We should pity the stereotypical “Karen”. These are women nursing a burning resentment at the world, with hearts full of hate, their only armor their massively over-inflated sense of entitlement. They look and sound deeply unhappy: the only thing that gives them a glimmer of joy is dragging others down into their misery.
But then we watch yet another TikTok of a Karen doing Karen things, and any pity soon dries up. This week’s candidate is a truly unpleasant incident at a Kansas Burger King in which a woman who identifies herself as Cathy Brown begins abusing staff before… you guessed it, demanding to speak to the manager.
