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LizBeth

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7. You know where it started. An asshole male GF broke up with him, went on Reddit

Reply to allegorical oracle (Reply #4)

Mon Aug 7, 2023, 09:30 AM

Aug 2023

Last edited Mon Aug 7, 2023, 10:43 AM - Edit history (1)

and started the whole thing dissing the GF for daring to break up with him and morphed from there. First with customer service then with racism now it is if a woman simply opens her mouth. And now I am seeing videos people purposely trying to push women for a karen video or calling them a karen when really they were the issue all along and putting it on the net

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Don't Call Her 'Karen' [View all] Hestia Aug 2023 OP

LTTE: Re "The Impossible Bind of the Karen Label" Hestia Aug 2023 #1

Thank you. The whole Karen meme is ageist and misogynistic. LisaM Aug 2023 #3

+++++ Never understood precisely what the meme referred to, much less how it got allegorical oracle Aug 2023 #4

You know where it started. An asshole male GF broke up with him, went on Reddit LizBeth Aug 2023 #7

Exactly obamanut2012 Aug 2023 #8

Right. Kinda like B is not a sexist word cause we call men that too. LizBeth Aug 2023 #11

Any more today I will be having conversation with women and we will go off on the 'karen' LizBeth Aug 2023 #10

I know exactly what haircut you mean prodigitalson Aug 2023 #16

I have been saying this for months. Ask to many questions about my health an labeled a Karen LizBeth Aug 2023 #6

Thank you canetoad Aug 2023 #2

When I googled this story, up popped an anti-Karen rebuttal. LisaM Aug 2023 #5

Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2023 #14

This isn't the only example of women having their lives ruined because of a false narrative. yardwork Aug 2023 #9

Agree Johnny2X2X Aug 2023 #12

Then call them racists, bigots, vile human beings. This started with some ass on Reddit LizBeth Aug 2023 #13

"The public has an obligation to get these situations right" Act_of_Reparation Aug 2023 #17

Social media will be the death of this country Sympthsical Aug 2023 #15