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Teo · 6 answers · 11mo

I feel like the meaning of "Karen" has become diluted from its original meaning. What's your understanding of who/what a "Karen" embodies?

with words like 'woke', eventually the boomers and the guy on the TV news get a hold of it and apply it where it doesn't really belong and make it lose meaning through overuse... I don't think it's quite happened with 'Karen' yet (at least not on the same level) because while it's being applied to more people, the underlying principle is the same - it always comes back to unwarranted entitlement - maybe it started with white women and maybe this is where the 'dilution' is, but there are males, black people, etc. showing their ass at the deli counter all the time and the label applies to them too, but then I don't really see the dilution and have felt that way from the start about black Karens and such, one of them gave birth to me

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