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An Interaction with a ‘Karen’ at a Restaurant Is Indicative of the Person Who Refuses to Get Vaccinated
And why we’ll be dealing with some variant of covid for the next 20 years.
According to the UrbanDictionary,
Karen is a pejorative term used in the United States and other English-speaking countries for a woman perceived as entitled or demanding beyond the scope of what is appropriate or necessary. A common stereotype is that of a white woman who uses her privilege to demand her own way at the expense of others.
There are male Karens as well. I’ve run into of few of them on Twitter.
I did something the other day I never do. I asked a stranger politely to turn down the volume on her kid’s cellphone, which was turned up to the highest level because the noise in the restaurant was interfering with his cartoon watching.
In a restaurant.
Instead of not saying anything, like I usually do, and then complaining about it for the rest of the day to friends and family, I took an assertive stance, and I asked her politely if she could turn her child’s video down or use headphones. For it was her child who was in a public place, treating it like their living room.
