> All this pussy footing around just to possibly not offend someone, drives me mad.
Agreed. I have no patience for snowflakes either.
> You wanna say fuck in the context of saying it is a swear word then just say the word.
The problem is that indiscriminate use of the word trivializes it and dilutes its effectiveness. In bygone days, "fuck" was a nuclear class profanity, so much so that a kid who accidentally used in front of his parents might find himself sucking a soap bar like little Ralphie in A Christmas Story. Now? Its use on cable television is ubiquitous, and even on broadcast television where it's not supposed to be heard it still happens with little penalty imposed on broadcasters. It's inevitable that the FCC will drop it from the list of banned words -- the course of current events demands it. Then we'll see it used in advertising -- "Campbell's soup is fucking good!" "Black and Decker, when you don't want to fuck up the job." As an insult, "fuck you" will be no more powerful than "you're a jerk." And then, when you need a nuclear weapon to burn someone who really deserves it, say, a quivering, trembling snowflake, what will you say?
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Furienna (3345)
4 years ago
Is it necessary to call people "snowflakes" because they don't like certain words though?
Then again, I guess I can see being a "snowflake" as being a unique and beautiful (but fragile) person.
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BullSchmidt (3189)
4 years ago
> Is it necessary to call people "snowflakes" because they don't like certain words though?
No, but I don't consider people to be snowflakes just because they don't like certain words. To me, snowflakes are those who take umbrage at being confronted with any view they disagree with; expect all controversial ideas to be tagged with trigger warnings; cry foul at any assertion that contradicts their warped worldview. A snowflake is someone who seriously believes that he or she has the right to sail through life never being offended by anything, and that everyone else is obliged to respect that right. They implicitly claim that the rest of us exist to serve them. As such, they do deserve nuclear class abuse, a real verbal kick in the face.
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sokar (2098)
4 years ago
Think you just perfectly described Twitter
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BullSchmidt (3189)
4 years ago
> Think you just perfectly described Twitter
Ha! I barely glance at Twitter, but I believe that, because from what I hear so many of its users honor the snowflake mentality. It seems that every day we hear of someone deleting a tweet just because someone else was bothered by it. As if that would somehow erase the fact that they had made the statement in the first place! What an utterly cowardly act. I'm proud to say that in my entire 15+ years on the IMDB boards then on here, I have never deleted or altered a post once it has been quoted or replied to. I've occasionally added a PS within a post to correct an error, and I've had to give apologies a few times. It hasn't been easy. There was one post I made on IMDB about twelve years ago that I was mortified over afterward, that I desperately wanted to bury. But erase the evidence? No. I take full responsibility for what I say, good and bad, and anyone who wants to judge me has the full record available to them. I figure doing it that way is just part of being a man.
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