We’re really starting to feel bad for people named Karen.
A woman described as a “Christian Karen” has gone viral this week after harassing two teenagers in a fast-food restaurant. The reason: she thought they were two lesbians on a date.
TikTok user @Kaleesh (real name Kaiden) uploaded a video of the incident, taken March 10. In it, an unidentified woman comes and sits down with Kaiden and his female cousin Jordan, assuming the two are lesbians on a date.
“Do you guys go to church anywhere?” the woman asks. Kaiden just stares at her, stunned, eating his waffle fries. “Do you know how to get to heaven?” the woman presses.
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“I don’t, like, I don’t know you at all,” Kaiden’s cousin Jordan replies, incredulous.
“You guys aren’t girlfriends, are you?” the woman continues. Jordan explains the two are cousins, and that their relationship is really none of the woman’s business.
“I just want to let you guys know because they don’t teach you young kids about God anymore, and it’s just not the right way to live!” the woman explains. She also adds that God told her to come over and talk to the cousins.
Oh, is that it?
The woman then bids farewell saying, “God bless.” At that point, Jordan turns to Kaiden and says what all of us are already thinking.
“What the actual f*ck!?”
Beginning last year the term “Karen” has come to describe any woman–often blond, white and wealthy–who behaves in an intrusive or entitled manner. The term became especially popular to describe anti-mask-wearing women during COVID-19, and racist women during the Black Lives Matter protests.
Maybe we need a new term for meddlesome, homophobic women that feel entitled to harass others with their religious beliefs. Suggestions? Share in the comments.
Chrisk
“God told me to come over and talk to you guys.” The crazy is strong with that loony toons.
Terrycloth
She hears voices. And its god..does she hear footprints and see other invisible things too..her church has her brainwashed or that book of fairy tales has hear believing…its science fiction.crazy lady
timbck2
Ew.
Mister P
No one is going to heaven because there isn’t one.
Mister T
Agreed…Purrrr
WanderSon66
Get a grip folks! Unwelcomed or not, the lady was polite and conversational. She didn’t ‘accost’ or ‘harrass’ those people. Live and let live. Religious people just believe and do weird things. Y’all even have an article on the same webpage where a couple of guys talk about The Goddess, the power of Pisces, an owl mezuzah and communicating with wild animals. The Zodiac proselytizers are equally bizarre, but equally as harmless as that encounter with the Christian proselytizer.
galileo
“Harmless”
rand503
I have no problem with random strangers stopping by to say hello. I DO have a problem with random strangers making assumptions about me — whether it’s my sexuality, or my religious beliefs, or whether I’m “living correctly.” This intrusion is about trying to change people, and that’s really not okay.
If you think it is, then perhaps I should go up to people who look religious and try to explain why atheism is so much better. We’ll see how much they like that.
Robothedestroyer
Adults should not plop down next to people they don’t know and be casually bigoted, polite or not. She said something to the effect of “that’s not the way to live” or some shyt… That’s not polite thats ignorant. Also how old where these kids? If they were under 18 and a gay person did the same thing, you know the same evengelicals praising this would had played the pedo card, yesterday.
You know whatever yeah she’s a damn peach and nothing she did was intrusive or creepy at all.
Leo
If a gay person went up to a strange man and asked if they have had sex with a guy lately and would he like to know how to you would be up in arms over it. You get a grip. This is harassment. Just because the subject is religion or god does not make it any less harassment.
Seth
Proselytizing is a form of soft violence, beyond the fact that it’s just shitty manners.
Religion and conservatism are much like bleach and ammonia.
For them to hurt or kill you, separately, you’d have to make a choice to pour them in a glass and drink them.
Mixed together, however, they form toxic chloramides that indiscriminately harm/kill anyone/thing that breathes.
So, I view religious conservatives the same as I would any common crackhead. They’ll never care about the harm and damage that springs from their faith because it makes them feel good inside. How is that any different from a drug addict?
Joshooeerr
There’s nothing at all “polite” about descending on someone in public, making assumptions about them, and peddling bigotry and superstition, with the intention of brainwashing them into your sick cult.
dwick
you’re pretty special aren’t you?
Openminded
Why did this Karen find it necessary to make a statement about “lesbians being wrong” AFTER the girls informed her that they were cousins? Even if you think it’s o.k. for a stranger to walk up and attempt to force their religious beliefs on you, it’s terribly wrong to mention one’s beliefs on sexual orientation when it doesn’t apply to those you are addressing.
Mr. Stadnick
She was a smug and arrogant the exact opposite of polite. If a non-Christian did that the god Nazis would be freaking out. She was not even remotely polite. She was a total twat.
Mehki
But she didn’t live and let live, did she? She approached them to harangue them about being gay.
Do you know how offensive it is to have someone accost you over their beliefs?
And what if these kids were gay???
It’s offensive as hell. I have JW’s who have been stalking me from one house to another. Hunting down my husband, writing us letters inviting us to their services or whatever they are called, going on 20 freaking years.
I am polite to them because i know they are sincere and my mother, unfortunately, raised me to care more about other people’s feeling than my own.
I finally got them to stop coming by every weekend by telling them the reason my husband isn’t home is because he goes to the nursing home for his mother, We just got a letter yesterday from them.
I’m an atheist. I don’t care that you believe your god talks to you. Leave me alone!
And leave children alone. Strange adults shouldn’t be accosting two young people, possibly minors, eating and minding their own business.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
Because she didn’t physically assault them, you think it’s okay to do what she did? No it’s not.
Heywood Jablowme
I agree that the resident Queerty shaman, Brandon Alter, is a couple of tacos short of a taco plate. But he’s not proselytizing – certainly not with strangers in fast food restaurants. No need to do that, in his line of work, since there are always nutjobs who are attracted to astrology and all that wacky stuff.
Christian proselytizing is different, especially in the last few decades as it became associated with a lot of hateful and idiotic political beliefs.
niles
really, the pathetic and sick Trumpees that tend to haunt this site should really be labeled as such. Please don’t encourage them and may they will slither away.
Den
They are not actually similar at all.
Not in the slightest.
Although the silly Tarot/Horoscope/Whatever guy is about as non-intellectual as one can possibly be, I doubt he would accost total strangers and claim his gods, spirits or whatever told him to witness to them. Christians are extraordinarily obnoxious and arrogant that way, thinking that any beliefs other than their own are not “real”.
New Agers and pagans despite their equally outrageous beliefs are not likely to think they have the right or duty to shove their beliefs down the throats of others.
Ryan99
Polite people do not sit down at your table uninvited and lecture about the magical man in the sky.
Cam
@WanderSon66
Polite? Telling people they’re going to hell isn’t polite.
This is the same B.S. racists and bigots always use. They’ll say LGBTQ people shouldn’t be allowed to have any rights, then if people get mad at them they’ll play the victim and say “Why is anybody getting mad, I said it with a smile and was polite, but look how angry and rude THEY are.”
domen8r
The “grip” may be that anyone talking that way to strangers, unsolicited, about gender preference or identity—perhaps promoting inclusivity, diversity, or acceptance—would be categorized by many religious conservatives as “recruiting” or “pushing their unwanted agenda”. So “get” THAT
exgoalie
Thx, you stated that so much better than i could have. Thx again.
Leo
If a gay person went up to a strange man and asked if they have had sex with a guy lately and would he like to know how to you would be up in arms over it. You get a grip. This is harassment. Just because the subject is religion or god does not make it any less harassment.
Heywood Jablowme
@Leo: “If a gay person went up to a strange man and asked if they have had sex with a guy lately and would he like to know how to you would be up in arms over it.”
I can think of at least one Queerty editor and several regular Queerty commenters who have probably done that!
Cam
@Heywood Jablowme
The newer name for the right wing troll account comes on to defend the bigot and attack LGBTQ people.
Your troll game is sad.
Dick Gozinia
Uninvited = Unwelcome.
Leo
exactly.
SaintRock
Looney evangelist does the opposite of “Godliness”. she is a theocratic zealot. Gives Christians a bad name. I have fought with Evangelicals in Public Christian vs Christian… they don’t have God defense over me.
rock9221
Wait, you mean there are straight people using TicTok? Wow. Who knew?
Seriously, I am long past caring what anyone assumes about me. Maybe we can just let foolish people who make wrong assumptions carry on their way without being deeply wounded. Life is too short.
Doug
I thought the kids did a great job of basically telling her to mind her own business. What an annoying woman.
tones
Set phasers on stun.
Dunnedin
I think I would have responded with “And God told me to tell you to mind your f**king business and get the hell outta of here.” But then I’m not as polite as those teens.
HenryHawke
I agree but as we’ve seen so many times before, if you reply in kind, you’re anti-Christian. It’s their way or the highway. Like you I’d definitely use language I can’t say here.
Mehki
So Karen accosted two underaged victims to inform them that she’s delusional and hears voices?
Huh?
David Myers
You know how you always think of the right response afterwards? I’d like to think if I had been in that situation I could have come up with this answer to her comment that “God told me to come over here and talk to you” . . . . and ideally that would have been: “Wow . . . what a coincidence . . . God just told me to tell you to mind your own fnk business and get the hell out of our faces!” LOL.
CurtisIsTheOne
But MY GOD has a bigger dick. Or Vagina. Or BOTH. Or Neither /|\
Hillers
It’s so sad that people like this have come to represent Christianity. The documentary “For the Bible Tells Me So” clearly points to how the two passages in the Bible that allegedly condemn same-sex relations have been greatly misinterpreted. They want to couch their bigotry in Christ, who spent his time on Earth with sinners, the poor, and the disenfranchised, and became known as the Prince of Peace.
Man About Town
No, no, please do NOT rename the Karens; it’s the perfect name for them because that’s my sister’s name and she is the original psychobitch. If I were still in touch with her I’d contact her to ask if she’s getting any royalties!
djguapo
It would’ve taken all my willpower not to body-slam that Karen out of there to get her to mind her own business.
scotty
if you could reason with religious people
there would be no religious people.
Chrisk
Always a great quote. I stopped trying many years ago. You can’t reason with crazy.
Invader7
I would have slapped Bat Shit Crazy Karen with one of my waffle fries and then told the ratchet CRUNT to get to step off !!! No one invited you nor wants your brand of mentally unstable DELUSIONAL crap !!! Of course, I would have wasted a delicious waffle fry on that bovine heifer !!!
tjack47
No one would do that to me without consequences. I’m not going to tolerate it. Making assumptions. Testifying, which is the real problem. Religion that brain washes you into thinking you must spread the word and convert. Conversion is about one thing only, and it isn’t sexuality nor gender. It’s all about the collection plate.
Leash
in her delusional mind she was convinced she’s doing something good there and thats whats really scary.