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In reply to the discussion: Poll for those who supported Hillary in '16 primary and the use of label "Karen" [View all]mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Are you complaining there's no generic name like 'Ken' for men who act like this?
If not, I would say that's more an oversight or coincidence than anything else.
Pretty sure it was just actual name of a women who was filmed being racist early on, it was like 'Campground Karen' or something (there was also 'Barbeque Becky' in Oakland, CA called the PoPo on the black family barbequing w/charcoal on the lawn at Lake Merritt ... Becky was her real name).
People have just arbitrarily stopped finding out the real name of the person and applying another word to match with it like 'Campground' and using a previous offender named Karen, as a generic.
There probably was just no famous male version, otherwise we'd call these racist dudes 'Ken' or whoever it was. I think that's totally arbitrary.
I don't condone referring to women as Karen just for standing up for themselves, for the record. This moniker should be reserved for racists since that's the association everyone made early on.
Being a "Karen" means being a female racist, caught on video.
What's wrong with having a simple name for the phenomenon?
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