snowflakes

I imagine that, just like everything to do with generations, there are as many or as few who find parts of life difficult as there ever were.

Many more are faced with leaving home and starting out on their own at university than ever were in the past. When many of us were young the majority, particularly women, went from parental home to married home with nothing in between.

Even moving some distance from home for work was much more unusual and vast swaths of the population didn't expect to do that.

Different times and different ways of coping with different problems but please, one generation is not better or worse than another, they just learn to fit the circumstances they grow up in - and who brought them up?

I don't know GracesgranMK2, it sounds rather American to me
center ?

you missed out the the fact that they are perceived to behave like this by older right wing women and are absolutely right to be offended by the way they are treated and patronised by said women.
I don't understand that either.
but then I've never really come across the term as GN and FB are probably the only sites I frequent.

They've been shielded from views and perspective that persuade right of center ...

What does that actually mean?

I do melt in the heat Elegran - but only physically. When arguments become heated I can become mentally stronger! Until things become ridiculous, that is.

Usually I am happily laid back, like a snowflake wafting slowly down to earth

But are you an inflated snowflake, Jalima, or just an ordinary flat one that melts in the heat? And if a snowflake is inflated with hot air, does it melt instantly?

^ but may include a person who has an inflated sense of their own uniqueness,^
I see the connection

I'm unique, there is no-one else like me, am I a snowflake?

"Snowflake as a slang term involves the derogatory usage of the word snowflake to make reference to people. Its meaning has varied, but may include a person who has an inflated sense of their own uniqueness, has an unwarranted sense of entitlement, or is easily offended and unable to deal with opposing opinions."

Must admit the definitions have made me smile because I recognise these people.

I suspect we all do. No on here invented the definition so I am surprised one or two people are getting a bit hot under the collar.

People like this tend to be young and they abound. Go to any University town!

Exactly Fennel

I think I understand it better now ( not sure though).
As one of the older Grans on here, who lived through and remember WW2, I sometimes read moans and groans about some trifling thing - not just on this forum - and think how would they cope if they had real problems?
But I don't say owt, we should be grateful those wartme experiences haven't been repeated. Snowflakes as a consequence.
I don't mean really tragic family situations btw - to me those are always in the same category as wartime experiences.

Is calling people snowflakes - well, is it Banter?
well, I would have thought so - the reply could be 'Yes, I am because I'm beautiful and unique'.

It's an odd term, though, or does no-one else agree? As I pointed out, a snowflake is unique (not just thinks it is!), put together with other snowflakes can form a formidable 'weapon' and, together with millions or billions of others, could become a dangerous avalanche.

I'd never really heard of it and wouldn't refer to anyone I know of the younger generation as a 'snowflake' although I have heard the 40 somethings use the terms 'flaky' (is that the same?) or 'ditsy' about others.

I understood the term 'snowflake' to refer to children previously known as 'mummy's little darlings' or 'little individuals'. Those who are never, ever responsible for their own misdemeanours.

Politics are irrelevant? I'll get in trouble with the grammarians.........

Oh I see. Agree with you that politics is irrelevant unless anyone wants to drag it in.

I think the background is helpful and in teaching the word now I would use the Wiki entry:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_(slang)

Eglantine I was going by the last sentence, but the word could have been coined, and defined, by any group wishing to insult another group by labelling them wimps.

I don't think it is a term used against any other poster a great deal on here.

I don't remember seeing anyone on GN use the term "snowflake" to anyone, of any political persuasion. Did I miss it?

No, Maryeliza I don’t see any use of the word in any regular way on GN at all.

That was to lemon

Iam we are talking about what we see is the use and meaning of the word in the press, social media etc and not using it ourselves about anyone.

Oh it’s used and well you know and very nastily - especially when we are discussing young people

I ve only heard it used by leavers describing remainders
But yes an insult for sure

lemon - you missed out the the fact that they are perceived to behave like this by older right wing women and are absolutely right to be offended by the way they are treated and patronised by said women. When I think of all the examples on here of ‘ooohhh how could you say that’ ‘ I daren’t post on xxxxxx threads’ I do wonder who the real snowflakes are - or would if it were a word that I think should be used.

Yes Jalima exactly like that.

On here Maryeliza ?
Why do you think it is only used by ‘right wing’ people?
Where are these younger women on GN?
I haven’t seen it used much on GN at all, by left or right wing posters or any shade in between.

I prefer the definition given by Ilovecheese. I don't know any drippy young people, ours all seem to work very hard. This is all feeling a bit Groundhog Day and reminding me of the colonel types on the IofW when the festival took place, all the horror about the great unwashed, dreadful young people who didn't know the meaning of respect and hard work. Most of those young people with be our age now and will have contributed to society, worked hard and brought their own children up as well as they could. They'll now be caring for grandchildren. I pushed on of mine around today, hoping he'd fall asleep. He didn't. I met three other grandparents doing exactly the same thing.

Is calling people snowflakes - well, is it Banter?