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https://www.thesun.co.uk/uncategorized/1...-offended/

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”.

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.

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”.

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.”

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.

Post: #2

Good to see some dissenting voices in the mainstream, especially coming from women. Women are destroyers of civilizations and these past generations have been the worst women in history. These same women that consider everything and anything racist, offensive, threatening and misogynistic, that always cry about anything and everything, are the ones happily inviting racist, hate filled and bent on destruction hordes of muslim invaders. These same women that think a white person wearing a sombrero or dressed as an indian is an outrageous racist affront but are ok with whites being vilified and attacked everywhere. No wonder these cowards all vote for socialist/communist politicians, capitalism/free market is too tough for these fragile snowflakes. They're all a bunch of little fascist dictators and as men we need to stop being such pussies and stop coddling these retarded harpies.

Post: #3

What a reassurance! This is a great sign that not everyone is lining up behind Trigglypuff and the like.

However, it may be worth keeping an eye out to see what happens to this woman. It is definitely possible that her career may suffer, though that doesn't seem to be as much a risk for women as it is for men. If she manages to publish this without suffering repercussions, that would signal some kind of turning point at very least.

Post: #4

Quote: A top British thinker has claimed . .. .

Claire Fox, head of a thinktank

No such thing as a "top thinker"; everyone is a "thinker", and there is no way to measure who is "top" at it, except by performance, of which this person has done . . . ?

As someone else mentioned, nothing valuable is ever thought of in a 'thinktank', including this blinding flash of the obvious (youngins' are spoiled these days!).

Post: #5

The point is not that she's a top or a bottom thinker or if thinktanks are valuable or not, the point is that mainstream voices are speaking out against the prevailing culture, and I for one think it's a worthwhile discussion to have, unless you think there's nothing wrong going on, just youngins' being spoiled, to which I would say you are severely out of touch with our current reality.

Post: #6

She's not speaking out against the real, structural problems, only the superficial ones; and this is old news anyway. The top thinker is slow to the trigger: It's the "Little Frankensteins" objection.

(11-27-2015 01:04 AM)Roosh Wrote:  The establishment has lost control of its little Frankensteins. You'll start seeing them offer critiques of the more radical protesting SJW's, but never questioning their basic ideas of feminism, mass immigration, and environmentalism.

My guess is they will adopt the same strategy as taking down Occupy, by painting them as spoiled kids who have zany ideas.

And I myself recognize the beyond-superficial problems; I'm only saying that the Top-thinker-paid-to-think-think-tank-think-lady does not, but only has some kind of 'libertarian' (fake opposition that has no chance of stopping anything) rant on how dumb these punk kids are, as if they were born that way and not a product of the 24/7 media and educational complex.

Quote:Claire Fox has penned a book about Generation Snowflake which is called I Find That Offensive and was published by Biteback in May.

Nice free media marketing/Book pushin': a newspaper article as well about the same topic, all to get you to agree about those damn kids and pony up. Ain't that a coincidence?

Post: #7

You're nailing it. There's a guy called Dan Proft with a radio show in Chicago that goes crazy and keeps yelling that "Culture matters" when people call in about segment they did on the idiotic college kids who don't believe in the biological sexes, or whatever postmodern relativistic crap but, as you point out, he misses the point entirely:

It is the underlying institutional support of so many facets of society that led to this LONG AGO and only now you are seeing the dreaded symptoms of it (University indoctrination, immigration and identity politics, hatred of the traditional American culture just because, etc.). He acts like treating rabies in a few infected dogs, finally becoming fulminant disease is the answer to a problem that started with INCUBATION of rabies essentially when these dogs were born.

What's worse is the realization (no one wants to hear it, which is why maybe they don't talk about it) that the only solution is a re-set. The disease needs to be quarantined and exterminated, or else, a new place that is uninfected has to arise where healthy people can go, leaving the infected behind.

Post: #8

Maybe he and other people like him can't attack the establishment like Roosh does. But things are changing...

Post: #9

The lens that many young Western women view the world through: "Is this good for women, or not?"

And to constrain it even further, a cynic might say the only process really operating is "Is this good for me, or not?"

Having to deal with dissenting opinions and uncomfortable topics is not "good for women." I think in general it could be argued that having opinions that dissent from the mainstream provides little value to the average woman, and actually could be harmful. But for most of human history they tolerated it, in the same way they tolerated being hit on in bars, simply because that's how men were and they could take it or leave it - there weren't any other options.

The Internet and social media changed all that. With nearly unlimited options for socialization, news, and entertainment, it's completely possible to construct one's own reality and expunge from it the facets of the world that one doesn't like or agree with. If one man doesn't agree with the BS, then there's usually always another one of equal or better value down the pipe, willing to agree with anything for a shot to hit it.

Quote:“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.”

I don't believe that people are intrinsically atavistic by any means. But if you give them the opportunity to ruthlessly flex their self-interest with essentially no downsides, it would finally be foolish to choose any other option. And for whatever reason, their parents gave them the impression that instead of molding themselves to accommodate the world, that a better plan would be to try to mold the world to accommodate them. It's a futile effort that can end only in failure, but if they learned their sense of entitlement from anyone, they certainly learned from the best.

Being told "Yes" to everything, is slavery. Being told "No" - is freedom.

Post: #10

Self-interest? Exactly. If you think about it, about 99% of people is about self-interest. Money, fame, power, followers, self-control, even a good afterlife.