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Words hurt: unmasking of the morphing middle-aged Karen – Sydney Morning Herald
The ”Karen” who refused to wear a mask at Bunnings has pulled the focus back to a mocking, some say sexist, stereotype that is now part of the vernacular.
Karens whiteness is important – the trope entered the mainstream via the United States as a way of mocking and calling out the phenomenon of privileged, racist women complaining about, or calling the police on, black people who were going about their business.
One of the most egregious examples of Karen-ing was the case of Amy Cooper. The New York woman was walking her dog in Central Park on May 25 when a fellow walker asked her, perfectly reasonably, to leash her dog.
A still from the May 25 …
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