What's Karen got to do with BBC podcast No Country For Young Women and a licence fee fight? Think early noughties Posh Spice.Īs many have stated online, while there appears to be a lot of men also ( or moreso) not wearing masks, why is it that Karen - and therefore women, not men ignoring the rules - is trending? The hairstyle is that kind of American soccer-mom haircut – blonde, highlighted and short/bobbed, maybe a little longer around the front. She is generally a middle-class white woman, with a specific haircut – a what is often called a ‘can I speak to the manager’ haircut. It started in America and is used as a catchall for a group of women who look, talk and think in a certain way, in the same way ‘Chads’ or ‘Gammons’ have been popularised previously.Ī Karen is generally from Generation X (the one between baby boomers and millennials), so in her late 30s or 40s. The ‘Karen’ meme has been around for a while. Because of that, many are now calling the use of the term Karen sexist.īut first, some background: Who is Karen? What is the Karen meme? But why aren't Kens also getting called out? Because, lots of evidence shows that, if anything, it's men who are more likely to disregard coronavirus rules. Over lockdown, it was especially being used as a term for women who refuse to wear face masks or get vaccinated. So, if you're behind, let us try to explain what the 'Karen' meme is, and why it allowed someone to actually make Karen the movie. The most Googled of late? The Karen meme. In fact, according to Google Trends data, you're never alone in searching for what certain memes mean. There’s a lot going on when you turn on your social media feeds these days, so you’ll be forgiven for not keeping up on every meme that’s got everyone talking.
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