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Are a symptom of the overwhelming narcissism running rampant in this country.
Parents instill the lie of privilege in their own kids when they do not give their kids any kind of consequences for being jerks or acting out or being abusive. Those kind of parents are unfit and have helped create this Ken and Karen problem we all know about now.
Karen's and Ken's operate under an assumption of entitlement and when that claim of entitlement is not given to these adult bratty children,the narcissist adult 2 year old has a tantrum and abuses whoever happens to be their target. Unfortunately the black and brown people suffer it so often it is ridiculous.
There has to be a real and potent way of containing the fucking narcissism so people who are Karen's or abusive narcissistic entitled pieces of shit can't destroy our well being as a country and society.
The narcissism is the problem as well as those who enable narcissism.
My Friend has a son on the autistic spectrum who was partially raised by her narcissist lazy ass ex,and his mother who made her own son a narcissistic piece of shit helped make my Friends son a narcissistic piece of shit..
He is a full blown Ken.
His mom has been abused by him and because of that he is barred from her house her car etc. He has violent reactions weaponizes his tears all the Ken behaviors.He calls her over and over on her cell hoping she'll go and buy him something. It annoys her and she does not give into it.But she balks at putting him into a psych hospital. I hope that maybe the hospital could maybe help undo the damage done.
I think if she keeps putting it off she would be stuck with a full blown Ken.
I think maybe it's already too late.
Parents that let their kids do whatever they want and basically refuse to parent their kids are somewhat guilty for creating the Karen's and Kens we all see nowadays. They have no scapegoat they can get away with mistreating anymore. They are facing consequences. It takes a village once parents refuse to teach their kids how to behave. Others have to.
Capitalism has made it so both parents work too much,are stressed out and exhausted. Maybe that financial abuse imposed on people is what helped facilitate kids growing up to be Karen's and Kens . It's no excuse but I think it plays a part along with the rise of nuclear families.
Either way the narcissism
problem has to have real and painful consequences for the narcissists. I don't care if they are 2 or 99 years old.
Rich or not.
Let them get what is coming to them.
All of them.
onecaliberal
(32,777 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,955 posts)OP text denotes plural one way for the woman and another way for the man: "the Karen's and Kens", more than once.
onecaliberal
(32,777 posts)2naSalit
(86,323 posts)Beakybird
(3,330 posts)PM me in a few days, and I'll figure out what it means.
live love laugh
(13,079 posts)Sadly.
JHB
(37,154 posts)There is no greater example of narcissistic privilege than the creature who currently holds the office of POTUS.