New to Twitter, feel sick RE 'Karen' meme

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How have we sunk so low? Since when did women start bashing other women so vilely?

I started on Twitter for career reasons (what a joke) and the people in the industry are full-on woke. I want to cry. Karen as a cruel stereotype?

White person (typified as a woman called Karen), who demands priority at all times, a “can I speak to your supervisor” person. Would claim to be being victimised. We’d once have called such a person “a bit of of a twat” but in these BLM days more an entitled whinger on FB

Well it’s certainly a step up from calling women names for doing perfectly normal things like having sex. I’m not sure where you’ve spent your life but there have always been women who attack other women with misogynistic name calling.

Feel sick? While I don't like name calling you need to get a grip if this is bothering you that much. Twitter is a cesspit anyway. You want to cry? Is something else going on that is affecting you? I feel like this is kind of an extreme reaction to the term 'Karen'.

Well I probably have spent my life under a rock (the past 10 years anyhow)... but educated women? Nice, smiley 'progressive' women? I thought we were all trying to bekind. Perhaps rock is better, give me back rock.

You feel sick and want to cry over a meme? Seriously?
I get some people are offended by it and pretty much everything else but it's a meme... get a grip

You’re being ridiculous. The Karen meme isn’t new; it’s been around years.

Sounds to me like you need to step back from the internet.

Come on MN instead at lots of aggressively unsympathetic posts instead. [See posts above).

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They are ironically taking the piss out of Priti Patel.

I think Twitter is not going to spark much joy for you tbh

One of my favourite authors is on one of those threads.

OP, if memes offend you perhaps Twitter is not for you. I am what certain sections of society would term a snowflake and I can't even begin to get offended by the Karen thing. Or 'snowflake', for that matter.

I had heard about the Karen meme but largely ignored it, thinking it was simply a rehash of the old Essex crap. I find 'white women claiming to be victimised' an outrageous excuse to ignore what women say.

In my life, I never meet people who say these things. I don't hear outrageous misogynistic tropes or slurs. Ever. I mix with a range of people, mainly working class, some middle.

Follow different people on Twitter.

The only women I see being called Karen on Twitter are white American women having meltdowns because they met someone being black in public.

I kinda think they deserve it.

Sick and want to cry?

Seriously? Jeezo.

Op I think you have spectacularly missed the point of the meme.

I am flakey, not because I'm a snowflake but because it feels like I've lifted the bonnet of a shiny, gorgeous second-hand jag to find the engine is grimy and wheezy with a 50-a-day habit.

Twitter isn't for me, sure is the lesson I've learned.

Have a look in the feminism section OP. There's a thread discussing this and what it's use really means. It's interesting and worrying.

Oh and Twitter is an absolute shit hole. I find my mental health deteriorates if I go on there too much. It's so vicious at times and really worrying how some people think and even worse think is acceptable to say.

It has been used to describe Jess Phillips too. It is a misogynist put down. No male equivalent has gained the same traction because only women’s behaviour is problematic. Designed to silence women, especially older ones who are pretty marginalised already for daring to exist.

Oh is there Ygritte? I did a search to see if had come up. Must have missed it.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3860225-Please-can-we-talk-about-using-the-name-Karen-as-an-insult

Here.

https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/3929329-AIBU-Karen-is-about-class-why-are-people-so-class-blind

Another here

You can be assertive and stand up for yourself without being rude.

A Karen is rude. They’re entitled and they throw tantrums when they don’t get their own way.

If someone is going to behave like this then yes, I will refer to them as a Karen.

OP do you identify as a Karen?

Designed to silence women, especially older ones who are pretty marginalised already for daring to exist. I'm sure this is why I find it appalls me so much, lol. I think also the fact that these are 'real' people in 'real' jobs that express these opinions not some boring cellar-bound nerd in the arse-end-of-nowhere I could comfortably ignore. I am disappointed that the people I aspire to and the industry I'd love to be part of is so full of vile shit. And they are the educated ones.

I've asked for help at work, sought the aide of a superior to help with a problem work colleague, questioned my boss at a group question time - on all occasions I was accused of being 'rude'. Is this being a 'Karen'? If so I am her.

I've been overlooked, underrated and treated disrespectfully, at school, at university and at work because of my accent, and complained about it. Am I a whining Karen? If so, I am her.