I am sick of snowflakes

[WhatNameToChooseNow]

Just need to vent. The world is becoming a colder place because of snowflakes and wet blankets.

I hear you, @WhatNameToChooseNow!

I can't get a stiff upper lip, I'm offended by that remark.

I often hear the term ‘snowflake’ thrown around when people say things that are offensive to other people/groups with no empathy.

I don’t think I’m a snowflake but would like to think I’m empathetic and considerate. I sometimes think things are in poor taste without them necessarily being relatable.

The snowflakes around here are driving me insane. Fucking insular twats who can't bear anyone outside their small minded little mildly xenophobic and racist easily triggered minds.

@WhatNameToChooseNow

Snowflakes offend me shall I start a petition? Or meme it up on insta? And talk about nothing else until I bore the pants off everyone?

Maybe start a thread to whinge about it?

No examples of snowflake behaviour yet.

You sound like my mum OP. That's not a good thing by the way.

@Onthelowdown interesting. I've always understood it as the opposite? Not those causing "offence" but those taking it? To be clear this is just a humourous thread. Totally side with groups that have been marginalised or mistreated. I've always considered snowflakes as those who take offence at stupidly minor things where there was no offense meant.

Are you bored tonight OP?

As with most things there is a balance somewhere 😀

I mean if snowflakes ran the world we'd all be wearing the same thing, no expressions of any kind allowed as it offends someone.

Bizarre nick-name though... when I first heard it I thought oohh that sounds like a nice tag. Snowflakes are beautiful and unique and I always associated the with nice things like snow and Christmas. I assumed it referred to people who were a bit stand-offish and cold but melted once you got to know them, and thought it could apply to me. Was quite disappointed once I eventually figured out what the label referred to and have to admit I think it’s use is particularly mean-spirited and divisive.

@RoseTintedAtuin we could call them whingers? ;)

The word "snowflake" is nearly always used by those who would be better off applying it to themselves, i.e. those who are enraged and triggered by the existence of views that don't conform to their own.

Examples?

Anyway I've vented so continue to discuss at your leisure ladies.... (No offence meant if any had been given)

Is this about the fireworks again? You sound like the idiot on Facebook claiming the random occasionally repeated singular firework in the pouring rain is probably a "celebration"

And I will repeat its a piss poor celebration either set them off properly or stop wasting them the whole point of fireworks is to see them setting one firework off then nothing is just winding your neighbours dog (and she has just had surgery so stop being a dick)

And interesting to see your take on its meaning OP. I guess it shows this tag means different things to different people depending on how they’ve heard it used. As from what I have gathered it refers to people with little resilience and the media used it to label an entire generation (the generation younger than millennials, also called generation rent in some papers), ignoring the fact that this generation has shown remarkable resilience in most areas including housing, education costs and now the devastation of their incomes 😔

I mean if snowflakes ran the world we'd all be wearing the same thing, no expressions of any kind allowed as it offends someone.

LOL, excellent satire.

‘ An insult, used to mean that a person is too easily insulted or is too sensitive to the opinions. Mainly used by Alt-Right Trumpet blowers, who ironically, don't realize they are the very definition of the insult they love to throw around. Snowflake is used by people who are incapable of using their intellect and their words to make their point in an intelligent manner.
Look at that Alt-Right snowflakes pitching a fit over people they think do not sufficiently engage in flag worship.’

Are you an Alt-right Trumpet blower op?

I always thought a snowflake was eg. someone couldn't possibly boil an egg as it was too difficult or more likely I'll get Mum/Dad to do it as that's their job or someone who expected the world to revolve around them.
And snowflakes expect everyone to pander & spoon feed them.

A wet blanket is someone who always comes up with an excuse why we shouldn't do something or sucks the joy out of everything & always moaning.

I'm quite cross that the words snowflake & blanket have been hi jacked.
A snowflake is a soft & pretty cold thing.
A blanket is cosy & a wet blanket just needs hanging on the line to dry & perhaps be darked on.

Perhaps these people should be called flimsys & drizzles instead?

'Snowflake' is a really nasty and reductive term to use about another person, OP. You may have meant your thread humorously but you've started this thread without giving any proper idea of how you define a 'snowflake', so how is anyone supposed to either agree or disagree with you?

Yeah I know what you mean, me too.

I think you've misunderstood the term 'snowflake'

@feistyoneyouare

'Snowflake' is a really nasty and reductive term to use about another person, OP. You may have meant your thread humorously but you've started this thread without giving any proper idea of how you define a 'snowflake', so how is anyone supposed to either agree or disagree with you?

That’s the OP told