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Please stop using a very common name as a derogative! It's insulting to the women who have that name. Also, as you noticed, there is no male version of it. It's

Please stop using a very common name as a derogative! It's insulting to the women who have that name. Also, as you noticed, there is no male version of it. It's a decidedly sexist meme that shouldn't be promoted.

rnjesus 5y ago
what a chad thing to say
- fauigerzigerk 5y ago
  Yes there are other memes using common first names and I don't like any of them. Not one bit. Not all of them are equally insulting though.
  - gspr 5y ago
    Chill.
theelous3 5y ago
Kevin over here giving sass.
- fauigerzigerk 5y ago
  Good for you. Someone dear to me finds it extremely hurtful, which is why I commented. Also, I think the Kevin meme originally came from a comedy. The connotations aren't quite as nasty and serious as the Karen ones. But there are definitely other very negative name memes. I don't like any of it, but I fully accept that people can feel differently about it.
  - ChrisKnott 5y ago
    I actually agree, I wouldn't use it to describe someone, I thought it was OK to reference the meme in the abstract.
    - fauigerzigerk 5y ago
      I totally understand, and I certainly didn't mean to accuse you of anything. It was an emotional reaction on my part.
C19is20 5y ago
Though Billy No Mates - for the lonely - exists.
BoxOfRain 5y ago
Oh hardly, using a sterotypical name is a very common comedic device. Tarquin and Julian are out-of-touch upper class people who probably go on illegal fox hunts, Karen gets unreasonably angry over petty things at low-level customer service people who can't argue back, Doris insists on driving at 25 mph in a 60 while her husband Bernard shouts at passing children for sport. Kevin is roughly the male equivalent of Karen, while Chad is a world-reknowned cad. Billy No Mates is famous for being alone, while Johnny Foreigner occasionally struggles with idioms. Joe Public of course is usually well aware of this usage and doesn't actually think all people with these names are the sterotype they represent.
- fauigerzigerk 5y ago
  >using a sterotypical name is a very common comedic device It is, and most of these memes keep some of the levity of their comedian origins. This particular meme seems unusually nasty and serious in comparison, but maybe it's just because it hurts someone close to me.
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  - BoxOfRain 5y ago
    I think it's particularly vitriolic because it represents a deeper social issue, the bullying of underpaid customer service employees who lose their jobs if they defend themselves. The people who suffer most from "Karenish" behaviour can't call an entitled, bullying shitehawk what they are in person so it comes out as a meme. "Doris's" sluggish driving or "Tarquin's" excessive privately-educated mannerisms are merely annoying, while "Karen's" screaming and shouting at people who can't call them out is something worse. I suppose that doesn't change the fact it's a bit crappy for all the perfectly decent people called Karen out there. While I think this behaviour does need a good snarl word to call it out when it happens, perhaps "Karen" isn't it and we can do better.
- fqw3b58w4n6 5y ago
  Die in a fire
fqw3b58w4n6 5y ago
I support you and love you. HN comments are the worst

rnjesus 5y ago

what a chad thing to say

fauigerzigerk 5y ago
Yes there are other memes using common first names and I don't like any of them. Not one bit. Not all of them are equally insulting though.
- gspr 5y ago
  Chill.

theelous3 5y ago

Kevin over here giving sass.

fauigerzigerk 5y ago
Good for you. Someone dear to me finds it extremely hurtful, which is why I commented. Also, I think the Kevin meme originally came from a comedy. The connotations aren't quite as nasty and serious as the Karen ones. But there are definitely other very negative name memes. I don't like any of it, but I fully accept that people can feel differently about it.
- ChrisKnott 5y ago
  I actually agree, I wouldn't use it to describe someone, I thought it was OK to reference the meme in the abstract.
  - fauigerzigerk 5y ago
    I totally understand, and I certainly didn't mean to accuse you of anything. It was an emotional reaction on my part.

C19is20 5y ago

Though Billy No Mates - for the lonely - exists.

BoxOfRain 5y ago

Oh hardly, using a sterotypical name is a very common comedic device. Tarquin and Julian are out-of-touch upper class people who probably go on illegal fox hunts, Karen gets unreasonably angry over petty things at low-level customer service people who can't argue back, Doris insists on driving at 25 mph in a 60 while her husband Bernard shouts at passing children for sport. Kevin is roughly the male equivalent of Karen, while Chad is a world-reknowned cad. Billy No Mates is famous for being alone, while Johnny Foreigner occasionally struggles with idioms. Joe Public of course is usually well aware of this usage and doesn't actually think all people with these names are the sterotype they represent.

fauigerzigerk 5y ago
>using a sterotypical name is a very common comedic device It is, and most of these memes keep some of the levity of their comedian origins. This particular meme seems unusually nasty and serious in comparison, but maybe it's just because it hurts someone close to me.
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- BoxOfRain 5y ago
  I think it's particularly vitriolic because it represents a deeper social issue, the bullying of underpaid customer service employees who lose their jobs if they defend themselves. The people who suffer most from "Karenish" behaviour can't call an entitled, bullying shitehawk what they are in person so it comes out as a meme. "Doris's" sluggish driving or "Tarquin's" excessive privately-educated mannerisms are merely annoying, while "Karen's" screaming and shouting at people who can't call them out is something worse. I suppose that doesn't change the fact it's a bit crappy for all the perfectly decent people called Karen out there. While I think this behaviour does need a good snarl word to call it out when it happens, perhaps "Karen" isn't it and we can do better.
fqw3b58w4n6 5y ago
Die in a fire

fqw3b58w4n6 5y ago

I support you and love you. HN comments are the worst