PLAIN TWP. ‒ Pity the poor 1,469,388 women named Karen in this country. In the past few years, the name has become synonymous with entitled white privilege and racism, thanks to social media memes. A ...
“Karens” have been represented on the internet as short-haired, middle-aged white women acting with a sense of entitlement. The name has been used as a moniker to represent women who act out or ...
When you look up the hashtag #Karen on Instagram, a search that yields over 773,000 posts, the featured image on the page is a screenshot of a white woman staring intensely into the camera, pursing ...
My name is Karen. I would like to register a complaint. My name has been everywhere on the Internet in recent weeks, with #Karen trending on Twitter, flooding TikTok and becoming the subject of social ...
A shock of hair, festooned with chunky highlights, is currently barreling toward Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The style is odd, and dated: shorter in the back than the front, with long, ...
It was a weekend full of Karens—the nickname du jour for entitled white women on a rampage. After such a stacked weekend, who could have guessed that Sunday night would deliver the Uber Karen? No, she ...
Tropical Storm Karen, which is moving through the Southern Windward islands and could hit Puerto Rico early next week, has inspired the internet to make memes poking fun of the storm’s name. #Karen ...
In the ongoing, tense conversation over how long America has to remain locked down during the coronavirus pandemic, one of the more absurd moments came two weeks ago: Carolyn Goodman, the mayor of Las ...
Aja Romano wrote about pop culture, media, and ethics. Before joining Vox in 2016, they were a staff reporter at the Daily Dot. A 2019 fellow of the National Critics Institute, they’re considered an ...