Chiamare le donne di mezza età bianca Karen è un “bloccare razzista, sessista e invecchiato”, ha detto il tribunale dell’occupazione
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/calling-white-women-karen-racist-ageist/
di tylerthe-theatre
Chiamare le donne di mezza età bianca Karen è un “bloccare razzista, sessista e invecchiato”, ha detto il tribunale dell’occupazione
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/calling-white-women-karen-racist-ageist/
di tylerthe-theatre
27 commenti
It definitely *can* be one. I’ve seen it used against women making perfectly reasonable requests like telling people to keep the noise down when they’re blasting music at 02:00
Can’t everyone be a Karen, no matter the age, race etc?
Isn’t it applied to someone because of their behaviour, rather than immutable characteristics? I call my friend a karen all the time when he’s being one.
They’ll just be a name change if that’s the case and Courts won’t be able to keep up.
I personally don’t understand why it exists as a word anymore. Originally it referred to a “can I speak to your manager” type of person, irrespective of gender, yet now everyone uses it as a generalised slur against any woman they disagree with.
Just use the word “bitch”. We all know that’s what you’re doing anyway. At least own your misogyny like a man.
Maybe you shouldn’t call someone you work with Karen. That is rude and inappropriate
It was a real shitty thing to do to actual Karen’s, but you never know when these things are going to catch on. Hope it’s just a generational slang that’s gone in my lifetime.
We just go back to calling people who are behaving like Karens what we used to call them, self absorbed entitled brats who never grew up
Yeah reddit and twitter do take great delight in these kind of stereotypes. I think there’s a belief they are ‘punching up’ but quite often it seems they are just punching.
That’s the most Karen thing any Karen has ever Karened
By the same logic is “Peter Pan” also ageist, sexist and so on? Just curious how the law figures these things out?
I was a personal assistant to a MD called Karen, who was a woman of a certain age and also a bit of a Karen.
She once asked me when I wasn’t expecting it if she was a Karen. Almost bit through my cheek saying no.
Last I checked karens came in all shapes and colors. Anyone can be a Karen. There are even male Karens. Race is not a factor. Is it now racist to call someone an AH?
Nonsense! I used to call my middle-aged white boss Karen all the time, and she was totally fine with it.
I guess it helped that her actual name was Karen, but idk
What if her first name is actually Karen?
Do we call her Voldermort (she who shall not be named) to avoid liability? **/S**
Does that mean people called Karen can now sue their parents? Or people born after the “slur” became popularised only?
Edit: as someone born and raised in Scotland, calling someone a Jessie, meaning wimpy and not masculine, was thrown around on the daily. Not once did we take it as a racist, sexist (was aimed at males) or whatever. We took it on the chin…. and then called that person also a Jessie.
Maybe just stop using derogatory terms for your coworkers? If someone is doing something wrong, complain about the thing they are doing wrong rather than using a slur against them.
Slurs against protected characteristics are particularly bad, but slurs against other characteristics are not acceptable either.
Little girls born in the 60s and 70s were probably the first ones to be encouraged to stand up for themselves and to be unafraid to speak out. The problem is that now we’re menopausal and irrationally angry.
Nah being a Karen is an attitude issue, not a race, gender or age issue, my 5 year old son can be the biggest Karen sometimes…
If they weren’t being a Karen this wouldn’t be an issue. Are we not seeing the irony here?
Knew a Karen who had to change her name in her 40s she was
Karen just means cunt, but no one wants to admit it.
The people who are most upset at the word Karen are generally people who want to act like Karens but not be pulled up on their behaviour.
Dont want to be called one? Dont act like one.
Stop the world, I wanna get off.
A “Karen” is describing characteristics, it’s nothing to do with race. Absolutely sick of that R word used out of context in attempt to cancel things/people.
Speech police…. funny thing is, you lot police yourselves.
Karens come in all form shape age race and genders. So wtf are they talking about
If the only reason they’re being called a Karen is because they’re white and middle ages then yeah, it’s definitely a slur