• CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    I knew a Karen that started going by her middle name when “Karen” became a thing. She just didn’t want to deal with it.

  • Cid Vicious@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    The Karen thing is weird to me because it’s a pretty typical name and I know multiple karens. But it must be generational since it appears to have had a dramatic drop off in the 80s.

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      6 days ago

      I only know one millennial Karen and she’s cool as all hell.

      The generational divide is the point though. The archetypal Karen is a gen x woman being really entitled to a gen z service worker

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    6 days ago

    You can pretend a meme makes you right, or you could switch from dick to cock and from Karen to any other word that isn’t 2 million people’s first name.

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      6 days ago

      Lots of people suffer far more discrimination for having non standard names. There have been studies showing a name can lose you a job opportunity, and I’ve been discriminated for my name since middle school. My name is Chatoyer, a French name pronounced with a sh sound.

      So I’ve heard shit used instead, I’ve heard people confused by the shorted version sounding like shat, and at one job where they tried to send me to a customer onsite, when he heard my name he yelled "The hell kinda name is that?!"and hung up, losing the company business (good riddance though).

      Get over it. Karen’s have it easy.