Safe Space

Yamikuronue

@Magus There are plenty of people Boomzilla's age that throw a tantrum if you tell them 'no', too. So what? Some people don't raise their kids right.

aliceif

@Magus said in Safe Space:

@aliceif You get why, though, right?

There are plenty of people Ben's age in particular who break down and cry if you tell them they're wrong.

Nope. I don't.
The people who were around my age that I was around with didn't seem anything like the "snowflakes" that the internet keeps talking about.

And I was born in the mid-nineties.

Calling me part of a "generation of snowflakes" is just kind of unfair, you know.
Implying that if I ever express discomfort about something or complain about something it's just "snowflakeyness" and invalid. And I'm female, so that makes it even more likely to have what I say automatically dismissed.

aliceif

@aliceif First downvote? Awesome!

Magus

@aliceif said in Safe Space:

Calling me part of a "generation of snowflakes" is just kind of unfair, you know.

People get unfairly categorized constantly, and I hate it. But a generation is something that's quite obviously too huge to mean much. Though people seem to do equally unfair things to the baby boomers, so maybe people really are that dumb.

It'll be really tragic if this generation keeps the name and is remembered by it. Hopefully it won't.

pydsigner

@aliceif It depends on who you were around. I agree that there's a lot of good people out of the 90's, but I I also have concern for many of my peers post-college.It's neither invalid to generalize us as Gen Snowflake nor to to point out that generalizations don't apply to everyone (that's what makes them generalizations rather than facts).

PJH

@aliceif said in Safe Space:

Calling me part of a "generation of snowflakes" is just kind of unfair, you know.

Hmm. Not my intention.

"Generation Snowflake" to me means a not insignificant minority of those, usually, going through university at the moment, not the whole gamut of people aged late teens to late 20's. Namely the ones who are epitomized by the crybullies cartoons.

It's akin to how "baby boomers" (1946 to 1964) are castigated (in the UK certainly, not sure about state-side) for the advantages they've supposedly had (increased housing equity, gold-plated pensions) to the detriment of following generations, when it's not everyone, or even a majority, in that age range that have actually had the advantages cited.

As a further datum point - one of my current dates was born in the mid-nineties and I'd by no means attribute 'snowflake' to them, even though it's some of their peers that (deservedly) attract that moniker.

Feel free to downvote this post as well.

aliceif

@PJH said in Safe Space:

Feel free to downvote this post as well.

Why would I? This one contains actual reasonable content.

blek

@aliceif The amount of whining about imaginary bullshit in your post doesn't go very far in persuading me that you're not a special snowflake. And the second one, too: "oh noes, I now have one less imaginary internet point!!!1". You might be a less severe case than some others, sure, but you still sound like you seriously need to get over yourself.

I was born in the late 80s so I'm part of that generation too. Yet, here I am, not giving a shit if anyone calls millenials or gen Y or whatever "special snowflakes" or "pussies", because I understand that the world doesn't revolve around me, so when someone talks about an entire generation they probably don't mean me, personally. You have to be seriously fucked in the head if you think anyone was talking about you.

Same goes for the "waaaah I'm a woman so people dismiss my opinions" thing. Did you ever stop and think that maybe, just maybe you're not the hot shit you are, and people are dismissive because nobody wants to hear about your first world problems?

aliceif

@blek Oh look, an anti-PC-warrior appeared.