In 2001, my main task in Nicaragua was to be a “Karen”: the obnoxious, entitled white woman who uses her privilege to get her way. Although I was only 25, I was able to lend my white face, my American accent and my pushy “get-me-your-manager” skills to women’s cooperatives to gain them access to and help them navigate the Nicaraguan bureaucratic system. This was during the neoliberal years in Nicaragua, a time when the women we worked with – poor, working women – were simply dismissed by virtually any institution. Following on the popular Sandinista Revolution of the 1980s led by […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/0a/1080122018_0:213:2048:1365_1200x675_80_0_0_4177b6588f22ef49e7a30526312b45be.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Daria Bedenko. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/society/202009261080576896-who-will-be-karens-of-the-future-graphs-show-possible-meme-names-for-different-decades/ The catch phrase: “I want to speak to the manager!”, alongside “white privilege” and constantly complaining – this is what the name “Karen” has absorbed in recent years, becoming a byword for online mockery of entitled and annoying white women. Reddit user T1m_Burr analyzed data from the US Social Security Administration to try to determine what names will replace “Karen” as a pejorative for a privileged white woman who is constantly annoyed and demands to speak to the manager. In different decades, his graphs show, various names could potentially supplant Karen on the entitlement […]
Beware of the ‘Covid Karens’ who believe they are official mask enforcers. A man with medical exemptions was harassed by multiple ‘Covid Karens’ for entering a California Rite Aid drug store without a face mask on. David Rodriguez captured the harassment on his cell phone. The hysterical women lashed out at the maskless man and even demanded he provide proof that he has a medical condition. TRENDING: BLM Protester Fatally Shot in Austin: ‘People Who Hate Us’ Are ‘Too Big of P-ssies to Actually Do Anything About It’ The Rite Aid employee shut the Karens down and told them he cannot […]
The Washington Post global opinions editor has sparked outrage with a tweet saying white women are “lucky” protesters are not calling for “revenge” against them, for helping to elect Donald Trump and suppressing black voices. “The lies & tears of White women hath wrought: The 1921 Tulsa Massacre. Murder of Emmet Till. Exclusion of Black women from feminist movements. 53% of white women voting for Trump,” Karen Attiah tweeted. The Tulsa Massacre was a 1921 racist attack by white Oklahoma residents, in which dozens of black citizens were killed. Emmet Till was 14 when she was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 […]