled bitch who just happens to be both black and female? We can’t call her Karen? So what is she? A Shaniqua?

if Karen is gonna be reserved only for white women then it should be okay to call a black person being acting a Karen, a Shaniqua. No I’m not going to do that because I’m not going racial profile people like that.

Either we make racial stereotypes about everybody or nobody. No compromise. Unless you’re trying to insinuate we treat black people as children or poor little things who don’t know any better. Nope. I’m not having that. And if me not being a woke racist makes me a racist, then suck it. If this post makes you so mad you can’t say anything besides “omg u r literallly racist poopy butt hole uwu ”, then fuck off. I’m not in the mood

[tiredistic]

[phatcatphergus]

you know it’s bad when twitter users are asking them if their post is bait 😭😭

SGAHAJSNA NO REAL

It’s almost funny how seriously they’re taking it

I saw someone say they’re going to write an email to his business account over it like???

[itstimeforstarwars]

I used to think semi drivers were the most annoying people on earth but now I know that actually the people who run the truck companies are much more fucking annoying than any of the individual truckers.

[endmylife69]

For the last time, Karen is not sexist and it sure as hell ain't racist. Stop comparing it to the N-Word, or start calling the Karen term the K-Word if you want that argument to work. The negative connotations to the name Karen has absolutely NOTHING to do with it being a female name. Where's all the complaining about the negative connotations attached to Kyle, Tyrone, or Dick? Not to mention if your biggest problem in the world is a random name being made into a meme to make fun of a certain type of person, (who deserve to be made fun of) hundreds if not thousands of homeless people who are starving to death would love to switch places with you right now....

If I see one more Karen bitching about the Karen meme I will scream in anger. What, would you rather be called a bitch, instead? Cause i'd be glad to call you that.

[skrunglebeasts]

normally my dislike for a character doesnt really go beyond a little annoyance and then i move on. this is how i think most people should deal with things. however, i have this thing that happens consistently where my least favorite ends up becoming the one that very, very, very large chunk of fans latch on to and i cant go into tags or reblog anything about this stuff without seeing this character again and again and again and the only option is to log off entirely or i risk ruining my own day