Is ’Martha-Ann’ the New ’Karen’?

Move over, Karen. Martha-Ann could take the throne.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s wife is riling up the internet after undercover recordings exposed her rants about “feminazis” and dreams of battling her neighbor’s Pride flag with her own Christian emblem—not to mention her boasting of her German heritage and warning: “You come after me, I’m going to give it back to you.”

To some observers, Martha-Ann Alito is the ultimate “Karen,” a slang term for an entitled, sometimes racist middle-aged white woman. The moniker percolated for years before solidifying as something more sinister in 2020, thanks to a string of incidents involving white women calling the police on Black people, including a bird-watcher in Central Park.

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