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This pancocojams post provides internet excerpts about the social meanings in the United States that have been given to the term "Chadbro" and the names "Karen & Ken Chadbro". A video of the couple who are referred to as "Karen & Ken Chadbro" (or "Ken & Karen Chadbro") is also included in this post.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-social-meanings-in-united-states-of.html for the closely related pancocojams post entitled "The Social Meanings In The United States Of The Names "Karen", "Becky", "Chad", "Kyle", & "Ken"
Also, click the tag "Karen and Becky memes" for other pancocojams posts about the social meanings of these names in the United States.
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THE SOCIAL MEANINGS OF VARIOUS NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES
These excerpts are numbered for referent purposes only.
Excerpt #1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(slang)
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Due to their characterisation as being genetically gifted and privileged—though sometimes depicted as shallow, air-headed, arrogant, and overtly sexual[13]—the term Chad is used in both a pejorative and complimentary way on incel forums.[14][15]
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Here's my correction for that first sentence: "A Chad, in derogatory slang, is a young urban American man, typically White, single and in his 20s or early 30s.[1
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Here's my correction of that first sentence: "A Chad, in derogatory slang, is a young urban American man, typically White, single and in his 20s or early 30s.[1]
The man who is referred to as "Ken Chadbro"* is a middle aged, affluent White man who might have fit the description given above for "Chad". However, that referent being used for that man now is more of a parody than an actual description.
*Read Excerpt #6 and watch the embedded video in this post.
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Excerpt #2
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chadbro
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Excerpt #4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_(slang)
..."Bro culture is a subculture of young men and adults who spend time partying with others like themselves.[1] Although the original image of the bro lifestyle is associated with sports apparel and fraternities, it lacks a consistent definition. Most aspects vary regionally such as in California where it overlaps with surf culture.[2] Oxford Dictionaries have noted that bros frequently self-identify with neologisms containing the word "bro" as a prefix or suffix.[1]
Social media users were quick to bestow the “Karen” and “Ken” monikers usually reserved for entitled white people upon the couple, lumping them in with the similarly armed white protesters who have descended upon statehouses and capitals in recent weeks to protest the injustice of being forced to wear masks in public. And, in the hours since the images of them circulated, mock-ups of Karen and Ken Chadbro as a movie poster (with special guest “Freedom Musket”) have started to quickly go viral.
This pancocojams post provides internet excerpts about the social meanings in the United States that have been given to the term "Chadbro" and the names "Karen & Ken Chadbro". A video of the couple who are referred to as "Karen & Ken Chadbro" (or "Ken & Karen Chadbro") is also included in this post.
The content of this post is presented for socio-cultural and linguistic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-social-meanings-in-united-states-of.html for the closely related pancocojams post entitled "The Social Meanings In The United States Of The Names "Karen", "Becky", "Chad", "Kyle", & "Ken"
Also, click the tag "Karen and Becky memes" for other pancocojams posts about the social meanings of these names in the United States.
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THE SOCIAL MEANINGS OF VARIOUS NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES
These excerpts are numbered for referent purposes only.
Excerpt #1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(slang)
"A Chad, in derogatory slang, is a young urban American man, typically White, single and in his 20s or early 30s.[1]
History
The term originated in Chicago, Illinois.[1][2] It was further covered by a satirical website dedicated to the Lincoln Park Chad Society, a fictional social club based in Chicago's upscale Lincoln Park neighborhood.[2] The female counterpart to the Chad, in slang, is the Trixie[3] or Stacy.[4][5][6][7] A Chad was originally depicted as originating in Chicago's affluent North Shore suburbs (Highland Park, Evanston, Deerfield, Northbrook, Glenview, Glencoe, Winnetka, Wilmette, or Lake Forest), receiving a BMW for his 16th birthday, obtaining a law or business degree from a Big Ten university, belonging to a fraternity, moving to Lincoln Park, marrying a Trixie, and then moving back to the North Suburbs.[8]
Manosphere
The term was later appropriated in incel forums to refer to sexually active "alpha males".[9] Within the manosphere, Chads are viewed as constituting the top decile in terms of genetic fitness.[10] In online animation drawings in the manosphere, a Chad is further tagged with the last name Thundercock and is often depicted as muscular with a very pronounced crotch bulge.[11]
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Due to their characterisation as being genetically gifted and privileged—though sometimes depicted as shallow, air-headed, arrogant, and overtly sexual[13]—the term Chad is used in both a pejorative and complimentary way on incel forums.[14][15]
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Here's my correction for that first sentence: "A Chad, in derogatory slang, is a young urban American man, typically White, single and in his 20s or early 30s.[1
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Here's my correction of that first sentence: "A Chad, in derogatory slang, is a young urban American man, typically White, single and in his 20s or early 30s.[1]
The man who is referred to as "Ken Chadbro"* is a middle aged, affluent White man who might have fit the description given above for "Chad". However, that referent being used for that man now is more of a parody than an actual description.
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Excerpt #2
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chadbro
Chadbro
The preppy, gotti white boys who always use bro to refer to one another. Except it usually sounds more like "bra." And they're usually named Chad.
M: Did you see the guy with the two polo shirts on, one over the other?
The preppy, gotti white boys who always use bro to refer to one another. Except it usually sounds more like "bra." And they're usually named Chad.
M: Did you see the guy with the two polo shirts on, one over the other?
E: Yeah, total chad bro.
by BrodyRose, August 23, 2007
by BrodyRose, August 23, 2007
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Excerpt #4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_(slang)
..."Bro culture is a subculture of young men and adults who spend time partying with others like themselves.[1] Although the original image of the bro lifestyle is associated with sports apparel and fraternities, it lacks a consistent definition. Most aspects vary regionally such as in California where it overlaps with surf culture.[2] Oxford Dictionaries have noted that bros frequently self-identify with neologisms containing the word "bro" as a prefix or suffix.[1]
Bro was originally an abbreviated form of the word brother but began to assume non-familial connotations in the 20th century.[1] In this evolution, it was first used to refer to another man, such as a "guy" or "fellow". In these ways, it was semantically similar to the use of "brother". In the 1970s, bro came to refer to a male friend rather than just another friend. The word became associated with young men who spend time partying with others like themselves.[1] Oxford Dictionaries identified the use of the term "bro" as the one "defining feature" of the changing cultural attributes of young manhood.[1]….
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Use as a pejorative
In a New York Magazine article in September 2013, Ann Friedman wrote: "Bro once meant something specific: a self-absorbed young white guy in board shorts with a taste for cheap beer. But it’s become a shorthand for the sort of privileged ignorance that thrives in groups dominated by wealthy, white, straight men."[5] The term bro culture has been adopted by the media to refer to a misogynist culture within an organization or community, such as occupational inequality in Silicon Valley.[6]"...
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Excerpt #5
https://www.vox.com/2020/2/5/21079162/karen-name-insult-meme-manager
Karen: The anti-vaxxer soccer mom with speak-to-the-manager hair, explained
Karen: The anti-vaxxer soccer mom with speak-to-the-manager hair, explained
How the name “Karen” became an insult — and a meme.
By If your name is Karen, Becky, or Chad, you may have noticed a growing trend of people using your name as an insult. Increasingly, “Karen” in particular has emerged as the frontrunner for the average “basic white person name” — a pejorative catchall label for a wide range of behaviors thought to have connections to white privilege. And the recently trending Twitter hashtag #AndThenKarenSnapped has further shifted the “Karen” meme from its nebulous origins toward becoming a mainstream trope.
By If your name is Karen, Becky, or Chad, you may have noticed a growing trend of people using your name as an insult. Increasingly, “Karen” in particular has emerged as the frontrunner for the average “basic white person name” — a pejorative catchall label for a wide range of behaviors thought to have connections to white privilege. And the recently trending Twitter hashtag #AndThenKarenSnapped has further shifted the “Karen” meme from its nebulous origins toward becoming a mainstream trope.
Where a similar insult like “OK Boomer” stereotypes a specific generation, calling someone a “Karen” draws on associations people have built around extremely common names. But the stereotype the name conjures — at least in the US — is limited mainly to white women in their mid-30s or 40s. The archetypal “Karen” is blonde, has multiple young kids, and is usually an anti-vaxxer. Karen has a "can I speak to the manager" haircut" and a controlling, superior attitude to go along with it"...
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Brianna Povenzano, June 29, 2020"In true 2020 form, there is a harrowing answer to Bonnie and Clyde and it’s “Ken and Karen,” a white St. Louis, Missouri, couple who pointed loaded guns at a group of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past their lavish property on Sunday. -snip-
Here's my comment about the meaning of Saturday Night Live's "Black Jeopardy" Raisin In The Potato Salad sketch that includes the name "Karen":
A portion of the April 7, 2018 Saturday Night Live's "Black Jeopardy" sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzMzFGgmQOc starring Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa [Black Panther] included a reference to a White woman named "Karen". However, this use of the name "Karen" for a White woman doesn't have the negative self-entitled or racist connotations that have been given to other uses of the name "Karen".
A portion of the April 7, 2018 Saturday Night Live's "Black Jeopardy" sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzMzFGgmQOc starring Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa [Black Panther] included a reference to a White woman named "Karen". However, this use of the name "Karen" for a White woman doesn't have the negative self-entitled or racist connotations that have been given to other uses of the name "Karen".
In the sketch, Kenan Thompson, in character as the host, reads a card from the category “White People” that says, “Your friend Karen brings her potato salad to your cookout.” T’Challa responds, “I sense that this white woman does not
season her food.” He continues, “Something tells me that I should say, ‘Aw,
hell no naw, Karen! Keep your bland-ass potato salad to yourself!’ " https://variety.com/video/chadwick-boseman-snl-potato-salad-joke/
The core difference between this depiction of the White woman named "Karen" and other depictions of White women named "Karen", particularly in 2020, Karen" is that the female name "Karen" in that Black Jeopardy sketch is described as a "Black man's White friend". Presumably, she is a that Black man's non-romantic female friend, such as a co-worker. In contrast, in most of the later "Karen" memes that include Black men and/or other People of Color, the White woman named "Karen" is adversarial toward those people who she doesn't even know.
Black Jeopardy's "raisin in the potato salad" sketch resulted in a new internet meme. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/raisin-potato-salad explains this meme as "Raisin Potato Salad is an internet slang term to describe unnecessary actions taken by white people, usually adding their spin on examples of black popular culture."
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I disagree with that interpretation of that meme. Instead, I believe the "raisins in potato salad" meme is all about Black Americans' belief that -in general- we are better cooks than White people and (even more specifically) that the food that White people cook or prepare is often bland, and often contains ingredients and/or seasonings that Black Americans consider unnecessary, strange, and off-putting.
That the White woman in that 2018 Black Jeopardy sketch is named "Karen" may have been a coincidence as "Karen" was/is often considered a "White" female name, That said, I grew up in the 1950s with a Black girl named "Karen", and since then I've known one Black women named "Karen", including one who spelled that name "Caren". I'm sure that there are still a lot of Females of Color who share the name "Karen" with White females. And I'm also sure that there are many White females named "Karen" who aren't self-entitled and/or racist- and some of those women probably know how to prepare a delicious bowl of potato salad- without raisins.
That the White woman in that 2018 Black Jeopardy sketch is named "Karen" may have been a coincidence as "Karen" was/is often considered a "White" female name, That said, I grew up in the 1950s with a Black girl named "Karen", and since then I've known one Black women named "Karen", including one who spelled that name "Caren". I'm sure that there are still a lot of Females of Color who share the name "Karen" with White females. And I'm also sure that there are many White females named "Karen" who aren't self-entitled and/or racist- and some of those women probably know how to prepare a delicious bowl of potato salad- without raisins.
In pictures and videos posted to social media, the couple — whose real names are Mark and Patricia McCloskey — can be seen barefoot on their front lawn, aiming an AR-15 rifle and a handgun at protesters as they pass by their expansive home. It should be noted, apropros of perhaps nothing, that Ken is wearing a pink polo shirt and khaki pants while pointing said gun.
Amid ongoing nationwide protests to demand that police be held accountable for the violence they disproportionately exert against people of color, demonstrators in St. Louis had been moving peacefully through the city’s wealthy Forest Park neighborhood on Sunday evening to demand the resignation of Mayor Lyda Krewson. Protestors specifically called out Krewson for her decision to release the names and addresses of residents who had participated in anti-police brutality actions. But when protesters breached the gates of the McCloskey’s gated community, the couple seemingly decided to go full vigilante to defend their property, known locally as the Neimann Mansion.
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Social media users were quick to bestow the “Karen” and “Ken” monikers usually reserved for entitled white people upon the couple, lumping them in with the similarly armed white protesters who have descended upon statehouses and capitals in recent weeks to protest the injustice of being forced to wear masks in public. And, in the hours since the images of them circulated, mock-ups of Karen and Ken Chadbro as a movie poster (with special guest “Freedom Musket”) have started to quickly go viral.
To make matters worse (for himself), Trump re-tweeted a video of the McCloskeys holding weapons at protestors, just one day after the president tweeted another video in support of "white power" Advocates of the Black Lives Matter movement have called Trump’s actions to be racist and calculated, with the possibility that this could incite a race war."...
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SHOWCASE VIDEO: ken and karen St louis MCloskey St Louis Couple Pull Guns On Protesters
T-rend, June 29, 2020Yesterday, a march in St. Louis called upon the mayor to resign. As the march passed by a recently restored palazzo, they were greeted by the homeowners who responded entirely rationally by waving an AR-15 at the crowd. And, obviously, they are both lawyers. Mark and Patricia McCloskey of the McCloskey Law Center came out of the house brandishing firearms and cut figures that were a lot less “Rambo” and a lot more “Jimmy Buffett survivalist chic.” [...] In their defense, the Daily Mail reports that protesters had broken through the entrance to the gated community and they handled the matter themselves and apparently didn’t bring in the police and escalate the altercation. And with the police brutality we’ve seen against peaceful protesters over the past few weeks, telling the protesters to “keep moving” rather than sitting back and waiting for the Chicago Democratic Convention to break out on their front lawn is a start.
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SHOWCASE VIDEO: ken and karen St louis MCloskey St Louis Couple Pull Guns On Protesters
T-rend, June 29, 2020Yesterday, a march in St. Louis called upon the mayor to resign. As the march passed by a recently restored palazzo, they were greeted by the homeowners who responded entirely rationally by waving an AR-15 at the crowd. And, obviously, they are both lawyers. Mark and Patricia McCloskey of the McCloskey Law Center came out of the house brandishing firearms and cut figures that were a lot less “Rambo” and a lot more “Jimmy Buffett survivalist chic.” [...] In their defense, the Daily Mail reports that protesters had broken through the entrance to the gated community and they handled the matter themselves and apparently didn’t bring in the police and escalate the altercation. And with the police brutality we’ve seen against peaceful protesters over the past few weeks, telling the protesters to “keep moving” rather than sitting back and waiting for the Chicago Democratic Convention to break out on their front lawn is a start.
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