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(I forget the Dianes ... sorry Dianes, you too had it rough in the 80s)

sarahell, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link

more of a specific instance, but never forget what Joe Blows went through. that wasn't fair to ya, Blows!

let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link

This thread has gone to the dogs. Why would you spend so much time discussing this name? You guys are a bunch of Karen tarriers.

πŸ”« (peace, man), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link

and of course, above all, Joey Corona we are all thinking about you right now

let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link

i always worry about someone with my first and last name doing something awful and then the name becomes infamous

treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link

but re, this being a "humorless woke belief," i don't think so. i'm defending 'karens' against the scolding hoardes of wokes

treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link

I could re-write Nick Cave's "John Finn's wife" to be about you treesh

sarahell, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link

I never knew calling out sexism was a tenet of conservatism

brimstead, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link

i think the criticism, treesh, is that there are so many things jn the world that also aren't quite fair. the psychological damage to irl "karens" is probably pretty low on the list

let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link

or at least, that's my (mild) criticism

let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link

and of course, above all, Joey Corona we are all thinking about you right now


RIP

Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link

xp, well that's why i haven't started a national campaign to stamp out this prejudice. i just think it's a bit hypocritcal for progressives to fall in love with stereotypes about shrill women who complain too much.

treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:51 (four years ago) link

i can see that, but also understand where it came from (see Branwell's post)

let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link

i hate people who speak down to service workers but it's not only women that do that

treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link

i don't think an unfunny stereotype helps, really. even if it's "punching up" sometimes. that's the conservative part of my post.

treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link

anyone have a cite for Branwell's etymology, the origins I see give the redditor complaining about his ex and a Dane Cook joke.

by the light of the burning CitroΓ«n, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link

I have seen evidence that "Karen" has already made the jump from woke Twitterites to broke Facebook whites.

πŸ”« (peace, man), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link

i hate people who speak down to service workers but it's not only women that do that

― treeship., Tuesday, May 5, 2020 10:58 AM (fifty-eight seconds ago)

you don't say???

sarahell, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link

i used to see it as Carols and then it mass stuck to Karens around the peak of all the videos of white women calling the cops.

Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link

i think we can all agree that stock jokes about "Carlos" would not be appreciated on the left

treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link

ppl have been using generic names as pejoratives for a long time and were using a few different old white ppl names for a while before it coalesced around 'karen' and got used much more widely. i have heard ppl use kevin and stephen and susan, almost anything works if you say it the right way, bc it's really all about tone

The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link

Really? I feel like BBQ Becky (et al) peaked at least a year (if not two) before Karen got coined

sarahell, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link

even just using people's actual name can be ironically disrespectful and cutting, there's a lot of grey area

The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link

Every Dick, Tom and Harry...

pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link

"barbecue becky" is at least alliterative. that one is approved.

treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link

There's different ones in different countries - not surprisingly.

Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link

i thought bbq becky was a leftover from becky with the good hair and it all segued from any old bland white name---> to karens.

Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link

the Karens and Beckys dodged bullets growing up

My friend Becky who was in middle school when "Baby Got Back" came out begs to differ!

dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link

all the white women calling the cops had alliterative nicknames. that was the idea. xpost

Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link

wait there was an actual "barbecue becky," a woman who called to complain about a black family barbecuing in a park. (charcoal grills weren't permitted in the park). her photo got out and got plastered all over memes. not sure how i feel about that.

treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link

BBQ Becky was "Becky" because it was alliterative. Most of the sequels to BBQ Becky were also alliterative, aka Permit Patty

sarahell, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link

yeah the becky in the sir mixalot was brought up in a becky/karen article about original becky.

Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link

we've probably done "should non-famous people be shamed on the internet?" a dozen times in this thread alone already

dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link

the becky from baby got back isn't white

treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link

and also is fictional

treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link

defending bad white women is indeed conservative.

Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link

archetypes are reductive, no need to be such a treesh about it (sorry treesh)

The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link

xp BBQ Becky incident happened about 10 blocks from where I live ...

sarahell, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link

wait there was an actual "barbecue becky," a woman who called to complain about a black family barbecuing in a park. (charcoal grills weren't permitted in the park). her photo got out and got plastered all over memes. not sure how i feel about that.

― treeship., Tuesday, May 5, 2020 11:10 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

feel pretty good about it personally

COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link

???the becky in the sir mix a lot video isn't white???

Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link

the becky from baby got back isn't white

― treeship., Tuesday, May 5, 2020 2:11 PM (forty seconds ago)

...

I'll go check but this is wildly wrong iirc

dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link

the Karens and Beckys dodged bullets growing up

My friend Becky who was in middle school when "Baby Got Back" came out begs to differ!

― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, May 5, 2020 11:09 AM (two minutes ago)

uh, that song came out in 1992 ... my post was about 70s and 80s popular music ... your friend is a millenial, and most of the stereotypical Karens are Gen-X women, so ...

sarahell, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link

oh good, it took only 1 second to confirm that she most certainly is

dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link

treeship...

Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link

"barbecue becky" is at least alliterative. that one is approved.

same with donkey dick dale

let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link

maybe he thinks brunettes aren't white?

Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link

in the lyrics. unless "becky" is the addressee and not the girl they're talking about.

Oh, my, God Becky, look at her butt
It is so big, she looks like
One of those rap guys' girlfriends.
...
I mean gross, look
She's just so, black

treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link

xp to sarahell, I only meant popular culture came for the Beckys well before 2010 or w/e

dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link

i've never seen the video for that. i cannot be held responsible for music videos made before the year 2000.

treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link

treeship...

― Yerac, Tuesday, May 5, 2020 6:14 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

πŸ”« (peace, man), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link


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