The idea seems to be from some quarters that calling women in USA and UK and ??? will somehow reduce racism in the USA (and other countries?) and reduce USA police brutality against black men (what about police brutality against black women in the USA by the way?).
Is that the idea?
Or, is it something to do with a certain type of white woman being just generally a horrible person? A bit like the stuff over here about school mums driving their kids to school in big cars, that sort out thing?
They're quite different things.
In the first case, general violence and police brutality against black men in the USA. (What about the women?).
Who does this? The police it seems fairly mixed. Which says something about whatever the police are learning in their training. The violence in general. Men.
So here we have a load of women arguing about this and that (to the point of being told that 'karens' are worse than neo Nazis) and while we bicker, the spotlight is per usual not on men.
The people who commit the vast majority of violent crime in the world.
It doesn't make sense. If anyone is protected it's men, all of them, because whatever has happened, you can bet there's a woman to blame somewhere.
It's easier to blame women though, who have less power, whether that's through politics, money, social standing etc. And tell them if they say hold on a minute then they are this type of woman. The one who is responsible for all the ills of the world. And meanwhile the whole world seems next to incapable of holding men to account for anything.
It's an interesting dynamic.
And it's interesting that people can't see it.
The conversation about racism in the USA, is the context of their history, their police behaviour, their prison system, their social structures, the roles that white women and men have to play in all this are very important.
Calling white women in any number of countries a Karen because she parks her car badly is not going to help any of this surely?
Does anyone really think it will?