To be irritated by frequent references to 'snowflakes'

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I've noticed people using 'snowflake' as an mild insult a lot recently - here, Facebook, real life. It's usually with reference to something reasonably benign or not especially precious (just seen it on FB by someone saying not being allowed to smack your children leads to generation Snowflake, saw lots of it after Brexit/Trump from people suggesting those opposed to it should put up and shut up, saw it here on Thursday for someone who didn't want her nanny to do something which I think a lot of people would not like their paid childcare to do). I'm assuming it's a reference to Fight Club but I really haven't heard it referenced this way until the last few months which is odd given that fight club was released in 1999. I'm sure my irritation makes me a snowflake myself but does anyone find this annoying?

Even when it's unspoken I detect its chilly presence on those threads where people declare: 'I wouldn't dream of complaining about that.'

I always think: 'Okay, don't. It's a free country.'

I don't hear it much but I took it to mean people who think they are unusually sensitive and special and just cannot cope.
Since around the time of Diana's death the uk has become a more 'show our feelings' place. A lot of emphasis on the individual since thatcher. Just the language used - everyone is important and special rather than what is important for society.
I preferred the old way of just getting on with things and not analysing life in detail, but I accept everyone is different.

I think actually it used to be used about the privileged who thought they were better than everyone and needed special treatment and to be pandered to, but now it is often used by the privileged to put down anyone who complains about perceived injustice/ discrimination - that is the way the Trump and the Alt Right use it isn't it? Also the way some on MN use it too, to put the "little people" in their place - not most people, but there are a few who have a positively 18th century attitude to anything tenancy or employment related ...

I love it. It's a perfect insult to the moms who think that their kids are SO special that they can't possibly tolerate whatever most kids just deal with. Like snowflakes, this mom's kids are unique. No other word comes close.

Yabu. I dislike snowflake and butt hurt as insulting terms

"now it is often used by the privileged to put down anyone who complains about perceived injustice/ discrimination - that is the way the Trump and the Alt Right use it isn't it?"

No. The alt-right and Trump's base supporters tend to be under-educated, underemployed, uninsured poor, angry white men. They are most definitely NOT "privileged".

Who do you think they use the phrase against?

Anyone who they disagree with who is defending Muslim, Black, Hispanic, women's rights...

Can't stand it. It epitomises the sneeriness and patronising tone of 'I tell it like it is' types. It's AIBU to a T.

YANBU. It's a lazy way of dismissing people. If you think someone's asking for preferential treatment when they don't need it then say so, but increasingly it's just used as a catch all term for anyone making (often perfectly reasonable demands) that someone just doesn't like. The type of person that uses it is also fairly frequently someone who has never been on the receiving end of discrimination or abuse and would be totally unable to tolerate it themselves.

If people start saying butthurt on MN I'm off.

And I'm taking the biscuits with me.

Coo I don't know, mistressmerryweather, look at you acting like the special snowflake and getting all butt hurt.

Be off with you and take your butt biscuits with you....

.....did I get that right?

Butt hurt has to be some weird autocorrect

(Psst... By the way yes, that was perfect)

I use snowflake of people who expect a level of consideration that they do not extend to others, as if they're saying, I am more special and precious than you are.

It suits some peoole. Like those who would write and complain because some people with LDs made a noise in the theatre

some people who think they are so special and no one else matters, it's like chav i will use it when the need arises

'Butt hurt' is an American expression that was popular about five years ago and used to try to shut people up in a condescending way when you don't have an intelligent argument to make in response to them.

If people start saying butthurt on MN I'm off.

Yep.

Yeah, it can be a bit annoying.

Widely used by UKIPers /Brexiters as an insult against anybody who dares to disagree with their right-wing agenda. Here for example: twitter.com/nigel_farage/status/820237844425928704?lang=en-gb WARNING - Nigel Farage tweet.
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In most circles it's used to mean someone who demands extra privileges without extra need - "the rules don't apply to me, I'm special don't you know".

For the US Right (including POTUS) it has come to mean "anyone who doesn't want treating the way we want to treat you". Obviously there's an overlap with the general use, but there's an insidious "if you don't agree with us it's because you're spoilt and unreasonable".

A friend of mine made a protest banner proclaiming Generation Snowflake Hates Racism ... and Winter Is Coming. Strangers took photos and tweeted it.

NavyandWhite - Nope. Ive not been called it. But then I don't tend to spend my time socialising with people who have that kind of attitude (i don't like peoplr like that).

When i see it used online frequently i tend to avoid the discussion because instead of discussion it often becomes a clique of people who like to dish it out but cant stand it if anyone calls them out on it. Seemingly, if you call people out on their crap then they just take it as more proof youre a daft little snowflake. Cant reason with them.

@RhodaBorrocks Spoonies and Zebra's??