Kids on the internet act like anything short of allowing someone to spit in your food is asking too much.
this is so true. i remember a woman talking about how her grandpa is "like a male karen, but a good one" because of how he treated his hospital bills. like when they were needlessly expensive, he called the hospital and asked for the exact scalpel that the doctor used to perform surgery on him because if the treatment was so expensive, he might as well deserve to take home the instruments used on him. all i could think was that, if a woman did this, everyone would accuse her of being an evil karen who deserves public shame all across social media platforms.
> Kids on the internet act like anything short of allowing someone to spit in your food is asking too much.
this is so true. i remember a woman talking about how her grandpa is "like a male karen, but a good one" because of how he treated his hospital bills. like when they were needlessly expensive, he called the hospital and asked for the exact scalpel that the doctor used to perform surgery on him because if the treatment was so expensive, he might as well deserve to take home the instruments used on him. all i could think was that, if a woman did this, everyone would accuse her of being an evil karen who deserves public shame all across social media platforms.
Right. Nothing misgenders TIMs more than the respect and empathy they garner from too online people for bullying minimum wage workers.
Women have got to stop being so afraid of being called stupid names for asserting any fraction of dominance or respect. Kids on the internet act like anything short of allowing someone to spit in your food is asking too much.
There was a picture floating around Twitter that had thousands of likes with the caption "Karens in the wild." The picture showed four women who were over 40 laughing and eating dinner together. That's it. That was the crime. Having a short, easily manageable haircut and being older than 39. The poster admitted they didn't do anything rude or treat anyone poorly. They just existed when the photographer would prefer they didn't.
It really doesn't matter where the term "Karen" came from and what intentions it was started with. It's now just another way for men to silence and embarrass women for being too opinionated, demanding respect, or aging.
I worked in retail and while we did have snotty or demanding female customers, the men were always the scariest. Women would say they wanted to talk to my manager. Men would talk about wanting to beat me up while calling me b**** and c***. Odd how there's no Karen equivalent for that kind of male behavior.
If TRAs truly saw TIMs as women, they'd hate them just as much as they hate us.