In the US, "Karen" is considered a terrible insult.
“I want to talk to the general manager! Do you know who I am?" - a white woman with a short bob haircut screams hysterically. She has a child in her hands. She is 30, maximum 40. When she hears the slogan Black lives matter, she immediately snaps with displeasure that all lives matter. She treats blacks and Asians with undisguised contempt and believes that they should all go home. She doesn’t wear a mask, hasn’t been vaccinated against Covid, because she believes in conspiracy theories and microchipping. She deliberately coughs on shoppers at Whole Foods. It requires special treatment, discounts and privileges, simply because it exists. She will eat the lobster from the salad, and then complain to the waiter that there was not enough of it and ask to remake the dish. She will write a complaint about the flight attendant who ran out of champagne in business class. She will take the children in the divorce and drag you through the courts. She gives unsolicited advice in an aggressive manner. She rummages through children's things without asking in order to find something secret, under the guise of good intentions. She is the same mother who will collect petitions to ban killing in video games - any showdown gives her an orgasm. A lawyer is number one on her list of favorite contacts.
Meet Karen. Even if the passport says a different name, but the behavioral patterns coincide with those described above, then it is still Karen. Perhaps you are Karen. In the US, "Karen" is a terrible insult. No one knows exactly why Karen became a household name and went among the people. The internet is flooded with memes and videos of hysterical women. Real Karens are outraged, and so are feminists: the term is sexist and ageist, causing fear of self-expression and thus being a way of controlling women’s behavior.
Author: Yunia Pugacheva
