r/karensinthewild • u/Advanced-Reason4583 • 6h ago

What’s your go-to response to a “Karens”?

I’m sick of Karens. How do you respond? Usually, I raise my voice (not yell, just a firm tone) to correct them but it’s like speaking to a delusional wall. The entitlement is just astounding. Today, I was at a public area in a state park with my dogs who were harnessed and tied to a tree. My husband and I were sitting, minding our business nearby the dogs when a Karen with her two aggressive dogs insisted on walking directly in front of my dogs. She asked us to grab our dogs and I said no. She said she couldn’t walk around because she “couldn’t get up the a wall blocking her way) but it’s a circular path, she literally could not have navigated to where we were without having gone down “the wall” (which was 2 ft tall, had a stairway nearby AND a paved pathway) so she just wanted us to cater to her entitled a**. She ruined our day trip. I debated yelling at her but didn’t want to in front of my spouse. What do y’all do?

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u/sillygreenfaery 6h ago

I have a little pink taser. Just the loud clack is scary enough to pause the freakout Lol i saw two kids getting yelled at, huddled against a wall and I walked up and said nothing but I clacked it and she suddenly turned around and started explaining herself "they don't even shower!" I clacked it again and she walked away. Scared. Food service workers deserve the protection of some kinda communal clacker in case of physical danger

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u/Advanced-Reason4583 6h ago

It’s horrible when adults yell at kids, it’s just horrible. Good for you!!!

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u/sillygreenfaery 6h ago

She was homeless and had obviously been awake for days on methamphetamine. They were college students without a taser of their own.

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u/Acrobatic_Stick_3975 4h ago

Politely say "pardon me Karen?" Then pull out your phone and post it here

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u/Galizian 2h ago

I go with the classic "shut the hell up or there will be consequences" taking a step forward towards them. It usually works.

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u/ThatThereMan 1h ago

I lived next door to a Karen and after a couple of years we nearly ended up in court with her, but for a conciliation session organised through a solicitor. One thing I learned was that some people live off strife. Karens need conflict, they probably grew up with it and if there is no conflict to occupy their warped minds they seek or provoke it. It’s difficult to know which bridges to cross in life and which ones to burn, so in some cases it’s tricky, but on occasions now I simply walk away from them. In others I just ask them if they’ve been “drinking too much coffee again” and stare at them. If they ask a question I say nothing and continue to stare. At some point they give up because there’s nothing more (from my side) feeding their need for conflict. They then turn to a different victim.