Don’t Be a Karen: Be a Joan
<p>A common social phenomenon is that a term will get washed down by misuse, until it loses its meaning. Not every angry woman is a Karen.</p>
<p>A Karen is an entitled (usually white) woman who acts like the main character in her own movie, asserting her rights while clearly trampling on the rights of others. The <em>usually white</em> part matters, because white women have oppressed other people — notably Black men — while claiming their rights.</p>
<p>As a trans woman, I had my own encounter with a Karen in a public restroom at a Regal movie theater, back in 2018. I had finished peeing and was washing my hands. My partner, a five-foot-tall Chinese-American nonbinary person, was with me, and we were chatting away. (I took for granted they always came with me when I used a public restroom. It was years before I realized they did that because they were protective of me).</p>
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