Are you as sick of this "Karen" insult as I am?

Well, yeah, because I always refer to “Karens” assholes or cunts.

Whenever I encounter an asshole or cunt, I immediately disengage and leave their proximity. I certainly don’t stick around and film them, that’s for sure.

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OP is a Cunt. Since we’re not using Karen anymore that’s the equivalent.

Yes, it's as racist as using the name "Shaniqua" to refer to a certain kind of woman.

It's not a slur but it IS old and worn out already. Like I said elsewhere, we already have "frau" over here, the "Karen" people seem to be either trolls or newbies.

Yes it's stupid. Karen is a boomer name, not a Gen X name.

Proof:

I hate it almost as much as "stan" and the idiots who use it.

Buzzwords and catchphrases are for the dullest of the dull.

Yes. It's unoriginal and already so played out -- so naturally it's from Reddit!

The Reddit lemmings love it though. It's about as witty as the Youtube comment section, where hundreds of sheep post "______ brought me here."

Karen will be gone in a year, if even that. Frau will persist.

Frau is so much better.

Just a reminder that gays will always be wittier.

They earned it.

OP is a Karen!

I don't mind it. I'm sick of the gay-English use of "frau" though, and it hasn't had nearly as much wide exposure.

Gretchen (DL), stop trying to make "frau" happen. It's not going to happen.

It's a little banal and probably oversaturated -- happens to all memes especially if they're popular on Reddit -- but the only reason you care, OP, is because you're a radical feminist.

R14, that's the thing. Frau is only for DL -- it's a decades-old DLism.

Karen is the flavor of the month for the annoying sheeple of Reddit and Twitter whom, as they are wont to do, take something trending and then slam everybody over the head with it, over and over and over again, until it's not only not funny, it's just annoying.

We Stan Karen

I'm never heard frau outside of DL.

If one did it would immediately out whoever said it as a Datalounge -- like The Sally Field Program or Chrissy Metz's snack purse.

OP wants to speak to the manager.

[quote]The Sally Field Program

That's "The Sally Field Programme," dear.

Sure, Karen.

We totally Stan the word Karen r17. OP is definitely a Frau and probably named Karen!

Karen is low-key misogynistic and tiresome

Since most of these women are high-key racist, good.

I'm sicker of "low-key" than I am of "Karen," and I'm as sick of "Karen" as OP is.

[quote] [R14], that's the thing. Frau is only for DL -- it's a decades-old DLism.

It's not that old. I've been here for 15 years, and it's only been used for maybe for the past ten years. And it's constantly used now. Plus, it's short for hausfrau, which obviously is not a DL term.

It probably derived from hausfrau. I've been here since 2012 and it was around when I started posting here. Still never heard anyone say it in real life.

I detest it because I had a relative named Karen. She is now deceased. But, she was the exact opposite of the stereotype. She was one of the kindest and most loving people you could meet. Just keep calling these women cunts or bitches instead of ruining a name.

Karen is racist and misogynistic.

That twitter explosion about a Karen calling the cops on a black guy in Central Park is totally racist. It makes me not care at all about BLM.

People need to say what they mean, instead of ‘Karen’ they should just say cunt. It’s easier, shorter, and doesn’t involve any particular person’s name.

If this bitch had shut her fucking mouth and walked away it would have been fine. Instead, she tried to get a black man murdered by the NYPD because she didn't want to be told to use common sense.

I'm with Sunny Hostin, who said HR needs to investigate every single interaction she has had with a person of color at her job to see if there was an abusive and racist pattern in how she dealt with people.

She committed a crime too by filing a false police report. She should do jail time as well.

There's not enough misogyny in the world. We need more.

Okay but that's for the threads about the incident, R31. We're talking about the use of "Karen," which is currently being used on at least six active Datalounge threads about six separate people.

She didn’t break the law. The man threatened her and she called the cops because of it.

She didn’t think a cop would shoot him. You are so delusional.

R23 is a big old Frau

I see Karens on this thread.

R36, not a Karen, and I actually thought the Karen meme was funny for like one minute, but like any dumb, pop song that gets overplayed on the radio, it just grates after awhile.

R29 is the Grand Wizard of DL

R38 I mean R29 has a point...

Twitter is basically: “Hey look at this white race! They ALL do this! They’re a horrible race! Don’t you dare stereotype my race though!

Two wrongs don’t make a right. I’ve given up on any solution to this race shit beyond a revolutionary action because both sides are on the defensive. It will NEVER be resolved EVER in our lifetime.

you're so right, R39.

There's a "white guy" on dl who does it all the time. He's a bore.

[quote] Twitter is basically: “

Simple solution: get off of Twitter.

Women who are Karens need to be called out. There’s no legitimate excuse for them making everyone else miserable.

I've only heard it on DL, Along with Frau in the house frau sense, so no, it makes very true statement.

Not sick of it at all, Karen!

R26, frau has definitely been around for more than 10 years here. There's an urbandictionary definition for the word from the mid-2000s which was pulled straight from here.

When I heard "frau" on DL back around 2004, when I first started posting here, I'd absolutely heard it before. It could have been on the Usenet groups AGC and ASG, but I keep thinking it was some stand-up comedian or maybe a comedian being interviewed on a late-night show.

R45 you mean this one?

frau

Stupid fat ugly older woman who posts non-stop on message boards about old lady topics, such as hummus recipes and their current object of lust. This object of obsession is usually a fugly contestant on American Idol (e.g. Taylor Hicks) or some other fug and/or gay singer, who they insist is very sexy and/or straight. Also hausfraus.

NOUN - The fraus are worthless and should be banned.

ADJECTIVE - She wasn't frau enough to join their Taylor board.

#hausfrau#hausfraus#fug#fugs#fangirl#fangirls

In an inversion of normal economic thinking, as long as the supply of Karens keeps coming, the demand for Karens will continue. And the supply seems infinite at this point. Keep 'em coming.

Yeah the Karen meme was played to death in record time, I for one would be fine with seeing it fade back into obscurity. And it can take 'OK Boomer' with it.

It's the simplified version of the stupid nicknames black Twitter would give to purported racists, any white woman who confronts a black person and gets recorded. So instead of "Subway Sally" or "Convertible Cindy" they mixed the 'Manager Hair' meme with "entitled white woman being racist".

Now some are trying (with much less success) to make "Gary" a male Karen.

It's become a way to say "white people" and specifically "white women" as a pejorative and is inherently racist and misogynistic at this point. Black Twitter also uses "yt" or some similar shorthand to refer to "white people".

It's really been beaten into the ground and yes, there's been an influx of twats from Twitter here lately that started with Muriel changing the posting requirements and getting rid of Karma. These new posters are mostly the ones posting Daily Mail links and who use specific Twitter words in their thread titles and posts that out them almost immediately.

Very herd mentality and it's overplayed, overused, and much like other Twitter wit, is used by idiots who think it gives them a witty personality when in reality it just marks them as banal unfunny sheep.

I don't even know what OK boomer means. I don't want to know.

I don't like "millennial" either. Most of all because it's an ugly word and people who use it look (& sound) smug.

[quote]These new posters are mostly the ones posting Daily Mail links

People like you who sneer at people for posting DM links are so absurd. Most of the links on DL are to the Daily Mail (or youtube)...you need to get a handle on your perspective.

R52 I'm sorry you feel called out because you post Daily Mail links. You are incorrect. Most of the bad posts on the DL feature DM links. Daily Mail was always the first rag of note to jump on any "Karen"-style meme in an attempt to make their headlines viral.

People have been making “Karen from finance” type jokes here in Australia for like 20 years... it was thoroughly played out long before it became twitter fodder and yes, I’m absolutely sick of it

NOPE

It's exhausting. This isn't Twitter.

R56, it is exhausting, but Karen won't last. It'll die off just like the insipid OK Boomer meme.

R2 How did you do that?

Awe, poor straight white women 😰

Karens are NEVER radical feminists

Most overused meme in history. So fucking sick of how tired it is.

HBO’s Avenue 5 has a character basin the meme. Unfortunately it’s not a great show.

OP - perhaps you should demand to speak to Muriel's manager.

However they begin all these dumbass catchphrases get run into the ground by the stupid and unimaginative

Hi Karen!