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[–]BEB 26 insightful - 1 fun26 insightful - 0 fun27 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Also, RE "Karens" - there are a few articles out now about the sudden rise of "Karen" shaming and how it's being used to stop women from speaking up. There's one in THE ATLANTIC, which used to be a prestigious US publication. There's also one in FEMINIST CURRENT.

However the Karen meme started, it's now used to shame women into silence. It's a very deliberate way of keeping women from speaking out. I even saw a Karen video on local news.

tl;dr The Karen meme is just another way to shame women into silence.

[–]VioletRemiCat, homosexual one 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Here "Karen" is used to describe any woman at all that someone disagree with, similar to "terf". It is mostly used as "all women are stupid" or "typical to all women stupidity".

[–]BEB 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's exactly it - Karen is TERF-lite.

The Karen meme is just warming the public up to not listen to those nasty TERFs once people actually find out that TERFS are only fighting for women's rights, safe spaces and sports.

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    [–]BEB 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    Heterosexual women, especially feminists, were the first and most ardent non-gay supporters of the gay rights movement. Also, most of the gay-supporting women were white, because many minority cultures in the US were (and some still are) extremely homophobic.

    How do I know? Because I was there.

    The TQ+++ are great at rewriting history, and they've rewritten women's role in gay rights because they want women to be silenced.

    Why? Because it's the Karens who are pushing back against the transgender activist agenda of men in women's hospital rooms and men in women's sports.

    Women in the US, regardless of their color, still do not have equal rights under the law. In the US, Black men got the right to vote decades before women did.

    And, by the way, there was no general definition of "white" until relatively lately. For instance, Americans of Italian descent weren't considered white.

    Please, really, do yourself a favor and step away from Queer Theory, Critical Race Theory, Post-Modernism and the rest of the poison that is being pushed to divide us further so that we are too busy moaning about our micro-identities to rise up against the billionaires who are our true oppressors.

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      [–][deleted] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      White - Hetero - Privilege - Black - Oppressed ... Homophobe, Erase, Karen, Ignore ...

      Are you taking notes from Twitter or something? FFS, you aren't even saying anything. You're just throwing out buzzwords and pretending it means something because you have no foundation at all.

      You know this is meant to NOT BE REDDIT?

      Get lost.

      [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      Honestly for all the talk the queer community does "against" cis straight white men, they completely ignore the women that raised them to be that way and the privilege they have. Also Karen isnt a slur lol, white women were fine with calling minority women funny names so honestly....who cares?

      [–]ascom 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      But it's not used like that though, is it? It has been removed from its original meaning and has been appropriated by 'progressive' white men (quelle surprise) to go in on women who they don't agree with in other words radfems and gender critical women. Object to peeing alongside a man, you're a Karen.

      [–]Gearbeta 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      While white women who call the police for no reason on people absolutely should be ridiculed and punished, there is a very real problem with people attempting to use the term "Karen" to unfairly target women. For example, this person saying that we should use the term "Karen" for women who contact HR regarding sexual harassment. (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcHk5fSXgAAavMy?format=jpg&name=large) which is really not the direction we should be going with the term "Karen". I think it's fair to call people out for being a crybully but we should absolutely be wary of people trying to co opt our legitimate grievances for malicious purposes.