Where I live, even if it's been misogynistically loaded by :reddit-logo: and related communities, "Karens" are very real, both in my neighborhood and where I go to get groceries. They argue, a lot, and are especially confrontational and condescending with employees. They will fight and demand a manager over a difference in cents or a matter of months on an expired coupon, and snap their fingers to get people's attention, lick fingers when handling their money as a performative thing they learned from TV, and it isn't just a women thing. For lack of an agreed-upon term, "Henrys" are roughly the same thing but dress like 55+ year old children, wear flip-flops and cargo shorts and have goatees to go with their thumb heads, and have more direct threats of violence toward employees for the same setbacks.
The other stereotype involves self-described libertarians. I knew dozens, in fact scores, during college, and many never grew out of it. Speaking of growing up, almost every single one of them at some point argued with me, usually unprompted, that age of consent laws are "a social construct" and that "a lot of teenagers, and even children" (their words not mine :desolate: ) "are easily as logical and capable of consent as adults." Lots of them cited how child marriage is common and normal or even that they had ancestors that had child marriages and dared me to say their ancestors were pedophiles (in one case, I did dare say that. Yes, there was a fight). They didn't agree on everything but their desire to violate teenagers was a consistent trait. :epstein:
When I worked in retail and also food stuff if a white woman over say 45 or so can't find or get what they want there is an extremely high chance there going to make a scene and complain heavily to me, co-workers and managers. They love to say, "I can't believe you guys don't have _____! Can you check the back? I came all the way from one city over and it was here yesterday!" So yeah, I think the Karen stereotype is fuckin spot on lol
The whole thing about "well I'll just take my business elsewhere" is just the delusion that through individual market actions we can make our voice heard. Yeah, you'll sure show them never going to that chipotle again. That billion dollar conglomerate controlled by business consultants in New York will never mess with you again.
Lol it's true definitely had people claim they lost a customer and they'd be back later that week. It's so wild how people think regular employees care they're not going to come back. If anything we celebrate this shit, if we're out of something and you're mad about it to a regular employee then we don't like you lol. We have no control over supply shit, go away