كارين هي مصطلح ازدرائي يقال لمرأة ذات بشرة بيضاء تكون شخصيتها متسلطة وترى نفسها فوق الجميع.[1] وقد تم انتقاد المصطلح باعتباره متحيزًا للعمر، جنسياً، عنصرياً وطبقياً.[2]
"Karen" is associated with the kind of person who demands to "speak to the manager" in order to belittle service industry workers, is anti-vaccination, and carries out racist micro-aggressions, such as asking to touch black people's hair. But a predominant feature of the "Karen" stereotype is that they weaponise their relative privilege against people of colour - for example, when making police complaints against black people for minor or even - in numerous cases - fictitious infringements.