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Every time I saw someone posting about it in a sub that was usually not political, I always played ignorant, "Karen just means cunt or bitch, right?" And would always have someone engage with it trying to explain away their misogyny. I don't know if I ever got anyone to think about it, but it felt like if I was openly critical they would've just ignored.

[–]Rationalmind 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree! I usually ask whether Karen is a new code word for bitch. When they say yes, I say that I won’t be using it then. Sometimes I go into how appalled I am that the internet perpetuates so much misogyny. Fortunately, libfems do find words like “bitch” to be problematic even though they still use them so they tend to agree with me and stop using it.