Day 9 “Crashing” Women’s History Month: A “Rose” by Any Other Name is Still a Karen

Remember the movie Get Out?

Remember that foul character named Rose?

Remember all the “secret ops Karening” she committed?

What happens when you strip away the “explicit love relationship” but leave the modus operandi the same?

You have a Karen that operates like this:

She collects gullible and clueless Black men who fall for her charms and her damsel in distress routine. She takes advantage of their disenfranchisement and lures them in with her feigned acceptance of their Blackness. And they in turn are suckered by the welcome and jump at the chance to align with her. Because these “tools” are disposable and wear out their usefulness, she keeps several in her collection.

Like moths drawn to a flame, Black men are at her beck-and-call. This makes Karens at minimum a double threat. One, they activate white men into serving as enforcers of the white code. Two, they dispatch Black men to defend them and shut down Black women whom they perceive to be a threat—either real or perceived. (And let’s face it—Black women pose a threat to Karen because we see right through her.)

This high-level variety Karen is an expert at exploiting the sympathy of Black men and holds court over them with the power of whiteness coupled with “womanly wiles.”

Her end game?

Securing power from the patriarchy while maintaining the “superiority” of whiteness. And just like the “Rose” of Get Out, this kind of Karen stays “true” to the end, no matter what.

*Extended treatment of Karens found in Blaxhaustion, Karens & Other Threats to Black Lives and Well-Being

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