It just always comes off as very sexist to me. Hell, even when people acknowledge that males can be that way it's always an afterthought.
But the whole image of a Karen encapsulates a lot of misogny about women being naggy/shrill/bitchy. It assumes that the customer is a woman or acts like a woman cause the image is of a woman. And women are naggy/bitchy/shrill. The reason they use a woman's name for the trope is because when a women acts this bitchy it gets taht image. Men are seen as power powerful and less looked down for acting like this. Note there is no name for a male who acts like this or people just call them Karens too. But they don't have a name for it as if this is really only a thing women do.
Way back when Livejournal was popular I was in a forum called customer's suck who I swear were SJW way before it caught on more and got "popular" (or rather more people started waking up). And I mean that in a good way. They are who taught me that describing some one when their race/gender/whatever doesn't really matter to the story usually shows that you already have a bias about that race/gender/whatever (keep in mind the group was there to bitch about asshole customers). They had expicit rules against describing the customer as anything but a customer unless the race/gender was important to the story and not in a sexist/racist way. At first I thought it was ridiculous but as time went on I could see the sense in it as they kept having to argue to people why this was a rule. Anyways... they had a term for what people use as karens today, entitlement bastard or bitch depending on the gender of the customer. I suppose you could even say entitlement assholes for multiples or to keep gender out of it entirely.
But the whole image of a Karen encapsulates a lot of misogny about women being naggy/shrill/bitchy. It assumes that the customer is a woman or acts like a woman cause the image is of a woman. And women are naggy/bitchy/shrill. The reason they use a woman's name for the trope is because when a women acts this bitchy it gets taht image. Men are seen as power powerful and less looked down for acting like this. Note there is no name for a male who acts like this or people just call them Karens too. But they don't have a name for it as if this is really only a thing women do.
Way back when Livejournal was popular I was in a forum called customer's suck who I swear were SJW way before it caught on more and got "popular" (or rather more people started waking up). And I mean that in a good way. They are who taught me that describing some one when their race/gender/whatever doesn't really matter to the story usually shows that you already have a bias about that race/gender/whatever (keep in mind the group was there to bitch about asshole customers). They had expicit rules against describing the customer as anything but a customer unless the race/gender was important to the story and not in a sexist/racist way. At first I thought it was ridiculous but as time went on I could see the sense in it as they kept having to argue to people why this was a rule. Anyways... they had a term for what people use as karens today, entitlement bastard or bitch depending on the gender of the customer. I suppose you could even say entitlement assholes for multiples or to keep gender out of it entirely.
