Posted on 06/22/2018 5:07:54 PM PDT by simpson96
CBS Local — Millennials have been labeled by many of their critics as a generation of “snowflakes.” The term has been used to slam society’s young adults and teens as hypersensitive and too easily offended. Now, millennials may have just given older adults even more to roll their eyes at after a new study found a majority of the “snowflakes” think the term is harmful to their mental health.
According to the study, published by British health insurer Aviva, a staggering 74 percent of 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK felt the snowflake label could have a negative impact on someone’s mental health. 72 percent of those surveyed felt the term was unfairly pinned on their age group.
The study also found that nearly 60 percent of adults in the UK admitted the term wasn’t helping young adults shake the stereotype that millennials are “soft.” A separate Aviva report added that young adults in the UK were the most likely to have mental health issues; with 63 percent having suffered some type of condition.
In the United States, the cultural divide between millennials and older Americans may be even greater. The stigma surrounding “Generation Snowflake” has pushed some companies to refine their interview process in hopes of filtering out over-sensitive youngsters. The Silent Partner Marketing firm made headlines in March after CEO Kyle Reyes created the “Snowflake Test” to help the his company and others sift through younger candidates.
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A “label” is all it takes?
Yikes.
They should ice their poor heads down to minimize the pain.
What shall we call them, baby bunnies?
Thus proving everything said about them is true. I wonder if the comprehend the irony.
If that term offends them, then their “mental health” was already in question before the term was coined.
A generation of basket cases.
That’s the point, morons.
Are they stupid, or what?
What does labeling people as NAZIs do?
What Mental Health ?
THAT! Right THERE! That's why you crybaby whiny-buts get called snowflakes. You have the backbone of a jellyfish and are offended by by the wind.
Let’s see - compare the young adults in Britain in, say, 1910s to this generation. The best and brightest gave their all in WWI. Today, Generation Snowflake is too lazy to even leave their mom’s basement to work and scared of their own shadow.
No kidding? That’s why you’re snowflakes, idiots!
Don’t say they’re too sensitive-it’ll hurt their feelings! They’re also too dumb to see the irony. If they know what it means.
No kidding? That’s why you’re snowflakes, idiots!
SNOWFLAKES!!!!!
LOL! The label fits, the article proves it.
I’m not even sure why we refer to them as “Millennials”.
Who cares when these cretins were born, call them what they are.
SNOWFLAKES!
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