Posted on 06/09/2016 8:03:39 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
British thinktank boss says mollycoddled kids are breaking down in tears when asked to deal with controversial ideas
A top British thinker has claimed young women are in the grip of a “hysteria” which has made them unable to cope with being offended.
Claire Fox, head of a thinktank called the Institute of Ideas, has penned a coruscating critique of “Generation Snowflake”, the name given to a growing group of youngsters who “believe it’s their right to be protected from anything they might find unpalatable”.
Generation Snowflake
She said British and American universities are dominated by cabals of young women who are dead set on banning anything they find remotely offensive.
“It makes me sad that these teens and 20-somethings have become so fearful that they believe a dissenting opinion can pose such a serious threat,” Fox wrote in an article for Mail Online.
This hyper-sensitivity has prompted the University of East Anglia to outlaw sombreros in a Mexican restaurant and caused the National Union of Student to ban clapping as “as it might trigger trauma”, asking youngsters to use “jazz hands” instead.
The sombreros were seen as racist
Is the sombrero really too racist to be worn in Britain?
Books containing troublesome material are now slapped with “trigger warnings”, whilst universities and student unions are declared “safe spaces” where young people should not have to encounter anything they disagree with.
Fox described astonishing scenes at an event set up to discuss whether the public outcry against footballer Ched Evans was “social justice or mob rule”.
The academic said her mostly female audience broke down in tears after she “dared suggest (as eminent feminists have before me) that rape wasn’t necessarily the worst thing a woman could experience”.
Safe space: Should youngsters be protected from troubling material?
Fox added: “I expected robust discussion – not for them all to dissolve into outraged gasps of, ‘You can’t say that!’
“Their reaction shocked me. I take no pleasure in making teenagers cry, but it also brought home the contrast to previous generations of young people, who would have relished the chance to argue back.
“It illustrated this generation’s almost belligerent sense of entitlement. They assume their emotional suffering takes precedence. Express a view they disagree with and you must immediately recant and apologise.”
Are some ideas too controversial to be heard?
Generation Snowflake has also created a social minefield for young boys and men, who risk being labelled “sex pests” for twanging a girl’s bra at school, Fox continued.
She said women were opting to stay at home and socialise on the internet due to overblown fears about predatory men.
“There is a strand of self-absorption and fragility running through this generation; all too ready to cry ‘victim’ at the first hint of a situation they don’t like,” Fox concluded.
“We need a younger generation that’s prepared to grow a backbone, go out into the world, take risks and make difficult decisions. Otherwise the future doesn’t bode well for any of us.”
Claire Fox has penned a book about Generation Snowflake which is called I Find That Offensive and was published by Biteback in May.
It isn’t just women, it’s nearly everyone under 30 as of about 2012.
Oh you dont know the half of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tQhZM5QfM4
THIS IS WHAT IT HAS COME TOO!
(I would suggest turning the volume down before)
You will watch this multiple times in disbelief.
Time for the snowflakes to grow up, grow a pair and face the world of reality.
Keep it up , maybe she’ll Explode
First off, this is primarily about women.
Thus, and because it is much more polite and kid-friendly, and more accurate, I strongly encourage traditional phrases involving guts. It is guts which go squirrelly when things get scary. Not men parts.
(Off my soapbox!)
Why? What kind of "robust discussion" could be generated by the contention that rape isn't the worst fate a woman can experience? (I agree, by the way: drawing and quartering, burning alive, having one's eyes gouged out, root planing without anesthesia ... I expect all those are worse.)
Still, once we've agreed, what does this information add to any discussion of social attitudes or policies regarding rape? Sports figures aren't drawing and quartering drunk young women, but they are raping some.
Maybe there should be mandatory euthanizing for stupid people.
I agree with you. So funny that men say they want women to be feminine, but to “grow a pair.”
Mark Stein was using this term to describe men and women yesterday-—the Sanders voters.
All mollycoddled kids who break down in tears, when asked to deal with controversial ideas, OFFEND ME.
For later.
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It’s low-class sexual imagery. We don’t need more of that talk. Including the foul hostile words also flung around here too much.
And does not make sense. What is the main thing that goes bad when upset, scared silly? Guts. They get queezy, get diarrhea feeling. That is where the classic phrase comes from.
This is the first generation growing up with the internet and 500 channel cable. Due to our inherent logical problems such as confirmation bias and selection bias, coupled with technology, we don’t have to be exposed to any ideas we don’t want to think about.
It has to be performance art.
Not surprising, and absolutely predictable. Everything the “progressive” “tolerance” and “diversity” crowd has been preaching has been leading directly to this. And I think it has been deliberately intended to produce exactly this result, a generation of weak-minded emotionally-driven mush heads that are nothing more than easily-manipulated robots.
She won’t be dealing with controversial ideas once Islam takes over England. She’ll get put in a burqua and told to stay in the house all day and won’t be allowed to read.
The new Puritanism.
The answer, as we’re seeing, is to burn PC heretics at the (metaphorical) stake.
No, no, you missed the memo ... talking about genitalia shows you're a Real Man, not some lily-livered establishment elitist!)
(That would be irony if it weren't reality, you know?
Certainly my guts are the relevant area.
The Generation of the Perpetually Offended
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