that really gets me thinking though like 'karens' are the hallmark of bad customer service experiences and entire accounts are dedicated to posting karen freakouts and no i dont sympathize with entitled women acting ridiculous, but it does annoy me that women are posited as the people always freaking out at customer service workers when in my experience men do it just as much but the only difference is it is fucking scary when they do it and it doesn't make for good content. someone screaming and acting like a child is awful to deal with as a worker but you aren't in any real danger. but men are the ones who will literally harrass, stalk, and threaten you just because they dont like your policy or whatever
and it's the same thing with implying that 'boy moms' or whatever have incestuous relationships with their children because they are like overly attached to them, or maybe prioritize their sons over their daughters because of internalized misogynistic ideals. again, we can criticize this- i'm not siding with these women either. i just think it's interesting how men are actually the ones who most often commit incest against children in their families, and yet so one is really making these funny jokes about 'girl dads'. why? oh, because it's not really all that absurd and is actually a terribly common phenomenon.
women are easy targets for online jokes. it lets people let out their misogyny a little, lets them confirm their biases about crazy emotional bitches, and we know they aren't nearly as likely to really enact abuse, or seriously endanger the lives of customer service workers, so it's easy to posit it as a joke. men on the other hand, actually do threaten, stalk and kill people, especially women (i.e. the majority of people working in customer service), and are much more likely to commit incest abuse. so it's not really so funny, and it's not really so much of a 'joke'.
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