How did some stupid moron get the bright idea that the OK sign is racist?
I'm so over the Karen thing already. I've been called Karen on social media several times just because someone disagreed with me. It already has evolved beyond the "whistleblower" meaning.
So, the "OK" sign is racist, and a few other words have been redefined, and now it's...\
KAREN.
[video=youtube;IXqr4_426lY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXqr4_426lY[/video]
Agreed. It's getting overused and misused, a la "snowflake". Even labeling whistleblowers as Karen is a misuse. I'd argue that it's not just "the left" redefining it, but everyone (but hey, you gotta get those YouTube "likes" for you're commentary channel...)I'm so over the Karen thing already. I've been called Karen on social media several times just because someone disagreed with me. It already has evolved beyond the "whistleblower" meaning.
Like so many other words/labels they loose the intended effect.
I'm so over the Karen thing already. I've been called Karen on social media several times just because someone disagreed with me. It already has evolved beyond the "whistleblower" meaning.
She's not a 'whistleblower', a Karen is a woman who can't get what she wants from a customer-facing employee so she tries to browbeat the employee into submission by escalating the complaint to the manager. The only thing necessary to put Karens on the trailer would be for the manager to back up his/her employee and explain to Karen why she cannot have what she wants, but managers usually just want the problem to go away so often undercut their employee and either give in entirely or proffer some other inducement to shut Karen up
What keeps the Karens rolling out the strategy again and again is that it works (for them)
There are different 'incarnations'. Karen is also the one calling the police on everybodyShe's not a 'whistleblower', a Karen is a woman who can't get what she wants from a customer-facing employee so she tries to browbeat the employee into submission by escalating the complaint to the manager. The only thing necessary to put Karens on the trailer would be for the manager to back up his/her employee and explain to Karen why she cannot have what she wants, but managers usually just want the problem to go away so often undercut their employee and either give in entirely or proffer some other inducement to shut Karen up
What keeps the Karens rolling out the strategy again and again is that it works (for them)
This is just totally wrong on so many levels. With the incompetence companies put on the front lines it is more often that they are in the wrong. They don't know allowed substitutions or deletions etc. often going completely against what the training says. Nothing wrong with getting a manager involved. Why is that even a negative thing? No wonder we are such pu****s in the minds of much of the world that haggles over every cup of coffee.
A general rant!
And this Karen bit, every real life Karen I have met was a sweet girl. I'm sure there are exceptions as there are bad folks with all popular names, including Jesus. Why sully the name Karen with this childish name calling. There is just no logical reason to do so. It might be slightly different if there was a real life case of a person named Karen doing something to become the poster child for this but all I can see is a bunch of keyboard warriors started what is just ridiculous...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technol...-memes-reddit-twitter-carolyn-goodman/611104/
“Karen began as a Black meme used to describe white women who tattle on Black kids’ lemonade stands,” the community organizer Gwen Snyder tweeted last week. “White boys stole it and turned it into code for ‘b**ch.’”
But the definition is not determined by a dictionary or a 'source'. The definition is determined by its use. Vocabulary like this is constantly evolving, and there is not a 'correct' definition. The correct way to use it is whichever way(s) it's being used, and the whistleblower/tattletale is the only way I happen to have seen it used. I'm familiar with the "speak to the manager" Karen definition, but I have never personally seen it used that way.Not buying it.
That article was light on citations, relying on one tweet from a SJW/ANTIFA Twit.
But the definition is not determined by a dictionary or a 'source'. The definition is determined by its use. Vocabulary like this is constantly evolving, and there is not a 'correct' definition. The correct way to use it is whichever way(s) it's being used, and the whistleblower/tattletale is the only way I happen to have seen it used. I'm familiar with the "speak to the manager" Karen definition, but I have never personally seen it used that way.
Karen has just become a placeholder name for a specific type of person, it could have just as easily been some other girl's name. It's like gutter-bunny or Fred for people riding bicycles who don't know what they're doing, or indeed like Fudd for a certain type of gun owner - its a form of shorthand for a certain type of problem, giving it a name everyone implicitly understands
And during the rant, you forgot to castigate us for assuming Karen's gender