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美國“Karen”梗火了……網上人人喊打,這究竟是個什麼人設?

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最近,Karen這個名字在美國變得似乎特別招人恨。

社交媒體上,不斷能看到人們對Karen的嘲諷吐槽,彷彿Karen是過街老鼠一般:

今天也就才屏蔽了26個Karen吧,我得加把勁了。

Karen啥也不是,不信你去我上班的酒吧問問看,人人都這麼說。

Karen們,老實在家呆着吧。

padding-bottom: 66.51%;">美國“Karen”梗火了……網上人人喊打,這究竟是個什麼人設?

我再也受不了這些Karen了。希望老天讓我遇上一個,我不知道別人是怎麼能忍住不發火的,我可不行。

所以,Karen到底是誰?怎麼幾乎到了人人喊打的地步?

Karen名場面

帶着這些疑問,我們看看網上那些“Karen名場面”。

其中最著名的,就是那位紐約中央公園Karen了。一名黑人男子要求她拴住她的狗後,她出言不遜地報了警,還向警察捏造了罪名。

Central Park Karen

中央公園Karen

New York woman Amy Cooper lost her job after getting into an argument with African-American man Christian Cooper, no relation, in Central Park after he asked her to leash her dog – in a leash area.

紐約女子Amy Cooper因與非裔美國男子Christian Cooper發生爭執而丟掉了工作。兩人非親非故,爭執起因是Christian在中央公園要求艾米把她的狗拴住。

"I'm taking a picture and calling the cops," Amy Cooper is heard saying in the video. "I'm going to tell them there's an African-American man threatening my life."

視頻中可以聽到Amy Cooper說:“我正在拍照,等下就報警。”“我要告訴警察,有一個非裔美國人威脅我的生命。”

Kroger Karen

克羅格Karen

Kroger Karen, named after the supermarket chain, blocked an African-American mother’s car so the woman couldn’t leave the market’s parking lot.

“克羅格卡倫”(Kroger Karen)以事發的連鎖超市命名的,她擋住了一位非洲裔美國母親的汽車,使其無法把車開出超市的停車場。

Whitefish Karen

懷特費什Karen

Whitefish Karen (named for her town in Montana) coughed on a couple when they called her out for not wearing a mask inside a grocery store.

“懷特費什卡倫”(Whitefish Karen)是以她所在的蒙大納州小鎮命名的,她對着一對夫婦咳嗽,因爲他們要求她在一家食品雜貨店裏戴上口罩。

Permit Karen

許可證Karen

A New Jersey woman calling the police to report her Black neighbors were putting in a stone patio without a permit.

美國新澤西州一名女子向警方報案,說她的黑人鄰居在沒有許可的情況下建了石砌庭院。

Officer Karen

警察Karen

Georgia police officer Stacy Talbert teared up on Facebook Live while describing how "nervous" she felt while waiting for a McDonald's order.

喬治亞州警官Stacy Talbert在臉書直播時,談到在麥當勞等餐時的“緊張”情緒而哭泣。

Karen人設

Karen其實是一個名字梗,代指中年、白人、歧視有色人種的女性,她們喜歡抱怨、小題大做、不相信科學、處處不配合。

堪薩斯州立大學的Heather Suzanne Woods教授認爲:

“A Karen demands the world exist according to her standards with little regard for others, and she is willing to risk or demean others to achieve her ends.”

“Karen們要求世界按照她們的標準存在,很少考慮別人,她們願意冒着風險或貶低別人來達到自己的目的。”

雜誌編輯Rachel Charlene Lewis認同該解讀:

“A Karen sees no one as an individual, instead moving through the world prepared to fight faceless conglomerate of lesser-than people who won’t give her what she wants and feels she deserves.”

“Karen並不把人看做個體,相反,他們把人看做一羣面目模糊的烏合之衆,時刻做準備,同那些不願滿足她們想當然需求的陌生人展開鬥爭。”

實際上,名字梗的玩兒法歷史悠久。

喬治亞理工大學的AndréBrock教授指出,在美國黑奴制度廢除之前,Miss Ann曾被用來指代那些想要對黑人施加權力的白人婦女。

在現代社會,隨着視頻行業發展,名字梗開始風靡,比如Permit Patty和BBQ Becky。

Permit Patty

許可證Patty

Alison Ettel, a San Francisco cannabis business owner, went viral after video emerged of her saying she was calling police on an eight-year-old black girl for "illegally selling water without a permit".

舊金山印度大麻企業主Alison Ettel的一段視頻在網上瘋傳。視頻中,Alison說她正在報警,舉報一名8歲黑人女孩“未經許可非法賣水”。

BBQ Becky

燒烤Becky

After a white woman called the police on a group of Black folks barbecuing in a public park, the term "BBQ Becky" was coined.

一羣黑人在公園燒烤時,一名白人女子報了警,於是“BBQ Becky”誕生了。

在所有的名字梗中,Karen流傳最廣。

2017年,一名Reddit用戶在該平臺宣泄了對前妻Karen的不滿並設立標籤,稱她在離婚過程中帶走了他的孩子和房子。之後,這個標籤吸引了超過60萬粉絲,大家都在這裏分享自己與中年白人婦女不愉快的經歷。

In 2017, an anonymous Reddit user went viral on the platform after posting rants about ex-wife Karen, who he said had taken his children and their house during the divorce proceedings.

而美國真人秀嘉賓Kate Gosselin的髮型則被網友用來豐富Karen人設。她的側分金色波波頭成爲Karen的標誌,甚至有了對應的表情包。

新冠病毒Karen

疫情期間,Coronavirus Karen被用來指代不配合戴口罩,社交距離等政策的中年婦女。她們熱衷於刁難工作人員,更是隨時隨地要求“speak to the manager”(和經理談談)。

Aggressively refusing to wear a face covering to help protect others from the virus has been seen as a new iteration of the stereotype of the entitled Karen who harasses service industry workers.

一名白人婦女因爲不願意戴口罩超過45分鐘而哭泣的視頻在網上瘋傳。

I don't feel good. I can tell you right now I wasn't getting enough oxygen.

我不舒服,此時此刻,我覺得缺氧。

I just want to cry. Because you can't see people's faces, you can't make human connection, we can't hug people, we can't hold their babies.

我只想哭。因爲看不到大家的臉,不能建立人際聯結,不能擁抱其他人,不能擁抱嬰兒。

也有商家爲了對付Karen們,在標語上硬核喊話“Grow up Karen”。

下次看到有人吐槽Karen,再別真的將名叫Karen的姑娘對號入座啦!