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Are you offended by the term 'Karen' in reference to a certain type of person?

Asked by CybertonSlapback (160points) February 1st, 2022

The term Karen is bandied about in order to, I guess, suppress and humiliate a type of person who is generally seen to be white, privileged and seemingly entitled.

If you look at YouTube, for example, there are tons of Karen videos and these are collections of white older females acting out, for want of a better word, in absurd type skits. They are often bedraggled, unkempt and overweight. The term is also used frequently in arguments. For example, someone might say “Stop being a Karen”. This could be online and the person might not be overweight, older or even female.

What do you think the male equivalent should be? Do you think there should be a male equivalent or not? Do you find this to be racist? Consider if we called all overweight, older people of colour, a certain name, how would that fly? Finally, do you know anyone called karen and how do they feel about this?

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