How about a law against characterizing people by calling them "Karens"?

It's a term that discriminates on the basis of race and gender, and it's also unfair to women named Karen.

I'm trying to be understanding about the way that I've been treated by a lot of black people in the Boston area for the past few weeks.  It's not everyone, but there has been a major, negative change.  I understand that the protests are important and international.  Not knowing how white men are being treated by black people whom they don't know and whom they encounter in various situations, I can't know if white men are experiencing what I'm experiencing.

I'm experiencing hostility that I have never experienced before.  When I try to make eye contact and smile, the majority of black men refuse to acknowledge that I'm there.  Quite literally, they look somewhere above me, with a glare of hatred that has never been there before.  After weeks of this, it doesn't seem as if there's a point to my continuing to try to be friendly when I'm walking past them on the street; they don't want my solidarity, they want to hate me.

I have worked in customer service for 30 years.  I'm a customer service professional.  I'm not smiling all the time when I'm at work, but I don't respond to customers who are trying to be friendly and considerate by refusing to smile at them and refusing to answer them when they, the customers, say things to me such as "Have a nice day."

Yesterday, when I was walking across a crosswalk, a black woman drove up to the crosswalk, stopped, and glared at me through the windshield.

Glared at me through her windshield, both hands gripping the steering wheel; yes, I'm trying to be funny, yes, that's what really happened, no, I don't think the "Karen" trend should continue.

Would there not be an outcry from black people if the media were trying to normalize a trend of using a black name to characterize black people?  The trend of calling people "Karens" is being perpetuated by the media because it is misogynist.