[ansel12]

It is a racist term and seems part of the effort to decivilize the public space and make white women cower and retreat even more from influence on the social decay.

Asking for the manager was always the proper way for a Lady or even a gentleman to do things.
Patty, Becky, Gail, Karen, I don’t think women with names like that are the causes of the female problems in public spaces, regardless of the small number of oddball cases that make it to the internet.

“The woman who complained about the young water-seller was dubbed “Permit Patty”. Another woman who called the police when a black family was having a barbecue was named “BBQ Becky”. And a white woman who called 911 on a black dad at a football match, while sitting in a golf cart, was called “Golfcart Gail”.
This trend properly broke through in 2018, and eventually all of these names became distilled into one or two of the most popular - including Karen.”

[TigersEye]

I’ll just call them cat ladies if that makes you feel any better.

[Pocketdoor]

I always thought Karen came from Planktons computer wife on SpongeBob.

[fr_freak]

[Karen] is a racist term and seems part of the effort to decivilize the public space and make white women cower and retreat even more from influence on the social decay.

I don't see it that way. In fact, I see it as kind of the opposite. The hard truth is that progressive white women are a huge driving force in the communization and moral decay of the USA. I see the term "Karen" as denoting exactly the type of woman that enforces communist orthodoxy, such as wearing masks in grocery stores, or taking down posters or signs because they are "offensive" to some group, or berating some stranger for expressing a non-politically correct opinion.