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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Karens” are only white women.  From dictionary.com:

Karen is a pejorative slang term for an obnoxious, angry, entitled, and often racist middle-aged white woman who uses her privilege to get her way or police other people’s behaviors.[/quote]

Karen is a pejorative used to demean any middle aged woman whether or not her compliant is valid (and often it is). It’s let’s go Brandon for middle-aged white women—just shut up, we don’t care what you think. Invented by Incels on Reddit and adopted widely by black women after the (horrible) Amy Cooper incident. [/quote]

I disagree. Not all middle-aged white women are deemed a Karen, only the ones exhibiting Karen-behavior, which has included young white women.

-middle-aged white woman[/quote]

I have seen middle aged white women deemed Karens (by other white people) for things that have nothing to do with white privilege. Like I've seen women called a Karen for complaining to customer service for valid reasons (like lost luggage or a product that doesn't work). I've also heard people say that a middle-aged white woman "looks like a Karen" because she is has a certain hair cut, dresses in a uncool or dowdy way, or has a middle-aged body (i.e. gains some menopause weight). All of this is just agism/misogyny, but the people using the Karen term this way have found a socially acceptable way to express those feelings about older women.

I'm glad you haven't experienced this. I haven't either. But I've seen it enough to be wary of the term except as deployed by POC to describe a woman who is exploiting white privilege. Pretty much any other application of the term is likely veiled misogyny.[/quote]

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