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May 15, 2021 5:29 PM
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The Reddit post earned thousands of upvotes and comments. Strangers pointed me to it; friends and family pointed me to it. The data was right there in a graph, the trend unmistakable. And yet the name story wasn’t true. The baby name Karen did not just plummet into obscurity, pushed …
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August 15, 2020 4:52 PM
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Ask a woman called Karen what she used to think of her name, and you’ll hear phrases like “generic”, “perfectly serviceable” and “an easy name”. In 2020, Karen is no longer “an easy name”. Once popular for girls born in the 1960s, it then became a pseudonym for a middle-aged busybody with a blonde choppy bob who asks to speak to the manager. Now the moniker has most recently
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August 8, 2020 3:59 PM
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What happens when a name like Karen becomes tainted by association with negative traits or actions? Judging by the Dicks, Berthas and Adolphs of the world, the future is not looking bright for Karen.
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August 1, 2020 4:58 PM
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In 1965, it was the third-most-popular baby name in the United States. In 2018, it was the 635th — and today it’s even less popular. How did Karens fall so far?
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August 15, 2020 5:04 PM
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August 8, 2020 4:22 PM
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“I sometimes make the joke, ‘Oh, my name is Karen. Like the meme,’ ” Hernandez said. “That’s when I get told by people, ‘You’re nothing like the meme. You’re nothing like the Karens. You’re a nice Karen.’ ”
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August 8, 2020 12:19 PM
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As one of 1.1 million women in the United States named Karen, seeing my name used as a randomly selected, lazy label for racist, privileged white women behaving badly is soul-crushing.
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August 1, 2020 4:40 PM
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Name memes like Karen, Becky and Kyle have stepped out of the virtual realm and into public discourse over the last few months. We explore the phenomenon.
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