Calling people names like Karen. How does this make the person calling people Karen better than the "Karens" they refer to?
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Nothing really, but in my personal opinion a lot depends on context. There’s a big difference between angrily and maliciously calling somebody a karen in public right to their face, and innocently blowing off steam to a friend in conversation like ‘omg, I had this nasty customer at work today, she was such a karen.’ It seems like the question is insinuating that ‘name calling’ is immature and we need to all be the bigger person, and for the most part we should, but it’s also been medically proven that venting and swearing are important to human health. So maybe using less than polite words without directly hurting feelings doesn’t always make somebody a childish bad person, and nobody should think of themselves as being ‘better’ than anyone else.
"B*tch, get you and your demon spawn out of here! The employee said the coupon doesn't work! Leave! And don't ask for the manager, they'll tell you the same thing!"
B*tch = Karen
Calling someone a name isn’t nice but calling the cops on someone or screaming at someone for no good reason is worse.
I was thinking about this last week. I'm not if it makes the name caller a 'Karen', but it does suck for people named Karen. Every time I hear or read the name Karen, I automatically think of a snotty privileged person. Sorry to all the Karen's who aren't 'Karen's'. I wonder, who was the first 'Karen'? 🤔
I feel bad for Karen's every time I hear the name Karen I think of a snooty untitled stupid person when they aren't necessarily always like that even tho sometimes they are