#Who else is Karenphobic raise their hands 🙋🏾‍♀️

[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.