Karen is my Name

Ok Fanny, I get the drift…

I started this thread to give an account of why I felt it necessary to change my name. I asked if anyone else had done so and sadly they had.

I also wanted to give some information to show what is happening and to this end I think I achieved my goal.

I did my best.

FannyCornforth

Perhaps it’s time for this thread to dwindle away?
It really has taken a turn for the worse
(Please don’t bother having a pop at me for ‘monitoring’ etc)

I certainly will.

At least posters are now aware of it, even if some choose to be rather dismissive.

Pammie1…
“Antifa and BLM in my opinion are movements which have been hijacked by the left and are being used as puppets for another agenda.”

No, no, no… these movements have not been hijacked by the left at all. The far right, such as nazis (and arguably our uk govt), are fascist. Antifa means anti fascist. BLM is left wing because it opposes far right racism, in a very, very close match, I think, to opposition of the derogatory and nasty use of Karen.
People who are racist will suggest you are a Karen if you support antifa or BLM in my experience. It’s the racist way of shutting you up, if you’re a woman. I’m not sure what they would call me!

The only Karen I can think of is the writer Karen Blixen and she doesn’t fit any of those stereotypes.

Lemongrove
How did your family member’s previous school respond to the work place bullying?
I can only imagine that there are many woman called Karen working in schools. I wonder if this is a widespread issue? Is this an issue in other places of work too?

“People who are racist will suggest you are a Karen if you support antifa or BLM in my experience.” Really ? That’s not my understanding at all. I must have it all wrong then,

From what I have seen, people use it to describe anyone they disagree with these days. Saw a thread on Twitter recently where mostly grown men were accusing each other of being ‘Karens’ based on whether they agreed with wearing face masks on public transport or not.
Ridiculous really that a Danish form of Katherine and the name of a ethnic group in Myanmar is used as an insult in mostly English speaking counties.

This is just giving oxygen to a(nother) ridiculous ‘ thing’ for us to take up, from America.
As a Karen who doesn’t use social media other than GN, I had never heard of it before reading the post, but now I have, as have many more. Perhaps the stupid ones will take it up and pass it on. I hope the majority just ignore as this deserves.

I am not implying grans are stupid, just the rest

AgnesEve

Lemongrove
How did your family member’s previous school respond to the work place bullying?
I can only imagine that there are many woman called Karen working in schools. I wonder if this is a widespread issue? Is this an issue in other places of work too?

Hopeless, that’s how. The Headmistress was a weak character who hardly came out from behind her desk and seemed to be scared of some staff members and terrified of teenage boys!
In the end it was easier for her to find another teaching post and change her name.She’s happy now and wishes she had done it earlier.

Lemongrove I had no idea the karen thing had been around for long in the UK. I only heard if it recently.

@PembsPaul. People who are racist will suggest you are a Karen if you support antifa or BLM in my experience. It’s the racist way of shutting you up, if you’re a woman.

Not in my experience. From the videos I’ve seen on YouTube and similar, of these incidents, it’s the so-called ‘Karens’ who are the racists and the slur is being used to call them out. The word ‘racist’ also seems to be used liberally by BLM to silence anyone who expresses a different point of view, and thus shut down the debate. I don’t hold with using Karen as a put down but then I also don’t hold with the terms ‘white supremacist’ or ‘white privilege’ - whilst I understand the sentiment they are meant to express, I think they’re divisive, which is counterproductive to say the least.