Karen and the Generational Divide

[LucilleBluth]

My very good friend kept sending me TikTok videos via whatsapp and told me to get on it. I resisted but last week I decided to have a look what it was all about.

Now I’m 40, friend is 42, both white and degree educated with teenagers and primary aged DCs. It would seem that according to this app that middle aged white women are the actual devil. I’m from a working class background and friend is MC.

I’ve never seen younger people be so vitriolic against people they don’t know. It’s definitely misogyny and ageism but dressed up as being woke???

I can’t quite figure out why or where it’s coming from. Any sociological explanation for this?

Rather than worrying about words, how about spending more time on challenging bad behaviour.

And how do you propose to do that, given that any woman expressing discontent is now liable to be labelled a Karen, and ignored? Actually, worse than ignored: women are being shamed for having an opinion. The already limited scope allowed to women to challenge anything is being eroded.

Yes, if a white middle aged woman (or black for that matter) is insulted as soon as she speaks that is a problem. If she reacts she will be filmed against her will and put on youtube in some cases against English law.

It is misogynistic. It is also ageist. I am noticing more and more anger and intolerance from younger generations to older ones. It does seem to have become really acceptable to mock middle aged women in all sorts of ways.

Black agree. I think there has always been that divide (before I'm corrected!) however as discussed now incidents can be filmed/photographed, possibly edited then uploaded for the world to see. Then it's shared, liked, shared again and can go viral.

Whilst there may be some value in manning and shaming publicly the difference with the generation divide is it's now much more toxic, doesn't really allow space for engaging and debating and you end up with some 25 year old with anxiety who can't leave the house such is their affliction, cyber bullying a person 20 years their senior.

Aye, OP, misogynist and ageist to the hilt. The words change, the woman-hatred endures.