[Ads-l] Shes's a "Karen" - new to me = a mean meme

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jul 8, 2020, at 1:03 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> victimology game
> 
> Do you mean, "_victimization_ game"? We marginalized are better at it,
> having had _much_ more practice at that "game."
> 
> Closer to topic: Rob Dyrdek, host of Ridiculousness on MTV, uses "Debbie"
> as well as "Karen" and uses "Darrell" and "Chad" for their male
> counterparts.

“Chad” is also the avatar for sexually “successful” males within the incel (involuntary celibate/voluntarily misogynist) community. “Stacies” are the women who, for unfathomable reasons, reject the inches. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(slang)

LH

> Any connection between Dyrdek's Karen and the "standard"
> Karen is probably coincidental, since he's been using the term for the past
> ten years or so and applies it to any white female of whatever age or
> social class who "shows out" in any way whatsoever, whether as perpetrator
> or as victim.
> 
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 8:38 PM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Dr. Bethan Tovey-Walsh, don't be a Karen.  Lighten up. You're verging on
>> elder abuse. Two can play the victimology game.
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