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What history of oppression does the term "Karen" have associated with it? The N word and "faggot" both have centuries of violence behind them.
by damnyou 6y ago
What history of oppression does the term "Karen" have associated with it? The N word and "faggot" both have centuries of violence behind them.
- ALittleLight 6y agoI'm not aware of a time requirement for a term to qualify as a slur. It seems pretty straightforward that "Karen" does qualify though. You generalize the behavior of a group (women, housewives, etc) and describe them with a pejorative. Adult women have a right to complain about things and report things if they think they are illegal. That some number of women may have filed false or exaggerated reports doesn't give you or others license to dismiss everyone of a similar demographic.
- damnyou 6y agoIn my part of the world, the term "slur" necessarily denotes a history of oppression. Yours might be different.
- ALittleLight 6y agoThe defense that "this slur was recently coined" doesn't strike me as that compelling. "Karen" plays on long standing stereotypes of women as hysterical or nagging. The name-as-insult is new, but the stereotypes are not.
- soulofmischief 6y agoI use the term Chad just as often. We're talking about common societal stereotypes and not slurs at all. When you have 8 billion people, you start to see patterns in personalities. Karen is one such observed pattern in modern society. You don't want to die on this hill, bud.