Good women are young, quiet, have pretty long hair (never dyed a unnatural colour though!) and never speak up about being mistreated, ever. You want to complain about a genuine problem? Sorry, you’re a Karen. Ask people to social distance? Karen. Nicely tell people to please be quiet during a movie? Karen. Ripped off by corporate greed and want a refund? Karen.
Be silent, be feminine and behave, woman.
It sucks because it actually used to describe real harrassment that black service workers experience. Now it’s just “Mouthy mom aged women with short dyed hair”
I’ve even seen a male black service worker be called a “male Karen” I shit you not.
That sounds way funnier than what it really is lol
Obviously it morphed quite a bit but I feel like I remember this being the origin of “Karen”: https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/nintendo-switch-karen
There were uses in the same vein before that, from wikipedia:
I remember at the time the Dane Cook special that had this joke was super popular, I heard people quote the joke before the term became as widespread.
You’ve just unlocked bad memories of the aughts.