CAREN Act To Stop Racially Motivated Police Calls Proposed By California Lawmaker

I haven't really come across it much, I'm asking if that's what people are saying MawB as to why they call people "Karen"

Karens of the world unite

Sue for defamation of character.

As for CAREN

Maybe there is a way to change it to CARE instead

Maybe suggest it?

They seem to have named the campaign to link with the name though.
Naughty.

Starblaze

I haven't really come across it much, I'm asking if that's what people are saying MawB as to why they call people "Karen"

By asking in that way Starblaze you are admitting of the possibility that all Karens are whatever the trope says they are.
Can’t you see that?
What do you think the following have in common-
Karen Carpenter
Karen Blixen (author of Put of Africa)
Karen Nyberg (astronaut)
Karen Dotrice (actor, played Mrs Banks in Mary Poppins)
Karen Putzer , Italian Alpine skier
Professor Karen Uhlenbeck, mathematician and founder of modern geometric analysis
Karen Barber, English ice dancer and bronze medalist in 1983
I would say nothing at all, other than their Christian name!

Out of Africa

No, I was just asking. Sorry for causing offense

Callistemon

I think they're on a losing streak here, Gagajo
Sorry.

Calling these people "Karen" was a big mistake by whoever decided it was a good idea.
It will antagonise more people than will be sympathetic, unfortunately.

Let what goes on in America should stay in America.
If it should start over here then I hope anyone rying it will be charged with wasting police time.

I'm not surprised to hear that Ooopsminty. It's along the same lines as 'OK Boomer'. They're used about our age group, not BY our age group. I'm quite sure the students at my school will have called me a Karen at some point. I really DGAF. Younger generations always think they know it all and reinvent the wheel. It's just how life is.

I could add more Karens whom I know or am related to.
Come to think of it, most with degrees.
And one is Japanese.
How does she fit in?

Hmmm, Callistemon, I know a young Karen (she has old parents, older than me even!) and unfortunately she fits the stereotype.

My late SiL however, was also a Karen and as an older, kind, very laid back black lady could not have been less like it.

Oopsminty ?

Callistemon

I think they're on a losing streak here, Gagajo
Sorry.

Calling these people "Karen" was a big mistake by whoever decided it was a good idea.
It will antagonise more people than will be sympathetic, unfortunately.

Let what goes on in America should stay in America.
If it should start over here then I hope anyone rying it will be charged with wasting police time.

Ok, boomer-

Hahaha rosecarmel

On second thought, calling them Karen makes complete sense-

Let what goes on in America stay in America
.

Oh if only.

Oh dear, rosecarmel
How sad.

I am not a boomer nor a Karen!

Why not call them Rosecarmels?

Isn't Carmel in California?

Caution Against Racially Motivated Episodes of Libel.

Caution Against Racially Motivated Exploitative Libel ?

Yes.

Any acronym but the name of thousands of innocent women.

Riverwalk

Of course it's an important issue which in my opinion is trivialised by giving it a woman's name, rather than a proper legal description!

So you can use an innocuous name to describe a woman who is mouthy, or awkward, aggressive, or blatantly racist?

It's just so sexist!

Absolutely!

It's derogatory, why give something derogatory a woman's name?
What's that all about?
I remember many years ago having to attend one of those God awful team building events
You had to write down your name and others had to discuss the connotations that your name held
It was rather humiliating
My name suggests a 'fluffy' person
I'm actually not

An unpleasant trend, Dollymc2

Callistemon

Why not call them Rosecarmels?

Isn't Carmel in California?

Or simply American -- as previously suggested- Since they are one in the same-

Which suggests all Karens are the same- As well as all African Americans-

I suppose if people have small feet they don't mind habitually sticking them in their mouth ..

rosecarmel

Callistemon

Why not call them Rosecarmels?

Isn't Carmel in California?

Or simply American -- as previously suggested- Since they are one in the same-

Which suggests all Karens are the same- As well as all African Americans-

I suppose if people have small feet they don't mind habitually sticking them in their mouth ..

. Bring obscure again I fear.

Whoever mentioned Odontipedology?