According to a British survey, millennial snowflakes don't like being called snowflakes. They feel it causes discomfort, fear and may even cause mental illness.
OK, my young snowflakes, what DOESN'T make you feel afraid or uncomfortable? Safe spaces? Weed? Tattoos? Avoiding everything that doesn't make you feel good? That is not real life. And part of real life IS being fearful and uncomfortable. It's supposed to make you think, to grow, to be stronger. It's natural evolution. "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger".
If being called a snowflake causes you distress then we can call you something else. How about wimp? Or crybaby. Or pussy. Or cream puff. Or whiner. Or softie. Or schlemiel. Or weakling. Does that make you feel better? If being called a snowflake makes you cry then stop being a snowflake.
I call millennial snowflake behavior the Snowflake Syndrome. It's the childish, agitated overreaction of younger people to everything that might even remotely make them uncomfortable. "No, I don't like that". Like they're the ones in charge. We adults are allowing children to be in charge of, to have a say in, their own upbringing. WTF? It's sooooo wrong. I do not blame the snowflakes. They were taught, and allowed, to be the way they are. They know of no other way to be. I blame the Snowflake Syndrome on the wholehearted support and misdirected bad guidance from left-wing liberalism, extensive extreme liberal schooling, and extreme liberal/overly permissive parenting. And the cell phone.
Real snowflakes
I grew up in Upstate New York. We had winter. Big, bad winter. REALITY. 5 months of winter reality every year. From December through April. If we ignored or denied the 3-5 feet of snow on the ground, inches of ice on the road, and below zero temperatures, we would be dead. Not fearful, not upset, dead. Frozen to death or smashed or drowned in a vehicle on the ice. If we fantasized that ice cold winter was warm and sunny summer, and acted like it, we would soon be dead. Killed by real life. Do not live in fantasy. Fantasy is not real. Fun, but not real. Yes, you can visit fantasy land but you can't live there (unless you are insane). No matter how hard you try to change or deny reality, reality will intrude. Do not deny reality, rather, embrace reality (though sometimes it sucks) and learn how to deal with it. It can make you safer, and stronger, and self-reliant, and give real meaning to your life. And, once you are familiar with reality, you can work to change the things you don't like about it ... WITHIN REASON. Yes, you can do it. Or, as a snowflake, you could continue to melt down at the very thought of an imperfect world.
