snowflakery
Exaggerated emotional delicateness
Snowflakery is the quality or behavior attributed to snowflakes—people perceived as overly sensitive, easily offended, or requiring special treatment.
The term is dismissive, typically used by critics of progressive politics to characterize demands for emotional safety or accommodation as excessive fragility: All this snowflakery about trigger warnings is getting ridiculous.
Excessive emotional reactivity
- entitlementAssumed right to benefits
- wokenessAwareness of social inequities
- coddlingOverindulgent, protective treatment
- fragilityEase of breaking
triggering · safe spaces · political correctness · cancel culture · victimhood · outrage · millennials · liberalism
Prizes for mere involvement
- helicopter parentingExcessive involvement in children's lives
- trigger warningsAlerts preceding distressing material
- microaggressionsMinor discriminatory remarks
- safe roomsFortified domestic hiding spaces
self-absorption · narcissism · individuality · exceptionalism · delicate · preciousness · overprotection · victimization
oversensitivity
Excessive emotional reactivity
- entitlementAssumed right to benefits
- wokenessAwareness of social inequities
- coddlingOverindulgent, protective treatment
fragility · triggering · safe spaces · political correctness · cancel culture · victimhood · outrage · millennials · liberalism · leftism
participation trophies
Prizes for mere involvement
- helicopter parentingExcessive involvement in children's lives
- trigger warningsAlerts preceding distressing material
- microaggressionsMinor discriminatory remarks
safe rooms · self-absorption · narcissism · individuality · exceptionalism · delicate · preciousness · overprotection · victimization · infantilization
snowflakerytoughness
Resilient durability under strain
resilience · hardiness · fortitude · grit · stoicism
snowflakerybootstrap mentality
Faith in unassisted success
rugged individualism · machismo · self-reliance · stiff upper lip · traditionalism
- special snowflakeOne demanding unique treatment
- paper snowflakeCraft from folded, cut sheets
- snowflake's chance in hellZero probability of success
- snowflake patternDecorative frozen-water shape
- snowflake lightsDecorative ice-crystal-shaped lamps
- snowflake generationYouth perceived as oversensitive