{"id":5964,"date":"2019-02-13T14:37:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richyrocks.com\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2023-04-14T20:52:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T02:52:53","slug":"snowflakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/snowflakes\/","title":{"rendered":"snowflake: a special, unique insult for easily offended people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>this is a <strong><i>snowflake<\/i><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/flake1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8967\" src=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/flake1-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"a snowflake\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/flake1-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/flake1.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><i>a snowflake (kenneth g. libbrecht)<\/i><\/h5>\n<p>according to legend, no two <i>snowflakes<\/i> are <strong><i><a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/tag\/alike-definition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alike<\/a><\/i><\/strong> (the same). they are special and <strong><i>unique <\/i><\/strong>(one of a kind, original). but according to tyler durban, <strong>brad pitt<\/strong>&#8216;s character in the movie <strong><i>fight club<\/i><\/strong>, people are not like <i>snowflakes<\/i>. specifically he says&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4><i>listen up, maggots<\/i>. u are not special. u are not a beautiful and <i>unique snowflake<\/i>. u are the same <i>decaying<\/i> organic matter as everything else<\/h4>\n<div style=\"position: relative; overflow: hidden; width: 100%; max-width: 600px; margin: 0 auto; padding-top: 42%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/clip.cafe\/e\/15378\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>listen up<\/i><\/strong> means <i>pay attention<\/i>. <strong><i>maggot<\/i><\/strong> is an insult. its original definition is <i>fly larva<\/i>, <i><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ie-def\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">i.e<\/a><\/strong><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ie-def\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">.<\/a> (in other words), <i>a baby fly<\/i>. <i><strong>decay<\/strong><\/i> means <i>deteriorate<\/i>, <i>decompose<\/i>.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#x2744;&#xfe0f;<\/h4>\n<p>many people credit this short speech with creating a new application for the word <i>snowflake<\/i>. and <strong>chuck palahniuk<\/strong>, the author of the book that the movie was based on accepts this credit, as indicated in  from <strong>the independent<\/strong> website<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\">Chuck Palahniuk takes credit for \u2018<i>snowflake<\/i>\u2019 term, thinks the <i>Left<\/i> needs to <i>get its shit together<\/i><\/h1>\n<p><i><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-english-practice-with-mexicos-next-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the left<\/a><\/strong><\/i><i> <\/i>refers to <i>political liberals<\/i>. <strong><i>get their shit together<\/i><\/strong> means <i>organize better<\/i>. or specifically, as palahniuk explains in the article, <i>be less offended<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/61wfUmGRZzL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8969\" src=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/61wfUmGRZzL._SX329_BO1204203200_-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"the cover of the book fight club\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/61wfUmGRZzL._SX329_BO1204203200_-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/61wfUmGRZzL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><i>the book<\/i><\/h5>\n<p> for <i>snowflake<\/i> at the moment on <strong>urban dictionary<\/strong> confirms palahniuk&#8217;s opinion&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4>a term for someone that thinks they are <i>unique<\/i> and special, but really are not. it <i>gained<\/i> popularity after the movie fight club &#8230;&#8230; [it] began being used extensively as a <i>putdown<\/i> for someone, usually on the political <i>left<\/i>, who is easily offended or felt they needed a &#8220;safe space&#8221; away from the <i>harsh<\/i> realities of the world, but now has <i>morphed into<\/i> a general <i>putdown<\/i> for anyone that <i>complains<\/i> about any subject.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"headline\"><i><strong><\/strong><\/i> means <i>get more<\/i>. a <strong><i>putdown<\/i><\/strong> is an <i>insult<\/i>. <strong><i><\/i><\/strong> means <i>hard<\/i>, <i>cruel<\/i>. <strong><i><\/i><\/strong> means <i>become<\/i>. <strong><i><a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/we-used-a-robot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complain<\/a><\/i><\/strong> means <i>verbally express disagreement or frustration<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/images-15.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8980 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/images-15.jpeg\" alt=\"a fry (futurama) meme u complain about my complaining. isn't that complaining?\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><i><a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/nobody-remembers-second-place\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">indeed<\/a><\/i><\/h5>\n<p>on <strong>thinkprogress.org<\/strong>, <strong>jessica m. goldstein<\/strong>  about the use of <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><i>snowflake<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>it\u2019s hard to think of [an insult] that so clearly <i>conveys<\/i> so many <i>flaws<\/i> at once: fragility and <i>self-importance<\/i>, <i>weakness<\/i> and <i>self-delusion<\/i>.<\/h4>\n<p><strong><i><\/i><\/strong> is <i>communicate<\/i>. <strong><i><\/i><\/strong> are <i>imperfections<\/i>. <strong><i>self-importance<\/i><\/strong> is a person <i>exaggerating how important they are<\/i>, <strong><i>self-delusion<\/i><\/strong> is a person <i>failing to accept reality<\/i>. <strong><i><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/weakness-definition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weakness<\/a><\/i><\/strong> is <i>the opposite of strength<\/i>. <strong><i>fragility<\/i><\/strong> is the noun equivalent of <strong><i>fragile<\/i><\/strong> which means<i> easy to break <\/i>and is the title of this <strong>kygo<\/strong> and <strong>labrinth<\/strong> track.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kygo, Labrinth - Fragile (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"758\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dfBj4i8MKH4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>goldstein&#8217;s article quotes <strong>jonathon green<\/strong>, an author of several slang dicitionaries, who said that the power of <i>snowflake<\/i> as an insult&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4>works in two ways. it <i>melts<\/i> under the heat, it has no <i>backbone<\/i>, no <i>spine<\/i>, no <i>guts<\/i>, no spirit, anything. it just <i>fades away as soon as<\/i> people are <i>nasty<\/i> to it. and the other side is the special side of it. every little snowflake is different and has its own identity.<\/h4>\n<p><i><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/melt-definition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">melt<\/a><\/strong><\/i> means <i>go from snow to water<\/i>. <i><strong>backbone<\/strong><\/i> and <strong><i>spine<\/i><\/strong> are synonyms that indicate <i>strength of character<\/i> or <i>determination<\/i>. <i><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/guts-definition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">guts<\/a><\/strong><\/i> means <i>courage<\/i>, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/the-u-the-ima-in-fua\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grit<\/a><\/i>. <strong><i><a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/mexico-and-military-service-in-south-korea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fade away<\/a><\/i><\/strong> means <i>gradually disappear<\/i>. <i><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/as-soon-as-definition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as soon as<\/a><\/strong><\/i> means <i>at that moment<\/i>. <i><strong><\/strong><\/i> is <i>mean<\/i>, <i>bad<\/i>. it was also the title of a huge hit by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wardrobe-malfunction-justin-timberlake-at-the-super-bowl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">janet jackson<\/a><\/strong> in 1986.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Janet Jackson - Nasty (Official Music Video)\" width=\"758\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-s1fHtIVqiQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>and goldstein also includes this more aggressive definition of <i>snowflake<\/i> that is full of vocabulary to talk about emotions in the 21st century<\/p>\n<h4>an <i>entitled<\/i> <i>millennial<\/i> <i>sjw-tard<\/i> who runs to her \u201csafe space\u201d to play with <i>stress toys<\/i> and <i>coloring books<\/i> when she gets \u2018<i>triggered<\/i>\u201d by various <i>innocuous<\/i> \u201c<i>microaggressions<\/i>\u2019<\/h4>\n<p><strong><i><\/i><\/strong> are currently between the ages of 23-38 (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/roughly-definition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roughly<\/a>). <i>sjw-tard<\/i> is an invented word. <strong><i>sjw<\/i><\/strong> stands for<i> social justice warrior<\/i>. it is used sarcastically. <i><strong>-tard<\/strong><\/i> is a fashionable slang suffix added to insult someone by saying they are <i>stupid<\/i>. the origin of this trend is the word <i>retard<\/i>. BE CAREFUL. <strong><i>retard<\/i><\/strong> is short for <em>retarded<\/em> which is a highly offensive way to refer to people with intellecutal disabilities.\u00a0 words that have the -tard suffix can be considered offensive too. <strong><i>entitled<\/i><\/strong> means <i>believing that u <\/i><i><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/deserve-def\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deserve<\/a><\/i><i> something<\/i>,<\/p>\n<p>a few years before the first millennials were born, <i>entitled<\/i> was used by both <strong>tom cruise<\/strong> and <strong>jack nicholson<\/strong> in this famous scene from the movie <strong><i>a few good men. <\/i><\/strong>there is a parody of this scene on the richyrocks <strong>youtube channel<\/strong>. watch it<a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/u-cant-handle-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"You Can&#039;t Handle the Truth! - A Few Good Men (7\/8) Movie CLIP (1992) HD\" width=\"758\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9FnO3igOkOk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>stress toys<\/i><\/strong> <i>relieve stress<\/i>. <strong><i>coloring books<\/i><\/strong> are<i> <\/i>full of blank drawings; color is added with crayons, colored pencils, etc. <strong><i><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/trigger-definition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">triggered<\/a><\/i><\/strong> in this context is when <i>an event causes painful memories and a strong, possibly excessive reaction<\/i>. <i><strong>innocuous<\/strong><\/i> means <i>inoffensive<\/i>. <i><strong>microaggressions<\/strong><\/i><i> <\/i>are <i>subtle, unintentional acts of discrimination<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/stresstoysgroot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8982\" src=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/stresstoysgroot-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"dancing groot toy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/stresstoysgroot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/stresstoysgroot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/stresstoysgroot.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><i>dancing groot is a <\/i><u><i>stress toy.<\/i><\/u><i> it will dance to any music it hears, <\/i><i><\/i><i> relieving stress for snowflakes.<\/i><\/h5>\n<p>are people in the 21st century too sensitive? 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