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.
Original is imprecise.
Certainly for the blips on the graph, “Karen” predates the anti-racist meaning and can be argued to be the “origin”.
For most people, including many in the thread, the owl that posts about this occasionally, myself, we hadn’t heard of it until the spike in the graph, so that is the “origin” even if not chronologically first.
The spike is the popular origin people are referring to saying it has lost the “original” meaning since. Saying that the “original” was earlier isn’t so much a ‘dispute’ as a reframing of context. Neither is necessarily more valid until the priority of time vs spread is declared.
The origin is both anti-racist and predates the anti-racist meaning depending on context. Many point to the spike, but pointing to the clock blips is also correct.
Idk I feel like that’s less of an origin than it is a popularization. Like, if someone asked for the origin of pepe I wouldn’t say it started with 4chan edgelords even if that’s how most people were exposed to it. I’d say it started in that webcomic but was popularized and turned into something else.
Ultimately a semantic issue but 乁[ ◕ ᴥ ◕ ]ㄏ