Karen picking on boat names!

[El Pinguino]

Originally Posted by MicHughV

Curious to know where does this term " Karen" derives from. I often hear it these days with reference to a woman complaining about one thing or another... ???

Present usage stems from an incident in Central Park, NY, a few years ago involving a - white - lady with the name.

[jordanbigel]

Originally Posted by MicHughV

interesting......this term "afro-american" also stymies me... you never hear " french-american.....german american, etc, etc...
Africa is a huge continent with some 50 odd countries therein and countless ethnic languages......you'd think it might be Nigerian American....Ghana America, etc...but no...it's "African American"....Egyptians get to escape this being known simply as Egyptians even though they too are part of Africa.
Ah well......

Ok Karen.

[thinwater]

Originally Posted by Mike OReilly

Sure ... but that's not what the anecdote in question said -- nowhere near as clear cut as your example Thin. If it was, I don't think there would be much debate.

That's the challenge with this stuff; the real world is mostly grey. But too many of us (an increasing number, I suggest) can only see in black & white/right & wrong/good & bad.

Maybe, as my deceased countryman once said: "the medium is the message." The medium is computer. Maybe the binary world of the machine has infected our analog thinking so that we can only see in 0 or 1.

Mostly I agree. Live and let live.



But when it comes to something so public as a sign or a boat name, it feels like time to put on a mature face, IMO. Titillation and profanity are basically a lazy way to get a laugh. Comedians know it. That doesn't make them role models.

[Adelie]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

Present usage stems from an incident in Central Park, NY, a few years ago involving a - white - lady with the name.

Actually that woman’s name was Amy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centra...nt?wprov=sfti1

The use as a pejorative seems to have caught on about 2018 and the origin is not completely clear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_(slang)?wprov=sfti1

[El Pinguino]

Originally Posted by Adelie

Actually that woman’s name was Amy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centra...nt?wprov=sfti1

The use as a pejorative seems to have caught on about 2018 and the origin is not completely clear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_(slang)?wprov=sfti1

Yes, I have just been reading up on it, my memory is slipping.

[ahun]

Wait 'til she comes up north, every othe car has a C.U.N.T. sticker on the back. (See You in the Northern Territory.)

[skipperpete]

I saw this on a commercial fishing boat transom in Dublin.

[Fore and Aft]

Peyton always got the boat name right in his cartoons.
Cheers

[Lodesman]

Want to know the definition of irony?

A bunch of people on an internet forum, who are offended over some woman being offended.

[the stargazer]

Forget Karen. I want to know who the weirdo is who named their boat Big Black C*ck. Name your boat whatever you want, but I hope you're horribly embarrassed riding that thing out of the marina. If not, there's something wrong with you. Although that was probably established by the boat name lol

[Wotname]

Provisional closure pending mod review.

[Wotname]

As the clouds of political storms gather on the windward horizon and the shoals of irrelevancy lie close to leeward, the good ship CF has deep reefed, tacked and lies hove to.

The thread remains closed, 8 posts have been deleted for political content not directly related to thread topic; you know who you are, please refrain from irrelevant political ping pong and stick to sailing content. There are plenty of other sites where you exercise your political posting skills.