• Cid Vicious@sh.itjust.works
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    15 days ago

    The Karen thing is weird to me because it’s a pretty typical name and I know multiple karens. But it must be generational since it appears to have had a dramatic drop off in the 80s.

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      15 days ago

      Yeah it’s kind of an ageist thing. Gen x was like the last time that name was common.

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      15 days ago

      I have an aunt named Karen. I have never asked her what she thought about that name being a sort of slur now.

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      14 days ago

      I only know one millennial Karen and she’s cool as all hell.

      The generational divide is the point though. The archetypal Karen is a gen x woman being really entitled to a gen z service worker