Growing up in Massachusetts, I never had a major problem with my first name, but I always wanted to spell it differently. Karen struck me as neither interesting nor creative or unique, so I wanted to ...

For years, “Karen” has been shorthand for a very specific kind of public annoyance. It stopped being just a common first name and became a label for people seen as entitled, demanding, and strangely ...

First Karen. Then Ken. Now Brandon. The Internet, and some people, can be unforgiving if you happen to have a name that goes viral. Brandon is the latest name to show up in internet memes — in an ...

PLAIN TWP. ‒ Pity the poor 1,469,388 women named Karen in this country. In the past few years, the name has become synonymous with entitled white privilege and racism, thanks to social media memes. A ...