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It's only in the US anyway, Karens over here have nothing to worry about.

some of my best exes are karens : /

at least their name isn't slang for a toilet, i guess

i went to gradeschool with a Karen who grew up to be a "Karen" based on what I know about her.
i know a NYC based Karen who is not a Karen and finds it funny when people call her "Karen" derogatorily

i do wonder if there is a reverse correlation between "common white girl names from the 70s and 80s used to describe horrible white women in the contemporary era" and "common white girl names from the 70s and 80s that were used in popular songs from the era" ... like the Karens and Beckys dodged bullets growing up, avoiding being mockingly serenaded as children, unlike the poor Amandas, Sarahs, and Jennys ... and now, Karens and Beckys, it's your fucking turn!!

(I forget the Dianes ... sorry Dianes, you too had it rough in the 80s)

more of a specific instance, but never forget what Joe Blows went through. that wasn't fair to ya, Blows!

This thread has gone to the dogs. Why would you spend so much time discussing this name? You guys are a bunch of Karen tarriers.

and of course, above all, Joey Corona we are all thinking about you right now

i always worry about someone with my first and last name doing something awful and then the name becomes infamous

but re, this being a "humorless woke belief," i don't think so. i'm defending 'karens' against the scolding hoardes of wokes

I could re-write Nick Cave's "John Finn's wife" to be about you treesh

I never knew calling out sexism was a tenet of conservatism

i think the criticism, treesh, is that there are so many things jn the world that also aren't quite fair. the psychological damage to irl "karens" is probably pretty low on the list

or at least, that's my (mild) criticism

and of course, above all, Joey Corona we are all thinking about you right now

xp, well that's why i haven't started a national campaign to stamp out this prejudice. i just think it's a bit hypocritcal for progressives to fall in love with stereotypes about shrill women who complain too much.

i can see that, but also understand where it came from (see Branwell's post)

i hate people who speak down to service workers but it's not only women that do that

i don't think an unfunny stereotype helps, really. even if it's "punching up" sometimes. that's the conservative part of my post.

anyone have a cite for Branwell's etymology, the origins I see give the redditor complaining about his ex and a Dane Cook joke.

I have seen evidence that "Karen" has already made the jump from woke Twitterites to broke Facebook whites.

i hate people who speak down to service workers but it's not only women that do that

― treeship., Tuesday, May 5, 2020 10:58 AM (fifty-eight seconds ago)

you don't say???

i used to see it as Carols and then it mass stuck to Karens around the peak of all the videos of white women calling the cops.

i think we can all agree that stock jokes about "Carlos" would not be appreciated on the left

ppl have been using generic names as pejoratives for a long time and were using a few different old white ppl names for a while before it coalesced around 'karen' and got used much more widely. i have heard ppl use kevin and stephen and susan, almost anything works if you say it the right way, bc it's really all about tone

Really? I feel like BBQ Becky (et al) peaked at least a year (if not two) before Karen got coined

even just using people's actual name can be ironically disrespectful and cutting, there's a lot of grey area

Every Dick, Tom and Harry...

"barbecue becky" is at least alliterative. that one is approved.

There's different ones in different countries - not surprisingly.

i thought bbq becky was a leftover from becky with the good hair and it all segued from any old bland white name---> to karens.

the Karens and Beckys dodged bullets growing up

My friend Becky who was in middle school when "Baby Got Back" came out begs to differ!

all the white women calling the cops had alliterative nicknames. that was the idea. xpost

wait there was an actual "barbecue becky," a woman who called to complain about a black family barbecuing in a park. (charcoal grills weren't permitted in the park). her photo got out and got plastered all over memes. not sure how i feel about that.

BBQ Becky was "Becky" because it was alliterative. Most of the sequels to BBQ Becky were also alliterative, aka Permit Patty

yeah the becky in the sir mixalot was brought up in a becky/karen article about original becky.

we've probably done "should non-famous people be shamed on the internet?" a dozen times in this thread alone already

the becky from baby got back isn't white

and also is fictional

defending bad white women is indeed conservative.

archetypes are reductive, no need to be such a treesh about it (sorry treesh)

xp BBQ Becky incident happened about 10 blocks from where I live ...

wait there was an actual "barbecue becky," a woman who called to complain about a black family barbecuing in a park. (charcoal grills weren't permitted in the park). her photo got out and got plastered all over memes. not sure how i feel about that.

― treeship., Tuesday, May 5, 2020 11:10 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

feel pretty good about it personally

???the becky in the sir mix a lot video isn't white???

the becky from baby got back isn't white

― treeship., Tuesday, May 5, 2020 2:11 PM (forty seconds ago)

...

I'll go check but this is wildly wrong iirc

the Karens and Beckys dodged bullets growing up

My friend Becky who was in middle school when "Baby Got Back" came out begs to differ!

― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, May 5, 2020 11:09 AM (two minutes ago)

uh, that song came out in 1992 ... my post was about 70s and 80s popular music ... your friend is a millenial, and most of the stereotypical Karens are Gen-X women, so ...

oh good, it took only 1 second to confirm that she most certainly is

treeship...

"barbecue becky" is at least alliterative. that one is approved.

same with donkey dick dale

maybe he thinks brunettes aren't white?