The Anthropology of Karens

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Bibliography:
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley
The Tree of Culture by Ralph Linton
The Civilizing Process by Norbert Elias
The Age of Faith by Will Durant
Leviathan and Its Enemies by Samuel Francis
Europe Emerges by Reynolds
The Storm Before the Calm by Friedman
Why Women Deserve Less by Myron Gaines
The Nice Guy's Guide to Dating by David Hamilton
Woke Racism by John McWhorter
The Origins of Woke by Hanania
The Unabomber's Manifesto

[@WhatifAltHist]

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[@Exodus26.13Pi]

Do one about single Black women in America. The world has never seen anything like them.

[@whitequetzal3574]

The best description of anthropology/sociology I am aware of is the study of a scale of domestication of humans. One studies the feral, the other the domesticated, it's basically a zoo vs the East African wilderness.

[@MA_KA_PA_TIE]

Yes

[@tpsam]

You are uploading much more regularly thank you a lot

[@filmbuff4]

Unfortunately you keep referring to "muh nazis" as "nazis" instead of National Socialist Germany. I can only imagine that a channel of your size has already been compromised, because you keep spreading Jewish propaganda. I'm 37, an autist, and will gladly debate you on WWII, Hitler and the Holocaust.

[@TimBitts649]

The Rule of Karen Doctor: if you run into a Karen married to a doctor, she automatically assumes the high social status of someone who went to medical school.

[@simunator]

same with officer dependas in the military sector

[@Peak_Aussieman]

It's like that with lawyers. You'd expect them to be articulate and thoughtful. They can actually be surprisingly robotic and needlessly rigid

[@aygwm]

And if you’re Ben Shapiro, you still assume the high social status of someone who married a doctor.

[@notsocrates9529]

There is a military version of this Karen; e.g., a wife of a colonel or general automatically outranks every other person to include senior enlisted.

[@givem110]

Or whatever the husbands high status job or business is. They live to find ways to look down in others.

[@zqrahll]

The men who stay in loveless, sexless marriages don't stay because of an external appearance-- he often says for the kids, or even more likely, he stays because he knows the Divorce Industry will slaughter him financially.

[@robertmarley8852]

Not just financially Spiritually as well The state and others came between me and my son's It's unforgivable There will be Bloode

[@TractorDog]

far more often is staying for the benefit of the kids - the ones who stay that is.

[@nyetzdyec3391]

It's been a known fact, since at least the early 70's, that... "It's cheaper to keep her."

[@ngamashaka4894]

This pressure is well known to the Karens who use it as a weapon, a nuclear weapon. The day the divorce law change and those divorce Karen do not live on other peoples money, will be the day things begin to change for real.

[@nathans.3751]

100% correct.

[@photojunkysdronezonevlog]

About 6 months ago a Karen accused me of snapping a photo of her children. She became irate. I immediately went up to her and showed her all the images on my camera so she would calm down. It was as if I was talking to a brick. She kept on continuing asking why I took a picture of her children. I told her I did not again and she became even more worked up and said she was going to call the police. I told her I was the police for 30 years and am now retired. I showed her my retired badge but it did not calm her. She actually went across the street and got a police officer from a Sephora store which keeps on getting robbed by you know who, and tracked me down. At that point I had already walked away from her not knowing her intentions. I explained to the cop I had just taken a photo of the accordion player near her kids but did not film them which is not illegal anyway. They detained me for almost 15 minutes. They ran my identification to verify I was a former police officer. When I told one of the officers I thought she needed to be medicated by her hysterical behavior, he told me to be quiet. I was absolutely shocked I was being treated that way. It was truly bizarre. Karen's are amongst the most dangerous people in our country. They are illogical and are hysterical. They cannot be reasoned with. After that incident I vowed I will never be polite and take the high ground with a Karen. If they want to get hysterical, I will be glad to give it right back to them. What's the point if you cannot reason with them. You may as well have some fun.

[@MartymcFly-zz2pg]

Drone warfare

[@charlespeterson778]

Was she Jewish?

[@user-bv8fr4to8k]

Good to hear you are alright buddy. Sickening when the establishment decides to base responses around Karen neuroticism/hallucinations

[@itsallfunandgames723]

I'm amazed at how many people in this country were aghast at the idea of defunding the police. If the police in your town have time for nonsense, then you have too many police, it's the most obvious thing in the world to me. I know one city in Ohio allowed their police budget to bloat to ridiculous levels, everybody who lived there was pulling down multiple traffic tickets a year just to pay for it all, they were employed just to pull people over for going 30 in a 25 zone so that those tickets could then pay for their employment. That city put a resolution to halve the police budget on the ballot, passed overwhelmingly, and guess what? The nonsense went away. For 99.9% of the land in the US, you don't need a heavy police presence, but we act like everywhere is a Baltimore slum anyway and it just makes everybody hate society and hate the police more.

[@thomgizziz]

Karens aren't the problem the problem is the culture where we are told to believe all women... who tend to lie more often than anybody and if you don't believe the women you will actually get in trouble. Stupid patriarchy.

[@BillySoundFarm]

We will have to explain what "Karens" were to our grandkids because their society will be way too poor to support Karens... A bittersweet victory.

[@JeroenJA]

i'm in europe, i only know the concept cause of all the small videos about the ridiculous things they 'demand' not even ask first..

[@JeroenJA]

sadly, the overdrive woke is being imported to.. some parties wanting to build 'genderneutral toilets" in new gov buildings.. The pronoum thing seem to be a thing around 20yrs old at least.. there is one transminister, but she clearly identifies, and dresses as a woman, ... i'm fine with that.. that at least conseqtant.. but all the weird inner betweens , like men taking hormones for breast and having a beard at the same time..

[@SouvenTudu1]

😂

[@Aoi_Fans]

I think Karen's are women who have had their Pretty Pass revoked. At one time, their looks enabled the game to be played on easy mode. Now they have lost their looks the game is suddenly much harder and they are pissed.

[@Krash845]

Kayllees turn into Karen’s

[@jonny-b4954]

I don't know, there's a lot of Karens who were never and aren't attractive. That would just be an added bonus kind of thing.

[@ravenRedwake]

“I will not be tossed away like a crusty gym sock!”

[@Lucius_Aurelian_]

The wall takes no prisoners

[@rodneyabrett]

It's the hall pass volunteer in high school. They love the authority.

[@Maytrx]

"The Bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."

[@LukeLongboneOfficial]

Civ 4?

[@Maytrx]

@@LukeLongboneOfficial YES! Someone else in this world has head of it! YES!

[@BobWithHat]

I read it in _that_ voice; a wonderful quip.

[@jisperplomp5998]

"The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy... is it's inefficiency"

[@mrdelaney4440]

Sounds like how both cancer and parasites operate.

[@venuspluto67]

My personal favorite example of Karenism: Making an improperly tested novel medical treatment into something akin to a religion and everyone who is hesitant about it into a heretic, with what I believe to be disastrous results.

[@Chris-ki6ui]

What disastrous results?

[@venuspluto67]

@@Chris-ki6ui Large numbers of people experiencing death and disability. The media won't talk about it except perhaps in what is called a "limited hang-out" because Big Pharma has a huge controlling interest in the mainstream media.

[@venuspluto67]

@@Chris-ki6ui I can't help but be flattered that KZbin's algorithm appears to be suppressing my reply to this question. When I check my comment-history, it hasn't been deleted, but it doesn't show up on my screen on the page for the video itself. Or perhaps everyone else except me can see it? I don't really know, but if something fishy is going on, of course I feel compelled to point it out!

[@Chris-ki6ui]

@@venuspluto67 That's very weird. But I can't see it, anyway, and your explanation doesn't elaborate much. I try to think the best of people, but I can't help being genuinely conflicted when I ask the question: is it KZbin going out of their way to censor you? or is it you who can't defend a bullshit statement?

[@venuspluto67]

@@Chris-ki6ui Well, I have to assume it's intentional, as I tried answering your question again and the same freaking thing happened.

[@stayanddrown]

"Karen's will call the police on other people's kids playing outside". When lockdowns first started, my sister in law called the cops on some teenage boys playing basketball at a local park. I laid into her for doing it.

[@phatpat63]

Good on you.

[@jeffsilvey8799]

Thank you and people wonder why motherfuckers killing themselves I'm a 26 year old raised by a cold boomer and fuck man you can't make all forms of being human or in tune with nature illegal and not expect humans to be fucked how aren't these people seeing this.

[@jensen5668]

And let em call as a matter fact offer to let them call on your phone! Karen's crack me up they don't exist to me they have no power until u give them yours! They'll be the end of themselves that's my philosophy!!

[@SouvenTudu1]

😂

[@asrr62]

Explains my whole childhood

[@nraychav]

I’m the closing manager of a fast food restaurant. Have been for the past 10 years. Karens are an unstoppable force like no other. They can suck the energy out of a building in seconds over the smallest things. They cannot be reasoned with or spoken to using logic. I’ve watched them reduce teenage girls and once a grown man to tears over the price of tomatoes on their sandwich, the seating arrangement in the dining room, the scent of the hand soap in the bathroom. You name it, they will complain about it. Their worldview and the things they actually care about are so marginal and unimportant. It’s impossible to have a healthy and growing society with as much hatred and shortsightedness as Karens spread on a daily basis. Hopefully, this isn’t a mindset that is passed onto their children and that we all come back to our senses soon. Good video, Rudyard.

[@castirondude]

They themselves pose no danger but they can be dangerous when people start listening to them.

[@tpsam]

​@@castirondude Tik Tok right now is growing a massive generation of Karens As op comment said shortsighted like the attention span Focused on the dumbest stupid details instead of what really matters Again exactly like the children growing on tiktok

[@Diashi1267]

It’s not so much the details themselves it’s the entitlement they feel to assert power over people. They like to get their way about little insignificant details because it’s how they feel powerful

[@peterroberts4415]

About time we start shaming people for even eating fast food in the first place, instead of how their order was messed up. Cook your own food

[@kevinimmanuel9279]

Sadly, many of the girls in my grade had moms whom you could classify as Karens in the 1990s. Millennials....🙄. I had a friend, Erin, who liked me and I liked her, but someone didn't like that. That someone spread a rumor that Erin was being t o u c h e d, just so that someone could date me, instead of Erin. And yes, that girl accusers mom was also pretty nasty attitude-wise. Karens and their daughters and sons suck.

[@Bombadil-ez9ns]

They think they're not putting up with BS, but they are by far the biggest producers and distributors of pure, unadulterated BS.

[@wellston2826]

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffel them with bull shit" -- W. C. Fields

[@scottanos9981]

And they are promoting fake issues on an election year like debating "the true role of a woman in a family" rather than COST OF LIVING and 2.6 MILLION IMMIGRANTS flooding the nation.

[@scottanos9981]

They are ditching the narrative of cost of living and rising crime from recent arrivals to the country for "social issues" like the role of women in the workplace or something

[@EndrChe]

Facts

[@SydneyBristow0788]

😁😆🤣🤣 So on point. Wow.

[@Kubinda12345]

“All revolutions are conceived by idealists, implemented by fanatics, and its fruits are stolen by scoundrels.” -Thomas Carlyle.

[@Orthodoxi]

Sounds suspiciously like an unholy triad.......

[@marksauck3399]

Someone once asked what the difference between apathy and ignorance is? The response was, I don’t know and I don’t care. I think the person who responded was named Karen. 🤣

[@SouvenTudu1]

Yes

[@SouvenTudu1]

​@@OrthodoxiYes

[@j.robertson9025]

When I worked as a bridal seamstress, I had a whole family of Karens tear me to pieces for altering the bride’s dress exactly the way she wanted it. Then, when I fixed all the “problems” they complained about , they found more problems, including on areas of the dress that I hadn’t touched. They went so far as to throw a fit over a barely, visible pin-hole at the neckline of the dress where they had asked me to remove to piece of lace appliqué that was covering it. Needless to say, the bridal shop gave them their alterations for free, which is exactly what they wanted. That is really what it all comes down to: entitled people wanting shit for free.

[@Accountdeactivated_1986]

Brides are the worst. Anything to do with the bridal industry, avoid. People become their worst selves around the whole wedding thing. So much weird emotional baggage, and family drama, and jealousy, and just all of the worst aspects of humanity. Avoid avoid avoid

[@SouvenTudu1]

Yes. Fucking Leftists

[@SouvenTudu1]

​@@Accountdeactivated_1986Yes

[@lefdee]

Telling people “no” isn’t an insult and it’s gotten out of hand

[@KingPhilipF]

☝️☝️ we tell our children no because we love them.

[@Songwriter376]

@@KingPhilipFMost children today never, ever heard the word no.

[@w2class]

One of my jobs is retrieving CCTV footage from the car parks operated by my employer. Got a request from a woman during the COVID hysteria for footage of a man walking through a well ventilated car park without a mask on. In her anger at his threat to her health, she had slipped on the ramp, broke her arm, and ended up in the emergency ward, where of course she would be in far greater danger of catching any number of things. She seemed to imagine the guy without the mask was responsible for her "accident".

[@Rawdiswar]

Hahahahaha

[@curtiskretzer8898]

I would've charged it a Finders Fee, not even researched it and then told it how there was an empty car park during that transpired period of time @ of it's unfortunate "accident".

[@dont.accept.the.hoover]

classic

[@joshuamueller3206]

Not Hindu, but I do believe in Karma.

[@gyozop]

Amazing and amusing. Her IQ dropped to 40 because of emotions. Then she does not undersand why people have difficulty comprehending her point.

[@Rob1066-]

I owned a business for 7 years and I would hang up on Karens and block their number. The Facebook reviews of my company were a source of hilarity for me and my friends.

[@matg9844]

That's how it's done! Give them nothing.

[@cdo...49283]

I was wondering how long it would take to descend into extreme misogyny.. you lasted longer than I thought but had to bring it up..

[@Accountdeactivated_1986]

As a middle aged, middle class, blonde woman it’s my biggest fear to be called a Karen. Recently at a Mexican restaurant my take out order was incomplete. They charged me for a meal and didn’t put it in the bag. I went to the counter and calmly showed them the receipt and that the item wasn’t in the bag. They couldn’t speak English. I found myself getting a little bit louder and speaking slow to try to get it worked out, but just then another customer stared at me as if I was getting crazy. I pictured this person filming the interaction, claiming that I was being a Karen when I wasn’t, and ruining my life. It was at that point that I said “You know what? Forget it.” And so I ordered and paid for the meal for my husband that they failed to put in the bag, waited for them to make it, and left. So I paid for it twice because I would rather get taken advantage of than have myself plastered all over social media. It’s an ageist and sexist trope, but that’s cool as long as a few people get some lulz, right?

[@timv9223]

@@cdo...49283 reality isn’t favorable towards the delusions of women. You won’t be able to scream misogyny when the revolution begins and society collapse :p

[@PabloVelasco-hr3ko]

@@cdo...49283 what?

[@johnmatthewcrane4423]

A woman’s currency = Attention. A woman’s kryptonite = Accountability.

[@phatpat63]

🎯

[@Chris-ki6ui]

Me when I misunderstand what the video is about and I go on to assume that women are a monolith

[@CorruptDemocratsJ6]

@@Chris-ki6ui You when you're retarded.

[@TheTariqibnziyad]

Lol i can tell you didnt watch the video

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

Perfect. Really.

[@Artorius19631]

“People who do not trust one another will end up cooperating only under a system of formal rules and regulations, which have to be negotiated, agreed to, litigated, and enforced, sometimes by coercive means. This legal apparatus, serving as a substitute for trust, entails what economists call ‘transaction costs.’ Widespread distrust in a society, in other words, imposes a kind of tax on all forms of economic activity, a tax that high-trust societies do not have to pay.” ~ Francis Fukuyama

[@WhatifAltHist]

Straight fax

[@peterroberts4415]

Behold: the CCP

[@nyetzdyec3391]

The bureaucrats call that "job security".

[@irispaiva]

Okay, but how do we make our societies high trust again?

[@Artiz...]

@@irispaiva Exactly... not gonna happen... the end is nigh! Optimism is the new delusion!

[@Darth_Bateman]

A karen is just a woman who is unloved because she has an insane ego. And she has an insane ego because she is unloved. The only way out of her pain is to remove her ego, but she won’t.

[@BuckNut-ck1sl]

"Unloved woman" Only 00000.1% of women can be qualified as such in modern society.

[@ignacev8x]

They cant, it's become who they are, removing it would be like removing the roots of a plant, it'd just perish alltogether, dont think many havent tried to love these creatures in their time, they are unloved because they are genuinely unlovable.

[@outdoorfr3ak]

My mom is like that, not super insane but still very bad. I had to walk away from my parents for now

[@Darth_Bateman]

@@outdoorfr3ak I'm sorry. :(

[@crhu319]

Only Buddha can solve this.

[@BigPatFenis_]

I remember when I was 18 and worked retail at my local Target. There was this small clique of Karen’s who worked in the customer service/returns department. They were all middle aged (40-55), overweight and unmarried. We had a clipboard with a “customer pick up” sheet that was used for outbound products that customers would order and pick up later in person. I once left the clipboard on the table above the slot it normally goes in because I was leaving work and was in a rush, a simple mistake. One of the Karen’s then yelled at me from across the store, in front of customers for me to walk all the way back and move it 6 inches down into the slot when she was standing right there. I asked her “would you mind putting the clipboard in the slot for me? I would appreciate it, I have to leave right now.” To which she replied, in front of probably 20 customers “IM NOT YOUR *SLAVE* GET OVER HERE AND DO IT YOURSELF!” My coworkers and I were in complete shock. She likened having to move and item 6 inches downwards into a slot below the desk to literal slavery. Even the customers were in disbelief over this, you could see it in their faces. The entitlement is real. The attitude is real. They are some of the most insufferable people in existence. This was 10 years ago and I remember it like it happened yesterday.

[@curtiskretzer8898]

Let me guess. It still had valve stems in the tires of it's personal conveyanceafter that excahnge. Karen abides because people refuse to reap revenge from zheir poison seed of unneighborlyness. Did I get her fwagotty assed twit pronouns right @ least?Asking for a friend!

[@benwinter2420]

Sounds like a Joseph Conrad short story . . history repeats

[@curtis5799]

Moment of silence for all managers that are summoned by the Karen.

[@matg9844]

I dealt with one today. Just speak in short robotic bursts. It drives them nuts but they have nothing to crucify you for.

[@nietzschebietzsche]

The connection of Karen's and bureacracy is definitely strong. That's part of the reason I hate them so much, because Karens actually lend legitimacy to bureaucrats. I've started calling HOAs Karen Mafias

[@madmanvarietyshow9605]

Karen Mafia is legit the funniest, most accurate thing I've read all week 😂

[@ethanmoon3925]

Someone said "we live in HR world now". Human Resources and Karens have same energy - control and conformity.

[@nietzschebietzsche]

@@ethanmoon3925 *sigh* yeah, I was talking to relatives in public education telling me about all the absurd evaluations, and the double-triple-quadruple standards (telling teachers to be creative and original and telling them to teach a very rigid set of standards with predefined materials, etc.). A perfect example of what Rudyard was talking about where the purpose of the bureaucrats is to sustain the bureaucracy that employs their useless asses (that's why their county pays for these assholes called instructional coaches who just go around bothering teachers to offer "help"). I think Franz Kafka would even be shocked by the level at which bureaucracy has proliferated.

[@juniorjames7076]

Recently discovered a indie pop band called TV Girl. Their music is incredible- and its been years since I've been impressed by any new American band. Its an all male band, but they have female guest vocals. They are rising in popularity across all gender demographics. Well apparently there are now rising "journal articles" claiming the bands music is "misogynistic" (?!?!). Karen's (and their Beta Simp male enablers) simply cannot have good music being produced. They CAN'T have it. Ha ha.

[@badart3204]

@@nietzschebietzscheon some level yes bureaucracy seeks to perpetuate itself just like any other pseudo social organism. All groups do this such as the Samurai when they were phased out during the Meiji period. That being said they do serve larger societal functions as organizing a complex society is hard.

[@donm5354]

I feel BAD for my cousin who's name is actually KAREN.

[@gamergal8220]

@@HedonisticPuritan-mp6xvcrazy cuz I feel like every Karen I have met has been sweet.

[@belstar1128]

i hope nobody ever makes up something with the same name as me they were going to name me bart but changed their minds because the Simpsons were super popular

[@latinhero1818]

Before Karen became a meme, if you asked me about Karen, the first image I’d have was Karen Carpenter and her pure voice. That’s one Karen I’d feel terrible for today.

[@AkiraNakamoto]

@@latinhero1818 Me too. Karen used to be a good name.

[@hismajesty6272]

My friend’s mom is named that too.

[@andrjsh]

On my delivery route is a house waving a flag that reads, "My Neighbor is a Karen". It says something that there is a market for this product.

[@peterise192]

That's how Boeing destroyed itself, replace engineers with "managers"

[@cmt6997]

Sort of. Boeing became top heavy as a lot of the lower level jobs were automated but the management structure was preserved. And as many of the boomer managers retired, many of the better engineers saw it as an opportunity to advance and became managers themselves. Leaving Boeing devoid of any ground floor talent.

[@TheScotian82]

Ive been saying it for years. The Bureaucracy. Its suffocating. Now I say, "AFUERA!!"

[@moritamikamikara3879]

"The Scotian" Saying that. You sure you're not argentinian...?

[@ZM-jb6gc]

I know we hear Karen and think "US HR woman". But where Rudyard's analysis purely and deeply applies is to the EU which is ravaging European nations hardcore without self-awareness or any accountability. It's not just the power of bureaucracy, but their culture of low-information monoculture.

[@crhu319]

Karens of NATO.

[@crhu319]

Yup no one expects van der Leyen, Baerbock, Kallas, Truss or Marin to go fight on the front lines. But they will all shriek "Crimea".

[@phatpat63]

@@crhu319 The conceit of people who never have been, and never will be, on the hook to fight for their countries being able to vote or hold political office is hands down the most insane facet of the modern world.

[@rex9288]

@@phatpat63 we all act like its normal but we know were headed off a cliff

[@gueditoguey]

Men also stay in awful loveless marriages because they believe it is the protect and honorable thing to do. They made a commitment and even though it went to shit, they gave their word and that matters to men of honor and integrity.

[@TheTwitch1000]

Working at a kiosk in a wholesale retailer, this video speaks to me immensely. It’s hard for me to see how meaningless and trivial the lives of these consumers are. Even if I try to bring up a topic somewhat interesting or “intellectual” their eyes glaze over and they don’t take in anything I say. Really makes the world feel lonely when you live in a nihilistic suburban hell

[@comment8767]

Many Karens think they are intellectuals.

[@90000cg]

Women, in general, are not evolved to look outward at the big picture. Men are more philosophical because physical threats or game opportunities from outside the group selected for survival. Men had to develop more abstract strategies for defense and hunting.

[@TheTwitch1000]

@@90000cg I try bringing this up to some lady friends to see what they think but they’re mostly girl-boss-man-haters so they don’t like talking about it. I just think men and women have evolved to excel at different things and there’s nothing wrong with that

[@oppmagnet7]

A “Karen” summoned the campus police on me even though I hadn’t committed a crime, and I was technically her coworker at the time. I lost my job. She didn’t 😭

[@henryneubert7798]

Why did you lose your job? And couldn't you talk to the policemen that you want to report her for abuse of calling authorities?

[@user-zj6tl2jt9h]

A karen got me charged with pub intox for walking one block from my cousins to my house on my birthday for 2 beers 2 hours prior. The cops roughed me up pretty bad too, I still don't know what she said but her name was on the paper stating I was doing a lot of shit I wasn't. No attorney would take the case because they "Didn't want to piss off the police". It's bad out here. Check out Madison V. Weaver for context of the s---- they get away with. Still can't feel 2 of my fingers.

[@henryneubert7798]

@@user-zj6tl2jt9h Which country are you from? I will never enter it again, if your story is true.

[@SydneyBristow0788]

More details please.... sorry you lost your job

[@Grimmlocked]

Lol probably the United States bud... @@henryneubert7798

[@TR-zx1lc]

Women use self-harm as a conflict resolution strategy.

[@sonicleaves]

How?

[@ethank.3201]

@@sonicleaves”If you leave me I’m literally gonna kill myself”

[@sonicleaves]

@@ethank.3201 Run from that bs, and never look back.

[@user-zj6tl2jt9h]

@@sonicleaves They punch or scratch themselves then threaten to call the state on you.

[@pablobro5944]

@@ethank.3201 Men say that much more often. That makes sense though, since it works on women much more often because they're more emotional and empathetic

[@sethevans5318]

The toxic man: the tyrant The toxic woman: the parasite.

[@psychedelicspirituality]

I was in the woods in a park literally taking a picture of a poisonous flower when some Karen shouted at me that foraging isn't allowed in the park. My response was, "I'm taking pictures so mind your fucking business."

[@Izanagi057]

“Something I hate and I would ban if I was dictator” 😂😂😂 this cracked me up.

[@monkeyladder]

11:53 This point really got me thinking. I've noticed woke left types never acknowledge wins and downplay historic moves in their own direction, describing things that really should have been viewed as miracles from their perspective, like the widespread acceptance of gay people, as "bare minimum" or "basic decently". They don't show gratitude for people who support their cause, again, downplaying it as "bare minimum". Third world nationalists, will still be super grateful if you throw support their way, like Indian nationalists still praising Russia or Albanians singing about America, but woke leftists? Never

[@PodreyJenkin138]

Because the acknowledgement that they are in charge and won the culture means that they are responsible for everything and it removes their victim hood status

[@literallynothinghere9089]

Yes people in India support Russia because it consistently supporter us throughout the cold war and after that But leftists will abandon you if you even adhere to a different ideology of Marxism

[@noxplay4906]

Because their culture doesn't encourage gratitude, it pushes a victimhood mentality. If the followers of wokeism felt gratitude the movement wouldn't have as much power over them, it'd be harder to keep them addled due to their own sorrows and grievances with life in general, they'd be more empowered and independent and thus harder to control. Feeling grateful is one of the ultimate sins in their philosophy, if you feel grateful, you're ignoring systemic injustice and you have internalized misogyny or whatever the frick they say. They literally socially shame people for feeling a positive emotion

[@nyetzdyec3391]

It's the envy... and victim (V) mentality (VM). The envy is a major driving mechanism of the VM. It is a very large part of what causes them to feel like V's. The envy and VM also reduces their empathy and compassion, while also increasing stress... which causes them to be far more likely to be... rude (to put it mildly) themselves. The VM also makes them feel entitled to things, as a form of recompense, and that feeling of being *entitled* basically negates any feeling of gratitude or appreciation.

[@Shiftinggers]

The Revolution never stops comrade

[@finoxb944]

So... if we get rid of the bureaucracy then we also get rid of Karens.... I think I may have found the crusade I'm willing to die in.

[@fafnir7149]

Bro you've been 22 since forever

[@thequantitychannel1299]

He is 2001

[@tomhalla426]

As a contractor, I had to deal with a few Karens, mostly on jobs I was subcontracting. Avoiding people like that is important to avoid in the estimating process, as some people cannot be satisfied, and want a target, not the home improvement.

[@hosmerhomeboy]

Oh man. The worst. When I do sidewalks, there's sometimes a neighborhood Karen. There was one old drunk, she'd sit there complaining. I did a patch (literally 3 cu ft of concrete) in front of her place and she made it such a giant problem and caused so much drama that I had to cancel a dig to go babysit her. Had it been for her or her complex and not the city, I would have simply ripped it out and told her she doesn't deserve a sidewalk. It was so bad that in the time it took me to go get a hose to clean up (mine was slightly too short) she'd phoned public works, the mayor, some council, and the complex manager and was ranting at all of them when I returned with a new longer hose. Complaining that I hadn't cleaned up.

[@ndGoodNite]

You don't negotiate with terrorists.

[@The_Original_TP]

I’ve been doing residential construction for 10 years now roughly. Anytime I go to a sales call with a potential customer I make small talk. Basic politics, if one of the neighbors yards is over grown I’ll bring up the HOA, I ask how long they’ve lived in the area, where they’re from, etc… All of it is a ruse to feel the customer out so I have an idea of who I’m dealing with. If they are someone I’ve decided I don’t want to do business with I simply and nicely tell them I do not think I’m right person for the job and I offer them a couple referrals. I’ve found giving a higher bid in an attempt to not do a job for a bad customer just makes things worse, you always get stuck with the ones you don’t want lmao.

[@ArchADB]

So important. I had a furniture manufacturing company. You have to learn to spot these people and avoid like the plague

[@tomhalla426]

@@The_Original_TP I had one woman go on about her “environmental illness”, i. e believing she was allergic to everything. It was for inside painting. OMG, hell no!

[@hannesocallaghan]

I work in a pub, and I can smell the Caren when she or a group come up to order: they’ll tell you how exactly how to prepare their drink, or they’ll order a simple drink but tell you in a convoluted or unnecessary way. At minimum they love to make nuisance with their presence, and will throw a long order at your head with as many words as possible. My remedy is for the “explaining how to prepare the drink” is ignore them and prepare the drink perfectly anyway. Waste their breath. Then if they order a simple drink with lots of words I repeat the order to them in a simpler way and confirm. And if they come at me with a massive order, I interrupt them half way and say “ok let me get the first drinks and I’ll come back to you”. In the end they all just try to be a nuisance, make their presence an inconvenience, because they feel good and are self entitled. In general all the baby boomers and Karen’s are self entitled, arrogant, superiority complex driven, and often disdainful of your presence even though you didn’t say a single word to them . I keep my interaction with them down to the bare bones minimum, they are not nice people to befriend.

[@weignerleigner3037]

Well put. I worked in a ups store and same shet. If they needed to return a online shipping order, instead of just dropping it off and taking a tracking receipt, they felt it necessary to explain what they purchased, why they purchased it, why it’s very important that I make sure it gets returned, and what will happen if it does not. And as you said they say everything in a purposefully convoluted confusing way so you come off as not understanding and not knowing what you are doing so it gives them a right to demand a manager or treat you as if you are stupid. And for how important these small things are to them, never will they tell you how thankful they are that you helped them. They will come back and continue to do the same bull crap.

[@Grubnar]

"And if they come at me with a massive order, I interrupt them half way and say “ok let me get the first drinks and I’ll come back to you”. " That is brilliant!

[@ecmorgan69]

“How come the guy who has the stamp collection gets mocked but not the kid in the Furry suit?” Truer words have never been spoken, brother. I’m so glad I’m a GenXer because we never would’ve put up with that shit when I was in school in the 80s. 😆

[@josepheridu3322]

I would say that almost all women are Karens, but actual Karens lost the pretty privilege that made others not hate them.

[@apc9714]

You forgot the most important point: women from the 60s are (orr have been for a long time) the backbone of primary and. secondary education, spending by far more time with generations of kids than any other demographic

[@crystalnelson314]

It's amazing how much of "progress" has actually made people miserable and mentally unwell.

[@PodreyJenkin138]

Because it was never really postove progress 1 all progressive and coopted liberal ideals are basically the opposite of the values that make a gritty, successful and tranquil person (this is intentional) 2 progress doesn't mean good or bad Progress only means you are moving closer to something You can "progress" off a cliff a serial killer "progresses" when he cuts up a body to hide it better

[@sum1337]

all part of the ''wall e plan ''

[@PodreyJenkin138]

KZbin hid my comment

[@PodreyJenkin138]

It's intentional

[@crystalnelson314]

@@PodreyJenkin138 yeah it encourages more mindless spending and short term thinking, just like inflation does

[@bottledwater4484]

I'll be reporting this video to the manager.

[@jirislavicek9954]

👍👍👍

[@ConnorOfDestruction]

dawg, i was a retail wagie manager in college (managed a staples) and the reason management caves to karens is because theyll get canned if they dont by management above them

[@graham167]

A "gaggle" of geese. A "murder" of crows. What do you call a group of Karens? Well, their attempts to form a stable dominance hierarchy would fail as they start to turn on each other. So, I will borrow a term from The Hunger Games and call their group a "reaping".

[@yinu778]

Mob. A mob of karens

[@brianmay1876]

"A Carping of Karens".

[@rext3404]

A reaping of Karen's. So shall it be said, hence forth!

[@yinu778]

Mob. A mob of karens

[@celiacresswell6909]

@@brianmay1876a snark of karens

[@gwenderp6229]

Breaking it down to envy being the source of this all is so true. I also really like how you reinforced the idea of GSR playing into envy as well. The closing statements about Karens being like witches is funny because a lot these types share memes like "wE'rE tHe GrAnDaUgHtErS oF tHe WiTcHeS yOu DiDnT bUrN"

[@curtiskretzer8898]

GSR? Gun Shot Residue!Got it!

[@Sienna6164]

I bet ya Karen’s were outspoken feminists back in the day. Honestly, all of the modern feminists are just in their adolescent stage of Karenhood, with high school being the Karen training ground, and the HOA being the the university for one’s Karen degree.

[@thomasbonnett4800]

It’s ironic that I’m listening to this just as a female peer told me she’d like to move somewhere “with more quality for women like Sweden, Denmark, or Italy.” I told her “Well, women do have it pretty bad here, what with no women running companies or anything.” My company is run almost exclusively by women, and it shows. It’s odd to me that on one hand, we like to tout “female leadership,” yet on the other hand women seem to pride themselves on having bigger balls than the men when they reach the top. This as they push feel-good nonsense (like pronouns, for instance) that further erodes any ability (or willingness) to admit inherent differences between sexes. I don’t want to hear the “I am woman, hear me roar” nonsense if you’re at the same time saying with a straight face that a biological man is a woman, just cuz he says so. What we see unfolding around us is what happens when nature’s balance is upset. We’re $40 trillion in debt (on the books) with pocketbooks stuffed full of fiat currency. We have neutered men at the exact wrong moment in history. Some will classify this as woman hating, but on the contrary I love and respect women greatly. I’m in no way saying they shouldn’t or can’t lead. I’m simply saying that by denying there are gender differences, we’re setting ourselves up for a rude awakening.

[@heretic0014]

Next video: The Anthropology of Cougars

[@Peak_Aussieman]

Lol

[@t.h.2906]

Yes next video

[@ryco1865]

They can be one in the same.

[@ZX-Gear]

That would be interesting to look at. I have been seeing the rise of the Hag Love Trend and it would be a nice topic to dive deep into.

[@transforgoku]

*The Coming Based Revolution* 🤩🤩🤩

[@maxwillson]

When this Karen meme broke out in 2020 I laughed so hard because at the time I worked with a reporter who's name happened to be Karen and she was an exact Karen. White, wealthy Liberal and no fun. She hated everything I did because I'm goofy, I don't care what others think ahahaha

[@fergalcussen]

It's the menopause

[@dontcomply3976]

Maybe I am mistaken, but I thought it was a few years older.

[@dandandandandanJr]

This makes so much sense. I had a coworker tell me she couldn't lose weight because of hormones. I layer saw her dumping salad dressing on her salad and she mentioned she has a good addiction. Viewing this as a female power play makes so much more sense.

[@hansblitz7770]

If encountering a Karen, here is the tactic to win. It is called, Out Karenning The Karen. Okay. So, essentially this involves preemptive judicial and bureaucratic attacks on the Karen. If the Karen is a coworker, and the Karen has revealed itself as more than just a nuisance, complain, file an official complaint with an official documented paper trail and undeniable transactions with leadership. This puts the Karen on the backfoot, and anything it would normally do would appear to be retaliation. If the Karen is a stranger, customer, or other. Make a police report. Request a protection order. The system has to document this and go through the motions. Again, similar results. The system assumes the first to complain is the victim, the accused is the assailant. Anything the accused does or says or claims is a defensive retaliatory reaction for what must be a legitimate claim. Tips: falsely claim to be a member of a protected group, and that the Karen challenged or insulted this group that you are a part of. These preemptive measures confuse the entire system and put it on the backfoot, reacting to a stimulus it is not familiar with, a man, becoming a Karen.

[@phoneticau]

Feminism has enabled Karens, Feminism gave women social and political empowerment and by effect allowed Karens to thrive

[@LukeLongboneOfficial]

True. But men allowed feminism.

[@alissiarosadelaguatl6140]

Feminism isn't bad though This isn't a point against feminism such as just existing allows stuff like murder.

[@Doberman_6773]

Women's rights are dependent on men enforcing those rights.

[@thomasdevine867]

Karens precede modern Feminism. Karen is a new name for an old phenomenon. The busybodies with power and status and a taste for bullying people have long been around. The Women's Christian Temperance Union was an alliance of Karens. They managed to delay votes for women by associating political women with prudish cruelty. People in the late 19th century spent years in jail for defining the will

[@umwha]

No. The Karen is someone who is weak. Someone who deeply feels nobody is caring about what she wants , who feels the businesses around her are out to get her, who’s only power is the weapons of the weak: telling the manager. If she was truly empowered she would be different . Karen is simply the modern version of the traditional woman who would always have to tell her husband- now she tells the manager but it’s the same weak tactic

[@user-yv4mm6bx3c]

The Karen really is just the old maid who couldn't lock down the man she really wanted when she was younger and prettier.

[@suvajeetdatta1220]

I think no one has gone deeper into the psyche of the gamer/nerd/neet crowd than Dr K

[@yingle6027]

The rapid consumption and consumerism is perhaps the worst trait. Virtue signalling about the environment on social media while the other tab is processing the order for that new couch she doesn't need.

[@michaelxu7951]

I’ve interacted with a lot of annoying and obnoxious Karens in my retail job at a grocery store

[@thorpeaaron1110]

That's their hang out spot.

[@gabingston3430]

I'm about to start working at a big box store, karens are one of the things I'm dreading about it.

[@Maytrx]

You need to get a Karen on your team to go deal with the unruly customers or shoplifters.

[@jamesondoggomus4023]

I have over twenty years in grocery retail, I feel your pain.

[@aaz1992]

Same. 5 years

[@charlescaine6022]

The Karens of the past were the keepers of the morality of Society. Now that Society has decided there is no such thing as morality, Karens (like college kids) have only trivial things to fight against.

[@daves1A1killer]

One call out. I recently finished reading "The Wager". 1. It's not a sociology book, it's more historical fiction. 2. It's a fun read that has nothing to do with politics. Don't mean to ironically be a Karen, just don't want your viewers to miss out on a good read because they assume it's something it isn't!

[@hugothepoet]

Surprised that the menopause didn’t get a look in as a mitigating factor in the mental stability of the Karen (Edit: should have been “aggravating” not “mitigating” factor)

[@fergalcussen]

It's the primary factor

[@hugothepoet]

@@fergalcussen indeed

[@sharonsloan]

Yep. Menopause gives you so many new aches and pains that ibuprofen is a necessity. The inner rage is at your own body, it just gets projected outwards in the women who think everything should go their way.

[@daisyviluck7932]

Prolly because most of these women he describes aren’t menopausal. All the women he shows in his pictures are young.

[@Krash845]

The head meds are a big factor, for sure

[@Igor4723]

Do the anthropology of simps. They are far more dangerous than karens.

[@stevecooper7883]

Even more pernicious, because they come from all over the globe and many of them will never face the consequences of their actions because they live in their parents basements using government benefits to throw at Only fans girls.

[@migueld8970]

Its about the same and simps are the children of Karens

[@Handyman1911]

We are all watching the decay of our society. So many feel utterly helpless against the ever encroaching debauchery. So, too many women (and men) feel compelled to exert pressure in the form of complaining against whatever ‘wrong’ they believe they can. Remarkably, that will always be something petty or insignificant, as those are the things that are easy, or worse (and more often), imagined. These Karens will never tackle the big things, the real problems, because that would be too hard, and would require actual work, thought, energy, sacrifice, and risk…risk of loss of position, status, finances, and security. Another exceptional analysis, Rudyard! It’s a genuine pleasure to watch your perspective mature!

[@frankherman5195]

Get rid of social media would be a good start.

[@mark-yj5sg]

Hard times make strong men Strong men create good times Good times create Karens

[@cdeist1]

The steel worker doesnt complain, because there are so few left. The modern day version would be like, amazon warehouse workees, gig economy people etc.

[@1stTnetix]

Dude i can’t believe your my favorite channel….life is entirely complex unforeseen rambunctious incredulous cruel and beautiful tranquil simple and to sit for hours in my mind and shuffle the cards of understanding and comprehension is my favorite sport and clearly many of you in here🙌🏿 love you guys!!!

[@yelsahblah3270]

As a woman, I have never used any of those female tactics but absolutely had them used against me for not being pretty or popular in school. Girls were always just the worst in school. I currently work in a job with only women and the emotional drama is just such a drag sometimes. It's just not fun when they aren't getting along and I feel like I'm stuck in the middle. Guys were generally easier to work with because I wasn't ever attractive enough to cause drama so I could do my job and just enjoy myself.

[@karnubawax]

"What?!? There's women watching this channel???" (hurriedly puts on pants...)

[@EMan-cu5zo]

Women can be brutal to each other over stupid stuff. They will also hold a grudge for a long time or some for life. Some things are understandable to be mad about but so many things they can’t put behind them.

[@sharonsloan]

The popular school girls were bad news for the rest of us.

[@randycool81]

I have never seen a group of women over 4 be able to cooperate with each other ever

[@Trizzer89]

Feminism has done a TERRIBLE job of increasing the bargaining power of women. That bargaining power is approaching ZERO as men gave up. Women who call other women 10s are being laughed out of relationships. By sleeping around freely, they ave given up their onl bargaining chip for marriage. Theyre so close to losing everything

[@ethank.3201]

And they will learn. But the great noticing has already begun.

[@nyetzdyec3391]

Oh, it did very well for them... for a while... which *does* seem like it might be, finally, beginning to come to an end. If that happens, it's going to be like hitting the wall... at high speed.

[@aaz1992]

Can only reverse course at rock bottom eh

[@rext3404]

This is why women overwhelming support socialism. If they can't get a man to provide for them, they're fine with daddy government providing for them.

[@_Dovar_]

​@@ethank.3201 You know that "noticing" doesn't refer to feminism, but to "the juice", right?

[@RenScorch]

I use to part of that "Management class" and let me tell you, the reason why good managers never last is because they get crushed by the company if they do anything that is not "Approved"

[@iainstewart781]

Great video Rudyard. Your channel is improving so much year on year. Well done dude.

[@Napalm6b]

I'm 46 years old. My first video game console was a Commodore Vic 20, played D&D, collected comics in the 80s. Ha, I'll write the study of nerd culture. Also, I find your analysis of culture from the Gen Z perspective really fascinating. Thanks for your work!

[@frankjoyce76]

oh my gosh i'm about the same age and feel the same about Gen Z perspective. its great to know I'm not alone in seeing multiple generations seeing the world the same way :)

[@LukeLongboneOfficial]

He’s getting his thoughts and concepts more clarified in each video it seems. I guess there’s a bias, but I believe a lot of his ideas resonate with my own observations and experiences. Things have changed.

[@gaiuszeno1331]

I dont think the VIC was a video game console. It literally boots into a BASIC command line interpreter.

[@Napalm6b]

@@gaiuszeno1331 You are correct. It was a hobbiest programming computer. It came with the spiral bound manual with all the code to Space Invaders in the back. You could purchase a cassette tape drive for permanent data storage. There was no HD. Like the Atari, it had a cartridge port on the back for games. My uncle bought it as a gift to the family. Because we didn't have a word processing program or persistent storage we only used it to play games.

[@Entelechhhy]

Oh I had a Commodore 64. Just redownloaded Zork

[@JAYg33t4r]

I would like to speak to the manager of your constant upward inflection that never gives me resolution to your sentences and feels like they all end with commas,

[@danilopaes4058]

I think it's a bunch of audios previously recorded and clashed together

[@azouitinesaad3856]

manager here. i think the way he record and edit his audio makes it sound like that.

[@gfsquall]

Dammit, now I hear a bunch of commas.

[@scottytoohotty7617]

🤣

[@thetapheonix]

I see what you did there.

[@joesmalley397]

I've just spent two weeks in Cape Town and can I confirm South African Karens are the worst on the planet.

[@keitheppichphd6784]

What an insightful talk. And the funny thing is that mainstream anthropology, academic anthropology, is almost completely dominated by Karens.

[@timothybrown820]

Have you noticed that more Karens are of the Boomer Generation? There's a certain level of entitlement that comes from that generation in general, especially among the Karen types.

[@finn6492]

they had everything handed too them. what would you expect

[@Doberman_6773]

Who could have foreseen such an outcome from a group that labeled themselves the "Me Generation"?

[@fergalcussen]

They tend to be Gen X. They're going through the menopause.

[@midosch7639]

I don't agree. Watch social media Gen X or Z content of toxic girls. Like classicly the short interview: How much should your husband gain? And then the young Karen's say sth like 5 Mio per year at least, otherwise he is not worth me. It's just not as obvious because some of them are good looking enough to get away with that.

[@midosch7639]

But the end form of Karen's that are complaining about everything are mostly in boomer generation, that's definitely true.

[@ddcardo]

I read a scifi once that had a genius that was raised in a stone age society. She moved to a steam age society thinking she had found people closer to her. She kept doing this until she wound up in an alien society and gave up. With each move she determined they weren't smarter. They just knew more.

[@ryanparker4996]

"Genius" "she" choose one

[@laststand6420]

Knowledge is not wisdom.

[@nyetzdyec3391]

No doubt that it was written by a feminist... since the MC was impossible to please... and no one was ever good enough.

[@keonkla]

@@nyetzdyec3391 Lol its so hilarious women who actually are smart enough to keep feminist views on the downlow in their personal online information think they are slick with the messaging, they aren't.

[@theBear89451]

Human diet through history: not enough food->well balanced meals->fast food US IQ peaked in the 1970s, primarily because of nutrition.

[@linctexpilot8337]

There are so many amazing points being made in this video - You could VERY easily break down various topics in this video - - into 20 other separate (more detailed) videos

[@phatpat63]

Another real banger Rudyard. This also addressed a lot of minor criticisms I've had for several other of your videos over not really mentioning where in society X or Y problem is really coming from.

[@eduardogutierrez4698]

So can we normalize calling Steven to kind-hearted men who are the complete opposite of Karens? You know..the most wholesome men are named Steven (Steven Carell, Steve Irwin, Steve Rogers...)

[@williaminnes6635]

sounds too much like "Scumbag Steve" from the meme of the guy with the chin strap beard and the Burberry hat "Greg" would make more sense. Work always with memetic synchronicity, not against it.

[@Bombadil-ez9ns]

If you can find it, watch The Tao of Steve.

[@ethank.3201]

I literally talked about this with my brother today in the question “Have you ever met a dickbag named Steve?” I haven’t either. Steven Seagal is the only exception.

[@Tier1Slacker]

Every Steven I know is wild! One got stoned in the Bible, one got stoned in real life and one thought he knew everything

[@jw6588]

I think I prefer Luke or Matthew

[@GoldenSpoon109]

Having worked 6+ years of fast food, retail and warehouse work, I can confirm Karens are real and are a threat. You can just eat the pickles.

[@sharonsloan]

Or accept that the employee, probably minimum wage, it told by those much higher up than anyone in the building to add pickles. Just pick the thing out if you don't want to eat it. Used to make pizzas for a large supermarket deli counter. There were pictures to follow so all the same pizzas looked identical 🙄🤷‍♀️

[@coreydonohoe8121]

If you can't get the orders right you are in the wrong line of work. Karens are annoying and delusional but that is no excuse for poor service

[@kaptainwarp]

I'm a manly man, destructor of Karens. However, she does have a point about pickles on a burger.

[@Littlegoatpaws]

No, pickles are good. It's those itty bitty little pickled onion bits from McDonald's you can't pick out that I always ask not to be put on and about 10% of the time I still get them anyway. Actually really annoys me and I was in fast food for many years.

[@Enjoymentboy]

I used to be "the manager" for tv and Internet tech support and I LOVED it when a Karen would demand to speak with me because i Was the LAST manger they would want to interact with. I don't like people as a general rule so whenever I would encounter a Karen I would actively go out of my way to do the exact opposite of what they wanted unless it was directly against the rules my job required. I almost never was as I pretty much had free reign to decide how to deal with things On more than one occasion the Karen in question would threaten to cancel their business and I NEVER argued. In fact I would just tell them that I understood and to please hold on while I got my cancellations team on the line. I'd get the rep I needed and, with Karen on the line, advise the rep what had happened and that the customer has decided to cancel so please process an immediate cancellation Without question Karen would go on with "you're not even going to TRY to stop me from cancelling?" to which I'd respond with "You made your demands and I told you my options. You made it clear that my options were not acceptable and you were going to cancel so here we are. I have an agent ready to cancel your account and ask you need to do it clearly state that you wish to cancel and we will take care of everything else".

[@aliasjones6381]

There used to be another word for managers, and that word is steward. It is not the managerial class itself that is the problem, it is the godless and unaccountable mindset behind it. Everything in my life, even the things that I "own", even my very life, I am merely the steward of. I was born with certain talents, and when I die they will go back from whence they came, and I will be held accountable for how I treated the things I "owned". I am only a steward, and one day the King will return.

[@hathwayh3209]

Bureaucracy=woman Just for anyone confused

[@Grubnar]

The Bureaucracy creates many meaningless jobs. Perfect for women that have no skills or talents. It is a match made in Hell!

[@rhogal8310]

woman = evil And that guy is supposed to not be an incel XD

[@huskyflylangley6053]

I grew up GenX- the tweener, forgotten generation, great family, caring, but encouraging of independence. Gone all day alone or with neighborhood kids, no internet, paper route at age 12, loading sulfur in WW2 Stearman crop dusters at age 16, learning as I went. Our Generation will be forgotten as Boomers and Millennials duke it out. Thank God I grew up 'forgotten.' I was obsolete when new, and can't stand Karens and their attitude.

[@jw6588]

Gen X wasn't "forgotten", you guys checked out and evaded responsibility, then shifted the blame to Millenials. You DESERVE to be forgotten for noticing the corruption of the boomers (that's why Gen X was so edgy) and doing absolutely nothing to stop it (why they ultimately amount to being "between" Boomers and Millenials and little else). You left it to the later generations to turn the tide. So pathetic. At least Millenials have done something even if mostly bad.

[@Krash845]

I fear we (gen x) will be viewed as the new boomer by the even younger generations.

[@recongraves]

Probably both (millennial here) they don't like either of us. ​@@Krash845

[@LaurentCourtines]

We are the lowest birth year group. 1974 was the lowest birther year in the 25 years prior. Bad economy, row v wade past... Being a small cohort, we were like Christians in the Roman empire... Get along to get along.

[@jw6588]

​@@LaurentCourtinesExcuse, excuse, excuse...

[@Pikwhip]

Wow, this was a brilliant analysis! Thanks from your newest subscriber.

[@AB-un4io]

You are a brilliant young man. I’m so impressed by your ability to put these highly informative videos out so consistently. I don’t comment often as I’ll admit to being a bit intimidated but I had to comment on this one. It’s another spot-on analysis. I am considered a “Karen” on paper, lol. In real life though I can’t stand them! I was raised by a bunch of ignorant boomers and I’ve spent a lot of years trying to correct many learned but unwanted coping mechanisms with varying degrees of success. I’m a deep thinker and an introvert; both of which are decidedly not celebrated in this society. This was fabulous, Rudyard, and I hope it gets many views and likes. But I hope even more that it is real food for thought for people. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

[@careyfreeman5056]

A little anecdotal evidence of how different it was. I remember, at 10yo (I'm 56), being thrilled that I could finally ride my bike to school, 2 miles away and across a major road. My best friend and I did it every day (weather permitting) and absolutely loved every minute.

[@leandersearle5094]

I think it's interesting how absolutely every virtue is either actively under attack or downplayed. Honesty? Offensive to the core. Humility? Death sentence. Patience? Waste of time/ignoring the problem. Chastity? Passé. Mercy? Weakness. Gratitude? Alien. Courage? Falsified. Inquisitiveness? Impugnation. There is not permitted a single way to be good. Actual evil is excused or "made gray." Reality, which checks all delusions in time, is fashioned into an illusion. Bureaucracy is the road to hell.

[@Blakmagic88]

This is an awesome comment…

[@GoldenSpoon109]

amen to this. The incentive structures are off-balance.

[@phatpat63]

This should be the least surprising thing in the world when no one is held accountable for acting out of line.

[@leandersearle5094]

@@phatpat63 Not surprising, interesting. The only thing surprising is what the tipping point was. If you're looking at recent history, you would've expected Y2K (mass media panic that turned out to be nothing) or the Iraq War heel-turn (full war drums to full anti-war in an instant) to snap people out of it, but it took Twatter and Farcebook.

[@sneedle252]

@@leandersearle5094 For me, the final thing was going from a brown scare in the late 2010s to apologia and open funding and support in the early 2020s.

[@winstonslone2797]

I'm 42 it used to be very different. In my opinion it started getting bad around 2007. I miss the 90s. I fund it admirable you walked the whole trail. Glad to see a sane young man.

[@ZONE-KING-64-ew9uv]

"That’s a pretty reckless claim but watch the video to See me back it up” Literally just a video of him twerking 2:08

[@WhatifAltHist]

I’m so white I never even thought of this loln

[@ethank.3201]

@@WhatifAltHistGo rudyard! Go rudyard!

[@ethank.3201]

@@WhatifAltHistGo rudyard! Go rudyard!

[@RandallvanOosten-ln5wf]

Great analysis. By the way, there is a whole genre of police video-cams about "Karen's" making such a ruckus that they get arrested. These are "real" situations. Usually, these are women who are generally insufferable but, when they drink too much, cause chaos. Some of the most amazing encounters take place in airports at the ticket counters or on the actual airplanes.

[@LynetteTheMadScientist]

In a healthy society, people “cringe” at morally reprehensible things rather than objectively Good things

[@raddimusmcchoyber3362]

One of the reasons i love my wife so much is that she is so free of the typical grinding, all-encompasing neurosis that grips so many women these days. She was a tomboy by inclination and her Dad taught her to change her own oil, how to pitch her own tent etc. Crucially he also instilled in her that men are bigger and stronger, and you aren't Supergirl, so don't go jumping out of your car to scream at some guy who cuts you off, cause the wrong one might twist your head off like a bottle cap. Meeting her was like a cool drink of water after wandering the dating desert.

[@ainslieberrafella]

@2:09 - My ex-wife turned 50 today and she has a Karen haircut, so she's right in the Karen sweet spot. Like most Karens she probably unaware, although she's typically quite friendly in person - unless you're divorcing her, of course, then it's flamethrowers at Iwo Jima stuff.

[@ndGoodNite]

Children of Karen's either become emo's or a spaz

[@recongraves]

Facts 🎉

[@pong9000]

Can attest.

[@peaches8829]

I ran into a Karen about a year ago. I’m a combat vet and when that thing started I went blank and the look in my eyes, I think she realised she’d fucked up and immediately walked away, I never said a word. Some other people saw it and said they went cold. I am starting to think Muslim countries have it right

[@castirondude]

One time I had this Karen lady go nuclear and call the cops on me. The cop came and just went "uhuh. uhuh. okay..." and kind of rolled his eyes. When the Karen lady realized they weren't going to be doing anything she left so me and the cop hung out and had a fun time for 20 minutes after that. Like Rudyard says with the Leviathans, they have no real power. They only have power through intimidation and manipulation. If people see through it and refuse to go along then they are completely powerless.

[@Maytrx]

"What I remember about the rise of the Empire is... is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Clone Wars, the 501st Legion was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word." - Operation: Knightfall "Knightfall" - Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)

[@ante5544]

Thanks, buddy. Can always count on seeing you post this in the comments section

[@bevbevan6189]

Your commitment is an inspiration to us all.

[@belstar1128]

starwars is not very realistic

[@darrylbonner7208]

@@belstar1128no, but some moments that hit hard.

[@gaiuszeno1331]

​@@belstar1128Idk about that. The ultimate evil guy in Star Wars was a politician.

[@bob_peterson3798]

The only real way I can see stopping Karen’s is not taking a part in their demands. Just let them leave your business and let them be insufferable to your competition

[@danielmaher964]

Thanks, I was looking for advice on managing Karens

[@bob_peterson3798]

@@jpd9355 i lived with one growing up so I know the ins and out of how they act. At some point they get frustrated say they going to leave a bad review or tell their friends but it’s best if they don’t come back

[@hardwing]

I didn't really expect the deepness of this video! Connecting it to managerism is so obvious in hindsight. Respect!