Questions

If Amy Cooper were a single mother, would she now be under investigation by DCF, despite foster care being a perennial deathtrap for children in every state in the country?

If Ms. Cooper were a mother, what would her children being going through now and for the rest of their lives, whether or not they were taken away from her?

If Ms. Cooper has a boyfriend, her relationship is under pressure that could instantly destroy a good marriage of years.  In addition to her financial losses, the destruction of her reputation, online attacks and her being investigated by a human rights commission, is he going to be investigated too, for no reason other than that the media wants to know everything there is to know about her especially if it's negative?

If Amy Cooper had had a man with her when she encountered Christian Cooper in the park, would Christian Cooper have been more conciliatory than confrontational?

If Amy Cooper had been a man, would Christian Cooper have been more conciliatory than confrontational?

If Amy Cooper had been a man, shown to be as upset as she was in Christian Cooper's video, would Christian Cooper's side of the story that he was entirely polite before he started recording have been accepted as if it couldn't be anything other than the truth?

There seem to be some assumptions here.  One is that women don't have their own responsibilities and stessors from their daily lives.  Another is that a woman who has the job that Ms. Cooper had routinely loses her temper for no reason, has no social skills, and has never in her life or during the course of her career and residence in New York City had a reasonable conversation with a black person unless she was secretly plotting to have the person shot to death.  The idea that women don't already have all sorts of stressful things on their minds when they're out and about and walking their dogs is similar to the idea that women's contributions at work are worthless, particularly those contributions which are magically transformed through the alchemy of intellectual property theft into brilliance as soon as other people, including other women, take credit for them.  Life is stressful for everyone, everywhere.

Are women now supposed to stop being aware that people are raped, beaten and murdered in parks?  If they stop being aware, are people going to stop saying "Didn't she know what could happen" when women are raped, beaten and murdered in parks?  Do men now have no responsibility to reassure women who don't know them that they have nothing to be afraid of?  Is it now women's responsibility never to express fear through any means?  Is female fear now a crime?

Ms. Cooper was about to leash her dog when Mr. Cooper started recording.  She looked up and saw that he was recording.  She asked him please to stop and he didn't.  She said again that she wanted him to stop and he didn't.  She said "I'm not going to take pictures, I'm going to call the police," and as a result he has a video to put online and she doesn't.  When she threatened to call the police, he didn't stop recording her.  She called the police and then leashed her dog, and then he stopped.  Then they both left, unharmed.  That's a stand down.  Why didn't he leave it at that?

He had absolutely nothing to fear from that little dog.  He just wanted to make her do what he told her to do, and he wanted to record her doing what he had told her to do.

Is hunting "Karens" now a national pastime?

Is there ever a time when some version of hunting women isn't a national pastime?

What man, of any race, would have been expected to put up with Mr. Cooper's behavior?  The video starts with her being about to leash the dog.  Why didn't he turn the camera off then?  When she looked up and saw that he was recording her, and she asked him please to stop, why didn't he?  Isn't that the point at which people would excuse a man for saying "Turn that camera off or I'm going to break it?"  She never says that.

The entire video is of her doing what he tells her to do.  When she walks toward him, she doesn't let go of the dog because he had told her not to let it run around.  When he asks her please not to come near him, she backs away, but by then his intention to humiliate her is clear, and even so she still doesn't do what a man would have been excused for doing, which would have been to break his phone, hit him, or start a recording war with her own phone.  She involves the appropriate third party, the police, and unfortunately by then she is so upset that she finally gives Mr. Cooper his recording of a "Karen" warble.

Maybe Mr. Cooper would never stoop to hitting a woman, but he certainly knew before this incident that every recording of any kind has the potential to go viral and that there are plenty of people who are more than happy to threaten physical violence against socially designated targets.  Ms. Cooper also knew that, which is why she asked him and then told him to stop recording her.

If a woman did to a man what Mr. Cooper did to Ms. Cooper, she would be accused of goading and entrapment.

He has permanently changed her life.  She can't get back what she had, from her job to her anonymity.  He can't get his anonymity back, either, but he's not the one being profiled by the media.