Welcome! This Is My First Post, So This One Is All. About. Me.
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Hello, beautiful souls.
If you’re here, it means you’re ready to unlearn.
My name is Karen (she/her/they on weekends). I’m 34, in recovery, and I created this blog as a public service—to educate, to heal, and to gently correct those who are still operating inside outdated frameworks like logic, evidence, and personal responsibility.
Due to the very real danger posed by MAGA types interacting with me, I must remain anonymous.
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My Journey
I attended Berkeley, where I majored in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with a minor in Narrative Harm Reduction. Some people say DEI isn’t a “real” major, which honestly tells you everything you need to know about those people.
At Berkeley, I learned the most important truth of all:
Lived experience is more accurate than reality.
After graduation, I accepted a position with a major corporation (I won’t name them because accountability culture is toxic, but yes—you use their products). My role was to help design internal programs to de-center, de-structure, de-platform, and de-normalize systems of oppressive white supremacist behavior.
This included:
• Mandatory unconscious bias retraining
• Voluntary-but-required reeducation modules
• Listening circles for offenders (chairs removed to discourage dominance)
• PowerPoint decks explaining why silence is violence, speech is violence, and asking questions is also violence
It was exhausting work—but necessary.
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About My Health (Please Be Respectful)
I want to address this upfront, because transparency is healing.
Yes, I have anxiety.
Yes, I have depression.
Yes, I have complex emotional sensitivities.
And no—these are not personal issues.
According to multiple studies (which I don’t have bookmarked right now), over 41% of white women suffer from mental health challenges, caused directly by centuries of white male hegemony, emotional suppression, and being forced to smile politely while men explained things.
So if I seem intense sometimes, understand that this is not illness—it’s awareness.
Frankly, if you aren’t struggling emotionally in this system, that’s a red flag.
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Why This Blog Exists
I started Karen Knows Best™ because I was tired of being gaslit by:
• Science
• Statistics
• “Both sides”
• People who say, “I just want to understand”
This blog is a safe space for truth, as long as your truth aligns with mine.
Here, we will:
• Ask brave questions
• Reject harmful facts
• Center feelings
• Call out microaggressions, macroaggressions, and vibe-based aggressions
• Hold space while taking it
If you’re uncomfortable, that means it’s working.
Anyway, gotta run! Another protest; another paycheck!
The Deplorables are busy wrecking the country now that God/Satan has kept us from the wise leadership of dear Kamala Harris!
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House Rules
Before engaging, please note:
• Disagreement is permitted only if phrased as gratitude
• Skepticism will be blocked
• Sarcasm is a tool of the oppressor
• “Sources?” is a dog whistle
I am not here to debate.
I am here to educate.
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Final Thought
I don’t claim to be perfect.
I claim to be right.
Thank you for being here.
Do better.
Karen Knows Best™ : Why Mowing Your Lawn Is Literally Violence
Okay. I wasn’t going to say anything—but after what I witnessed this week, silence is no longer an option.
I saw a man mowing his lawn.
Let that sink in.
The Incident
I was on my morning walk (processing trauma, listening to a podcast about settler colonial botany), when I heard it.
The sound.
That aggressive, gas-powered roar of domination.
A man—white, obviously—was pushing a lawnmower across his yard like he was proud of it. No warning signs. No consent. No acknowledgment of the unseen communities being erased beneath his blades.
I froze. My nervous system did too.
Lawns Are a System
Let’s be clear: lawns are not “nature.”
Lawns are:
• A colonial construct
• A symbol of control
• A monoculture rooted in European aristocracy
• Literally designed to show who had enough land to waste
Grass is not meant to be obedient. And yet here we are, forcing it into submission every Saturday morning like that’s normal.
Ask yourself:
Why does it need to be short?
Who benefits from “tidy”?
Why does mess make people uncomfortable?
Exactly.
The Violence You Don’t See
When you mow a lawn, you are:
• Destroying pollinator habitats
• Silencing indigenous plant voices
• Reenacting generational trauma on a cellular level
• Triggering empaths within a three-block radius
And don’t even get me started on gas mowers. Fossil fuels plus blades? That’s not yard care—that’s a hate crime with a pull cord.
“But It’s My Property”
I hear this excuse a lot.
“Karen, it’s my yard.”
“Karen, the city made me do it.”
“Karen, you’re overreacting.”
No.
Property is a myth.
Cities are complicit.
And reacting strongly to injustice is called being informed.
Also, did you know some municipalities are now recognizing religious exemptions for natural lawns?
Yes. Because for some of us, letting plants grow freely is not a choice—it’s a belief system.
And honestly, if your religion requires you to cut grass into stripes, maybe sit with that.
The Real Reason People Mow
Control.
People mow because:
• They fear chaos
• They fear neighbors
• They fear HOA newsletters
• They fear being judged
And instead of unpacking that fear, they take it out on dandelions.
Sad.
What I Do Instead
For those asking (and you are asking), my yard is now a reclaimed healing space.
I don’t mow.
I observe.
I listen.
I let the plants decide their own journey.
Yes, it looks “overgrown.”
Yes, I’ve received notices.
Yes, the city has threatened fines.
But growth has always made oppressors uncomfortable.
To the Lawn Defenders
If this post upsets you, maybe ask yourself why.
Why are you so attached to cutting things down?
Why does wildness scare you?
Why does my unmowed yard feel like a personal attack?
You don’t have to answer me.
But you do need to reflect.
Final Thought
Grass doesn’t need to be controlled.
It needs to be heard.
Do better.