Question of the Day #535

"We all know a ‘Karen’ or two. But who, exactly, is a Karen?"

From the headline of this article at The New Daily.

上記の文で、Karenの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "Karen" mean?

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解答

意味：
Dictionary.comによると、

Karenは、軽蔑的なスラング用語で、感じの悪い、怒りを持った、自分に特権があると思っている、しばしば人種差別的な白人中年女性のことをいう。この用語の対象となる女性は、自分の特権を使って他人を従わせようとする。
多くのインターネットミームにあるように典型的なKarenは、髪の毛は金髪のボブ、いつも苦情を言うために店長と話したがり、反ワクチン派のGeneration Xで子供のサッカーに没頭している母親である。
ビデオ撮影された人種差別的な行動や発言をしている白人女性を非難するするために、１つのラベルとして2020年に流行している呼び方。

Answer

According to Dictionary.com:

Karen is a pejorative slang term for an obnoxious, angry, entitled, and often racist middle-aged white woman who uses her privilege to get her way or police other people's behaviors.
As featured in memes, Karen is generally stereotyped as having a blonde bob haircut, asking to speak to retail and restaurant managers to voice complaints or make demands, and being an anti-vaxx , Generation X soccer mom.
In 2020, Karen spread as a label used to call out white women who were captured in viral videos engaging in what are widely seen as racist acts.

Examples

• Amid the coronavirus pandemic, “Karen” has been adopted as a shorthand to call out a vocal minority of middle-aged white women who are opposed to social distancing, out of either ignorance or ruthless self-interest.
• A new video—which is somehow even more disturbing than the first—has surfaced of SoCal Karen. The clip shows the woman confront an Asian man in a parking lot and launch a series of racist remarks at him.
• This year I went with the scariest Halloween costume of them all: a Karen.
• Damn people really be judging you for spending money on things you like. Calm down Karen this ain't your money.
• Before the general public learned the name of a white woman who called the police on a Black man in Central Park on May 25, she could easily be identified by a moniker. The internet agreed with certainty that Amy Cooper was a "Karen."

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