The typical "screaming Karen" puts on a hysterical show out of a personality-disordered desire to manipulate. These, typically, are the people that go into a cosmetologist's office in full transvestite garb and demand that their balls be shaven. They're the ones that go out of their way to force a Christian bakery to design a cake for a gay wedding when any one of thirty other bakers would have gladly obliged. They're the ones that run around the beach with a 6-foot tape measure screeching about social distancing and ultimately needing to be restrained and then carried off.ahhrunforthehills wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:30 pm In an unrelated matter, I found myself on urbandictionary today for a different reason. Underneath the word I was looking for (don't ask) it literally said the following:
JUL 21 WORD OF THE DAY
Karen
(2nd example)
Karen refuses to wear a face mask for her 5 minute trip to the supermarket during a pandemic. She harasses the workers, asks to see the manager and threatens to sue."
Anyways, it got me thinking about Doodle's comment, Maddy's reaction, etc.
Maddy basically told a story that was the exact example of the word Doodle used. Then everyone else basically said Doodle was bad. This had me scratching my head a little bit.
I get that nobody likes labels. But her story was literally the definition. I can't even blame Doodle for his response as I see it as a very natural and human reply.
They do it out of a desire to control other people, which is why the term came into being to describe the penchant of authoritarian progressives to dictate, right down to the last detail, what other people should do and how they should think.
The situation I described was anything of the sort. It was grounded in law, pursued in a rational, respectful (albeit firm) manner, and motivated by my view that we're dealing with a flatly unconstitutional mandate and on the verge of losing our constitutionally-guaranteed liberties. It's one of many ways in which I have communicated the message, "I will not comply" and stood up to those businesses who have been all too willing to be used as the enforcement arm of a tyrannical state. As a constitutional conservative with a strong libertarian bent, I have no interest in dictating how other people should live--unlike Doodle, who has gained a reputation for going out of his way to pick fights with the more right-leaning members of this forum, becoming emotionally upset to the point of hurling personal insults, and then stomping off in a huff.
It hardly comes as a surprise that the Urban Dictionary--whose essential mission is to define the language of leftist culture--is going to provide an example that makes a mockery of conservatives on the very issues that most resonate with that group. And, just as Alinsky taught, to do it in a way that projects onto their opposition of the very thing they're doing.
Doodle's comment was meant as an insult to someone whose opinions he simply cannot tolerate--nothing more, nothing less.