Can we please stop misusing the name "Karen"?

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Kimmio Laughterlove said:
Do the same rules apply to mocking the systemic oppressor? (I think, no they don’t, that’s the point.) Does it silence? Maybe it should.
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No the protestors are restricted if demos ... if for the republic's power ... they are totally unrestricted ... they can say anything.

Do I need to point out culperts? The powers tell us pointing is impolite unless caressing the vanity!
 
Northwind said:
I certainly hope that stereotype is long gone. If not, if being assertive gets me called bitchy, so be it.
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It's just been relabeled now to Karen and implies the "bitching" is about something insignificant - because if it's a woman and not a man with a complaint the assumption is it's not important.
 
Is Karen short for Kathryn ... a great extension of the Russian elite? I couldn't be care'n much about her given the history ...
 
The particular Catherine in my life will not answer to the name, complaining that it belongs to an elegant and beautiful Russian Empress, not a short, round, mermaid type, textile artist, motorcycle rider, kitty whisperer extraordinaire. She answers only to Cat (preferred) or Cathy. My father, dead 21 years, was the last person who ever dared call her Catherine.
 
I have a Catherine in my family and I think even her parents only called her that when they were mad. Otherwise, it was always "Cathy"
 
BetteTheRed said:
The particular Catherine in my life will not answer to the name, complaining that it belongs to an elegant and beautiful Russian Empress, not a short, round, mermaid type, textile artist, motorcycle rider, kitty whisperer extraordinaire. She answers only to Cat (preferred) or Cathy. My father, dead 21 years, was the last person who ever dared call her Catherine.
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So many perspectives that the one liners can't see the variety! Then there was the Aurora that lingered ... a ringer?

Tis all in the kitty ...
 
Northwind said:
The attitude may have preceded the label, and does need to be challenged. As we've seen here, there's more than one definition of the label floating around. How can that be useful? It only waters things down.
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White (racist) conservatives coopted the term because they don't want white women standing with the black empowerment movement, like a bunch of "liberals" - they did the same with "social justice warriors", and they're the ones using it in a sexist way, too.

If they do that just tell them, "If you're going to use it, at least use it in its proper context." Instead of feeling entitled to be on a mission to cancel the whole thing on behalf of black women and men, POC, Indigenous people, and their allies, who use it as a 2020 satirical placecard to call out attitudes and behaviours that can be traced back hundreds of years.
 
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Mental mediums are best reduced to mediocre ... in grand humility! All in lessor encounters with ethereal minds ... thin spaces?

Psyche is a dark, formless hue ... an abstract item to say least! Must be conjured ... conjugated and preferred balanced! Just to split Eire ...
 
Watch this Karen get absorbed ;3
(watch your volume, folks)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1287459191414616064

Another historically ignorant Karen being schooled by two older historians as other Karens mill and fret


For more People Defend the Lincoln Statue from Radicals In D.C., Things Get Out of Hand, Journalists Attacked
(Bonus points if anyone here recognizes who those two black historians r dressed up as)
#MutualAid
#BeNotAfraid
#SystemicWhimsey
#JoyPrivilege
#HoistedOwnPetard
#Entitlement/Privilege
 
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If you’re going to use it, use it properly - not as a thinly veiled excuse to be sexist - or, please, shut the fk up. See post #129. Also, see the latest posts in the Toxic Masculinity thread.
 
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I found this comedian on CBC Gem tonight. Then I looked up more of his work on YouTube. Is chortle still a word? Followed by, “Omg, did he just say that?” Or vice versa.

(Caution, may be offensive to some viewers. Mods, I thought it was darkly, ironically funny - but if you think it’s too much, please feel free to remove it.)

 
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Ritafee said:
A pejorative slang term can be used properly?
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Yes. It depends what it is, when it’s being said, who is saying it, why - to punch up not down when mocking - to know your own place and whether you have the right to joke about it yourself because you can relate - and how deeply people are able to go, to understand it and appreciate when it is and isn’t funny. If one isn’t capable of that kind of reflection, they shouldn’t use it.
 
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Ritafee said:
A pejorative slang term can be used properly?
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It is said that all things can happen ... given an extensive state ... thus celestial cerebral trends in mental states. Some states are in conflict ... especially the extremes of politicos.

Then "os" is a bone of contention as the parietal hard spot ...

Os --- a bone (used chiefly in Latin names of individual bones, e.g. os trapezium ).

Then there is the clipper ship running with a bone in its teeth, or the cajones of the Iberian peninsula ... sawers?
 
It's never okay to use pejorative slang towards anyone. Call out the behaviour without labels and name calling. If you have to resort to insults/name calling you've lost your argument.
 
Northwind said:
It's never okay to use pejorative slang towards anyone. Call out the behaviour without labels and name calling. If you have to resort to insults/name calling you've lost your argument.
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That’s a white colonial heteronormative way of thinking, though. Let the groups who use words that are pejorative for everybody else to use - everybody being straight white able bodied people - decide whether they can say it. Let them own it, and how to express it Ie. n word or f word. Also...there is comedy. If entitled straight able bodied white people can’t take a joke on them, they lost the argument a long time ago - and that’s really the point. But comedy has to punch up at the entitled/ oppressive source, not down - because punching down is bullying. Punching up is critique. The former is not funny, the latter can be. (Except, I suppose, when one realizes they are being culturally critiqued. But, that’s their/ our problem to sort out.) I can see myself in the pejorative/ culturally critical use of the word Karen, and a lot of women I know, and laugh at our/ my own idiocy, and not feel insulted (people who tended to forget my name called me Karen or Kate, those were the go-to names - still happens sometimes) but as a catalyst for change. If you can’t you’re not getting it.
 
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Northwind said:
It's never okay to use pejorative slang towards anyone. Call out the behaviour without labels and name calling. If you have to resort to insults/name calling you've lost your argument.
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Naming behaviour is fine IMO but not the person. Ie. That is bullying, that is abuse, etc.
 
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