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GOING WILD SCHOOLIS WE'LLBEDISTRITCHAMPS! IF WEWIN TONIGHTS GAME, 11.28.2021 • B STLTODAY.COM/LIFE • STLTODAY.COM/GO SUNDAY STLLIFE ARTS + HOME + TRAVEL HELLO my name is KAREN Real Karens speak out, nicely: Please stop insulting us is also a way to shut women down, to discount their complaints: BY JANE HENDERSON St. Louis Post-Dispatch aren wants her name back. covert sexism with a modern whiff of "The Taming of the Shrew." And when real Karens try to explain how the insult goes women who exude too much privi- beyond teasing, they may receive little sympathy. Some people point out that people of color and people carefully avoid stereotypi- immigrants have suffered racism or ethnic slurs for many decades, and this pales in comparison. For years, some minorities have Anglicized their birth names to avoid slurs or discrimination. “My mother, who grew up in Nigeria, named me Karen pre- cisely because she wanted me to blend into white American society and face fewer problems in life than I would have with a foreign or a 'black-sounding' name;" K. She's tired of being the poster girl, or female Ameme, for whining white lege. In an era when most prominent cal labels, "Karen" has been on the lips of high-profile figures such as Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kim- mel. Chocolatiers embarrass her. Pastors chide her. Children won't wear her T-shirts. The stereotype is everywhere, they say. Karen Lonning of Troy, Mis- souri, finds the usage hurtful: "I don't like giving anyone my name." At first she let the insult roll off Karen Attiah wrote last year in the her. But then friends and family Washington Post. ""Karen," she said, "is not and will never be an were posting constantly on Face- book, telling her "don't get your panties in a wad" if she objected. "They are thinking it's cute," she couple of years of jokes and slurs, says, and "don't really get what it means." oppressive slur." Still, after an especially hostile If people use the name snidely, linguist Karen Van Hook says, it means they "want to shun and mock you." Other onlookers believe the label some real Karens have considered reverting to a middle name; others have lost friends. But a few Karens are pushing back, trying to rein- state it as a name in good standing. Please see KAREN, Page B4 A Christmas Making so

My local newspaper made an entire column on people named Karen being offended that people stereotype their name. Even calling it an “oppressive slur”. This is very ironic, because that is such a Karen thing to do. Take a joke, karen. | /r/FuckYouKaren


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