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Don't call us snowflakes - it damages our mental health, say young people
The Telegraph ^
| 12/5/17
| Olivia Rudgard
Posted on 12/05/2017 4:49:52 PM PST by markomalley
Being called a "snowflake" is damaging to mental health, young people say. Figures show that the majority of young people think the term is unfair - and even more think it could have a negative effect of its own.
The "snowflake generation" is a disparaging term now commonly used to refer to young people, who are perceived to be over-sensitive and intolerant of disagreement.
But research by insurance firm Aviva found that 72 per cent of 16-24 year-olds think the term is unfairly applied, while 74 per cent think it could have a negative effect on young people's mental health.
The figures also show that young people are more likely to have experienced stress, anxiety and depression in the last year.
Almost half of adults between 16 and 24 said they had experienced stress or anxiety, compared to just over a third of all UK adults.
Young adults were also more likely to be uncomfortable talking about a mental health problem, with one in three saying this compared to 27 per cent of all adults.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: snowflakes
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To: markomalley
Totalitarian Nazi thug special snowflakes.
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posted on
12/05/2017 5:25:04 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: Enchante
42
posted on
12/05/2017 5:25:11 PM PST
by
Enchante
(Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
To: markomalley
I️ say stop calling them snowflakes Were getting them ready to take care of the country, of us. You think theyre going to give a rats ass about baby boomer selfish sots who slapped them with this deficit then call them names Stop it Now
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posted on
12/05/2017 5:33:50 PM PST
by
stanne
To: markomalley
Almost half of adults between 16 and 24 said they had experienced stress or anxiety, compared to just over a third of all UK adults. STRESS!!!???
When I was 18 years old I was part of a four-man Combat Crew that had the responsibility of maintaining and launching an ICBM with a nine megaton nuclear warhead on top. The stress involved with the constant training and testing, having to be 100% correct all the time, was beyond tremendous. Being at the pointy end of the nuclear spear with the weight of the Free World on our shoulders was stressful and so very fulfilling.
These young adults today are pantywaist little prigs who have no ability to grow up and help make the world a better place by working for a living.
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posted on
12/05/2017 5:40:03 PM PST
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: Fred Hayek
Or....
You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As they say in Texas. Ill bet you couldnt pour !@#$ out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that wont go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. Youre a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon. You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformation. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell? Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly. You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. Youre a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep wont have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusional self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake? You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral[size] equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meat slapper. On a good day youre a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You smarmy lager lout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oink artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill. You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away. I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. Im sorry. I cant go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I dont have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh. The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of what you wrote, because, well... it didnt really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative flame was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us normal people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are challenged persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldnt have been right. Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you. P.S.: You are hypocritical, greedy, violent, malevolent, vengeful, cowardly, deadly, mendacious, meretricious, loathsome, despicable, belligerent, opportunistic, barratrous, contemptible, criminal, fascistic, bigoted, racist, sexist, avaricious, tasteless, idiotic, brain-damaged, imbecilic, insane, arrogant, deceitful, demented, lame, self-righteous, byzantine, conspiratorial, satanic, fraudulent, libelous, bilious, splenetic, spastic, ignorant, clueless, illegitimate, harmful, destructive, dumb, evasive, double-talking, devious, revisionist, narrow, manipulative, paternalistic, fundamentalist, dogmatic, idolatrous, unethical, cultic, diseased, suppressive, controlling, restrictive, malignant, deceptive, dim, crazy, weird, dystopic, stifling, uncaring, plantigrade, grim, unsympathetic, jargon-spouting, censorious, secretive, aggressive, mind-numbing, abrasive, poisonous, flagrant, self-destructive, abusive, socially-retarded, puerile, clueless, and generally Not Good. (yes, Im done now)
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posted on
12/05/2017 5:48:27 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: markomalley
74 per cent think it could have a negative effect on young people's mental health.In other words, snowflakes tell us exactly why they should be called snowflakes.
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posted on
12/05/2017 5:50:05 PM PST
by
Cubs Fan
(Trump is all that stands between America and left wing totalitarianism)
To: markomalley
How about just “flakes” then?
To: markomalley
It is *because* their mental health is damaged that we call them "snowflakes".
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posted on
12/05/2017 6:08:28 PM PST
by
so_real
( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
To: markomalley
Hilarious.
If they ever heard or saw the word “courage” they would have to look it up.
To: markomalley
I've had enough of these people.
To: Fred Hayek
Ok—snowflake is kinda cold.
So, I’ll just call you flakes!
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posted on
12/05/2017 6:37:31 PM PST
by
milagro
(There is no peace in appeasement!)
To: markomalley
The snowflake generation should be ashamed at their over-sensitivity.
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posted on
12/05/2017 6:40:31 PM PST
by
Crolis
("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." -GKC)
To: markomalley
then i guess enema nozzle would be frowned upon
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posted on
12/05/2017 6:46:15 PM PST
by
Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
To: markomalley
Call a waaambulance.
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posted on
12/05/2017 6:50:38 PM PST
by
eldoradude
(Keep calm...we'll get to the carrion part later.)
To: markomalley; 100American; al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; ...
We who use the term “snowflake” to describe such people do hereby rest our case.
DANG!
To: Crolis
June 6, 1944: Some of those young men drowned under the weight of their packs right after leaving their boats.
June 6, 2017: “Eeek! A conservative!”
To: markomalley
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posted on
12/05/2017 7:03:01 PM PST
by
Puckster
(70 weeks of Daniel)
To: markomalley
Gee, I guess “whinging fairies” is right out, then. (There - kept it PG).
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posted on
12/05/2017 7:22:14 PM PST
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: markomalley
59
posted on
12/05/2017 7:24:26 PM PST
by
ronnie raygun
(Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
To: markomalley
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posted on
12/05/2017 8:17:45 PM PST
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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