Column: Is the 'Karen' meme sexist? Maybe, but it's also apt (via latimesopinion)
in the restaurant manager’s face when he asks her to change tables to maintain social distancing. Because Karen is white, she faces few meaningful repercussions. Embarrassing videos posted on social media is usually as bad as it gets for Karen.
This is the subversive genius of the meme. It’s not especially vicious, but with luck it causes all the Karens out there to examine the way they move through the world. The Karen meme exists for the amusement of those who take pleasure in watching the privileged take themselves down. It is observational, darkly funny and racially pointed: We see your privilege, even if you don’t. It’s a patronizing term, though, inescapably tinged with sexism: Karens are crazy. Karens are hysterical. Two white men in a Sherman Oaks Target objected to being asked to put on mask. Why weren’t they Karens? Because instead of asking for the manager, they broke the employee’s arm and were charged with battery. But where’s the meme for that kind of guy?, but I get why people of color are rarely included in the meme. Karen behavior is a lot more likely to end badly for someone who isn’t white.Compare the case of Caren Turner, the white port commissioner who was treated politely by New Jersey state police even as she berated and threatened them, toIn 2015, Bland was pulled over by a Texas State trooper on what is known as a “pretextual stop.” He made up a reason to pull her over, then demanded she put out her cigarette.“I will light you up!” the cop yelled, before wrestling her to the ground, arresting her and taking her to jail, where she died in her cell 13 days later.What happened to Turner after she ranted at two New Jersey cops on the side of a highway, telling them “You may shut the [expletive] up?”
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