I guess the name Karen might have different connotations in the US but the concept is of an overly-entitled middle-aged, usually white, woman.
Pretty much. Because I get loads of US-based news articles via Flipboard, particularly ones about The Donald and BLM at the moment, Karen’s do crop up fairly frequently; I think Susan’s are the UK equivalent, the loud, pushy, usually White woman with a sense of entitlement big enough to have its own postcode and visible on Google Earth.
Does a ‘Karen’ have to be female?
Well, it’s not a name I’ve ever seen used by a Male. Although, having said that, I believe there might be a German Male name something like it.
Load of bloody Hitlers on here.
Low key brilliant comment.
One of the few examples of the US being more class conscious than the UK instead of the more usual reverse situation.
One problem with your thesis. It’s nothing to do with class.
the other problem is that the USA has a very firm class structure and a very healthy old boy network.
Possibly from Will & Grace where Karen was a very entitled rich white woman character.
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It’s 2020. If someone’s offended by it then really it should be banned.No, it really shouldn’t. Mildly offending someone isn’t a crime. Stop trying to water everything down to the point where we won’t even be able to do comedy soon.
“Karen’ isn’t a racist term, it’s not mysoginistic, it’s not homophobic, it’s just a bloody term to describe a type of person. So what if some melt gets offended by it?
I was being sarcastic.
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The cougar in talladega nights was called karen.
An actual cougar.
Does a ‘Karen’ have to be female?
As an insult, probably.
As an annoying personality trait, no. It's a reference to the sort of know it all irritating person who insists on speaking to the manager.
Any reference to "does anyone have the CEO of ......... e-mail address?", or "I disagreed with ........ so I escalated it to the manager / CEO / ombudsman", "Brant, Brant, Brant" is a Karen.
My mate Kevved up his car, the Wally. He looks a right Dick in it. Cruises round town picking up Tracys and Sharons, he'll be seeing the doctor about his John Thomas if he's not careful. His girlfriend will throw a proper Benny if she ever finds out, they've got a kid together and he's a spotty little Herbert an' all.
Would it be inappropriate to post a picture of Karen Gillan?
Asking for a friend.
It is a derogitory term?
Yet it seems quite acceptable to label someone a Karen.
You know how people are happy to use pejorative terms right up until someone uses a pejorative term for them? It's like that. See also those who used the term snowflake but were outraged once people started to referring to them as Gammons or Boomers.
His girlfriend will throw a proper Benny if she ever finds out
You've got to be pretty old now to get where that reference comes from!
You’ve got to be pretty old now to get where that reference comes from!
Old enough to know that if you are going to chuck a Benny then you need to be aware that they only come in the one size option.
MASSIVE!
I’m just relieved I can still bandy the word Moron around. It’s all I have left in life.
I’m just relieved I can still bandy the word Moron around. It’s all I have left in life.
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Is Karen the new Louise?
From my own personal experience they are just as crazy, but in a different way. Less likely to stab you, more likely to dry tea bags on the radiator so they can be used again.
I hadn’t heard of this before seeing this on STW then this came up to. While having a conversation about correct-think for a section of people is debatable it seems that there is a more unpleasant aspect to it.
Do onto others as you would have done onto you
SPIKED-ONLINE.COM Am I still allowed to think about Keren from Bananarama?
Can we call her Fanny?
FFS OP, what a WOKE stain.
Am I still allowed to think about Keren from Bananarama?
I hope so, because I am as well now.
it seems that there is a more unpleasant aspect to it. Do onto others as you would have done onto you
You seemed to have missed the point. Mind you, it's a Spiked article, TBF to you, that is the point of Spiked
Shush.
I'm thinking of Keren from Bananarama
Simpler times
Why does the poster call her Keven?
If that's not shoddy handwriting my teenage years are written off.
Why does the poster call her Keven?
Why are you looking at the writing?
It was probably written with the wrong handed.
Less likely to stab you, more likely to dry tea bags on the radiator so they can be used again.
I'd narrowly prefer the former.
who will demand to see the person in charge for a minion fault.
Keren Woodward was always my favourite out of all the Banana Splits.
My wife is looking for a name change . Albeit , I have lived with her for 20 years now and I havent seen a knife fly towards me , although she dries the tea bags on the window sill. So, what name should she change to and delete Karen from her name 🙂
If she dries teabags on the windowsill, I'd carry on calling her Karen 🙄
Can we call her Fanny?
Depends where she keeps her phone
Honestly, just because YOU think something is harmless fun doesn't mean that everyone does. I can imagine it's pretty unpleasant to have your own name turned into an insult, and probably endure endless bloody stupid jokes about it forever and have your feelings dismissed with 'oh we're just kidding it's nothing' when you complain. Which brings me on to:
Stop trying to water everything down to the point where we won’t even be able to do comedy soon.
Repeating memes or catchphrases isn't comedy. Actual funny people will always be able to be funny.
There was an excellent article from a bame Karen explaining why the meme is neither sexist or racist
I'm not calling it sexist or racist, I'm calling it unpleasant when so many people are actually called Karen.
So I say again, I'd prefer to be called a little entitled over toilet or user of prostitutes (deed poll to Karenx2?)
Is there a distinction between throwing a Benny and throwing a Barney?
Benny from Crossroads?
Have you thought about complaining to the manager?
Repeating memes or catchphrases isn’t comedy.
Moreover,
Many of these memes are actual real photos of actual real people. The "triggered" one leaps to mind but there are many, many more. Would you appreciate being the subject of one of them? I doubt it very much. It's the sort of thing that leads to suicides.
Is there a distinction between throwing a Benny and throwing a Barney?
Benny from Crossroads?
Benny from Crossroads is exactly where the phrase comes from.
I've heard of having a barney but never heard of throwing one. That's Cockney rhyming slang isn't it? Barney Rubble = trouble.
Repeating memes or catchphrases isn’t comedy.
That's me humped then. 🙁
INSTAGRAM.COM Many of these memes are actual real photos of actual real people. The “triggered” one leaps to mind but there are many, many more. Would you appreciate being the subject of one of them? I doubt it very much. It’s the sort of thing that leads to suicides.
Yeah, you gotta feel bad for a couple of wealthy personal injury lawyers guarding their mansion in a gated community from elitists who want white people to stop shooting black people.
