hot take: the 'karen' meme is sexist and i don't like it
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You’re acting as if men’s names haven’t been used to depict problematic behavior (i.e, Uncle Tom, Chad, stan, etc)
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I'm less familiar with Uncle Tom in actual usage, but isn't Chad usually a positive thing? Like flattery? I think I'm okay with positive sexism. I also don't know what Stan means.
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Chad isn’t positive, Stan is an obsessive fan. All these terms criticize the behavior that happens to correlate more with the sex/specific identifying factors, it’s not because of the sex the behavior happens.
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lol! I definitely thought chad was positive. I think i would be equally bothered by these male names if used in a similar fashion to Karen. Right now Karen is a *very* popular meme name, I don't think I've seen any other name, female or male, come close to its meme strength.
women finally got a degrading stereotype when men have had multiple for years just means we finally have equality
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i mean idk if you're viewing me as some typical feminist, probably 90% of anything i say about gender on my twitter is heavily skewed towards pointing out the way men are oppressed. This is like the first time in a while that I've said anything about sexism towards women
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I don't know what Chad means but def not positive. Stan is a little different because it comes from a character in a (very good) Eminem song and is used for both sexes
I admit I tend to automatically think less (sometimes much less depending on context) of anyone who uses Becky/Karen/Chad etc, sorta like when start going on about alphas or betas or cucks (ok cuck is worse.than the others, that gets an automatic tune out unless used ironically)
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