Most Common Female First Names in the U.S.

Yes but why have the names diversified so much?

The names diversified due to a larger amount of people from other countries and ethinicities as well. Only Maria is a spanish name here, I believe than now names such as Isabella are way more common due to the Mexicans. Add to that names like LaBarbara that virtually did not exist some years ago and to the custom of naming diferent names other than the grandparents and you have your diversity.

They are 2 years older now.

hahahaha

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In other words, a little under a googol.

Also sadly, the most famous Betty is dead now.

My mother is named Karen.

It's not racist, it's stereotypical. They are largely different words kal, as I thought you'd be aware.

How Karen specifically got chosen is probably due to Reddit or other social media platform, but it essentially only applies to conservative mothers in the United States due to their proclivity to "speak to the manager." More specifically, it applies to women who are baby boomers/generation x which are generations that have been proven to expect to be handed things unfairly because they "deserve the respect" or because they feel superior to the workforce which is oftentimes in much younger generations than them. This could also be an age gap thing as opposed to a generational one.

It would be racist to assume all white women are, or only white women can be, "Karens" for example. It is not, however, racist to denigrate a person based on their haircut, and/or overall personality, especially when the examples go beyond picture evidence into videos of genuinely disrespectful behavior

It is racist. What you just typed convinced me. When have you seen a "black" woman accused of being a "Karen?"

harlem, not really sure what you're on about. Sounds like you're being sarcastic? But I don't know what your point is.

Who did that joke? :-

I've been married 5 times, each time to a woman named Brenda.

It's a hell of a coincidence, and as my mother, Brenda, used to say...

Ah yes, the Karen race. Such a marginalized minority.

Ah yes, every racist term explicitly contains a race within it. Everyone knows that. Ergo... every racial slur you can probably think of but I'm not going to type... none of them are actually racist! Brilliant.

I'm not sure "Karen" is racist, but I don't think it's outrageous to suggest that it is. Some accusations of racism against other races are far more tenuous than what Kal is proposing. I think many accusations of racism are unfounded, but get taken seriously anyway. If you set the "Karen" thing among those many, many overstated accusations, it's not out of place. It certainly has a racial component to it.

We definitely live in a time when racism is over identified. But, simultaneously, we live in a time when racism is increasingly prevalent, obvious, out in the open... somewhat ironically those who tend to over-identify it in some places also are the ones who openly, proudly, unashamedly engage in it in other places. They might tell you that their racism isn't racism because racism is a system of oppression and the people they are racist against they've decided are not among the oppressed. But it's clearly racism. And even though these types also often claim to be against the racism they identify in others, they don't seem to understand that racism of any kind makes racism of all other kinds worse.