Scariest thing
What’s the scariest thing you can be for Halloween 2020?
A “Karen,” according to Los Angeles-based artist Jason Adcock.
Aw haw haw, so funny. It’s always a laugh-riot to see men telling us how terrifying and evil women are.
“2020 is the year of the KAREN! Scare all ur friends with ur big hair and narrow mind,” Adcock, 34, wrote on Instagram.
Hur hur
Adcock told “Good Morning America” that his idea stemmed from having a dark sense of humor.
“I’ve kind of seen Karens in the wild my whole life, and I just thought it would be kind of a funny thing to make for Halloween, and I didn’t think it would really take off,” he said. “Karen is transcendent of all gender and size. She is just like a modern day tyrant. Anybody evil can be a Karen.”
But we use a woman’s name because…you know…most tyrants and evil people are women, obvs.
“Transcendent of all gender” but always female. K.
The worst of it is, when I worked retail, there were few, if any, white women asking to see the manager or acting entitled. To be honest, there were few of any sex or race, but those that were present were about evenly distributed, with men (no matter age or race) nearly always condescending but nice enough, and women usually nice enough. Most people just want to get their business done and move on. A few…a very few…will harangue an employee for something, sometimes reasonable sometimes not.
It would be an interesting study to do, to see if it really is always, or even most frequently, white women who act like entitled jerks. And to see if there are that many people making those demands. My main experience these days with retail is as a customer, and standing in line behind other customers, I see little of this behavior. When I do see it, the perp is not necessarily a woman, or white. It seems to be about evenly distributed in populations as far as I can tell.
Of course, most of my retail experiences these days is once a week to the grocery store, and hurry to get out before some unmasked bandit infects me with a potentially lethal virus. But I haven’t noticed any change in the entitled behavior from what it was before.
It’s white people in general, but in my experience they mostly look like Kim Davis or Joe Arpaio…
Actually, in my experience, it was pretty much evenly divided between the races; they had about the same percentage of “can I see the manager”, but that was some time ago, and in Oklahoma, so maybe it’s not representative. Around here it’s sort of hard to tell because almost everyone looks (or at least thinks) like Kim Davis or Joe Arpaio, and I don’t see much of that behavior. I think it’s probably a handful of noisy, nasty folks that act like that, and make everyone suffer, sort of like how TRAs make so much noise people think every two TRAs equal half a million or something.
Regardless, the Karen meme really isn’t about people asking to see the manager, not anymore. It’s about anyone who has the gall to be a white woman past the age of fuckability.
So is there a “sexy Karen” costume yet?
Laurel, a sexy Karen is a Stacy. And she always goes out with Chad.
The lack of a “sexy Karen” option means this costume is basically for men. Just in case the misogyny wasn’t already obvious enough.
Halloween. Ugh. I don’t understand American Halloween. It’s a kids holiday – I had tremendous fun dressing up as a witch or a vampire when I was a kid. The last time I dressed up in costume was going to see the 25th Anniversary of the Rocky Horror Show at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle. I went as Magenta. It was a riot, I’ll admit.
But after that, there isn’t much appeal for me. I’m not raining on anyone’s parade – if you like dressing up in costumes, go for your life. Go raid a thrift store so your money goes somewhere useful. But these companies who sell costumes for adults are just fucked up. Why does everything have to be sexy (for the women) even when it’s weird (sexy potato anyone?). Where did this come from?
I’m Murkan and I don’t understand it either. It’s been amping up like crazy in recent years, becoming a Major Holiday in a way it never used to be. People compete over how much junk they can stick all over their front yards/gardens, and how morbid they can make the displays. I hate it, even without Sexy Costumes for the Laydeez.