Let the world take my name in vain: you can’t keep a good Karen down – The Times

A few years ago I was at a dinner where guests had to nominate their favourite superpower. Invisibility! chorused the young chaps on my table. I exchanged a look with the middle-aged woman next to me. We already have that one, guys, I remarked. They ignored us, obviously.
But now the fate of the older female to be blithely unseen seems like a blissful state of affairs compared with the eye-rolling dismissal of just about anything we have to say with one scornful phrase: OK, Karen.
In case you have missed it, my beautiful given name is now an insult, to be directed at a certain sort of middle-aged white woman who is, apparently, as entitled as she is ignorant.
Karen-shaming began as an attempt

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