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May 31, 2020 3 tweets 1 min read Read on X
It's interesting that #Karen has been a concept throughout history:

Harridan
Yenta
Scold

And, off the top of my head, a half dozen others with similar though not exact connotations
Amusingly, "yenta" was originally a given name, so the correspondence to #Karen seems exact
And how could I forget: termagant!

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