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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?

in the lyrics. unless "becky" is the addressee and not the girl they're talking about.

Oh, my, God Becky, look at her butt
It is so big, she looks like
One of those rap guys' girlfriends.
...
I mean gross, look
She's just so, black

xp to sarahell, I only meant popular culture came for the Beckys well before 2010 or w/e

i've never seen the video for that. i cannot be held responsible for music videos made before the year 2000.

treeship...

― Yerac, Tuesday, May 5, 2020 6:14 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

xp. becky is the addressee.

jesus treesh.

i cannot be held responsible for any of these white boys allowed on the internet.

oh my god, look at that post

sorry i never did a close reading of that song before. i'll dust off my old cleanth brooks textbooks tonight to sharpen my skills.

oh my, god look, at that post

now do a girl named Suzy.

genuinely shocked this hasn't been posted prior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcKG4EJ6rsQ

ogmor is correct, until fairly recently this meme was just any generic white lady name, “jeez Debbie” or whatever, which is why tracing it back to dane cook or some random on reddit is off the mark

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShittyLifeProTips/comments/62cw4z/lpt_avoid_the_pain_of_a_messy_divorce_by_not/

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/7lz4ar/what_is_this_fuck_you_karen_thing/

I don't know that looks like convincing evidence of the origin to me

That’s literally just a bunch of dudes repeating “I hate my ex” and has no connection to the “type” exemplified in the meme

The name is the same yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI

The first link is what I thought was cited as the inspiration for the name Karen being chosen. But looking again it's not from the same user most point to, so never mind.

The second is someone asking about it some months after the snowball started rolling down the hill. So at least that kind of puts a timestamp on it. Always thought it was a reddit thing.

lol I know a man in his early 40s who definitely exhibits Karen-like behavior and for that, among other reasons, we’ll joke about “pulling a Brian” when doing something he’d do

nice guy to hang out with until the moment he asks something mortifying of a person in our vicinity then it’s a race to cut him off mid-sentence, though

names have been changed to protect the man-Karen

🎶but I do knowwwww man-Karen🎶

College shouldn't be free.

(I don't know if this is really a conservative opinion because I think public college tuition should be a third of what it is now and that state government support should make up most of the difference)