Sir, – I must admit that the letters attacking "Generation Snowflake" (as described in Brian Boyd's Opinion & Analysis column, July 20th), of which I am allegedly a member, certainly have me triggered.
I no longer feel your paper is a “safe space” for me and I attempted to “jazz hands” myself back to wellness but alas, of no use.
Perhaps if the preceding generation had not decimated the incomes and conditions for new entrants into almost every profession, the “snowflakes” might feel less fragile.
Perhaps if our betters had not made it impossible to buy a home for young people on the average industrial wage, or if a generation didn’t have to emigrate because of our forebear’s carry-on, we wouldn’t be as “angry”.
Judith Goldberger (Letters, July 22nd) is wrong to say we don't consider the ballot box a "safe space".
The Irish “snowflakes” showed quite clearly what they would do at the ballot box when given the opportunity in the marriage equality referendum. I suspect that’s why our elders are clinging to it so tightly when it comes to the Eighth Amendment.
I don’t quite know how I and many people I know manage to work 50-plus hour weeks, pay off student debt, and pay extortionate rent and tax for vastly reduced prospects with our crippling hysterical fragility.
I’m off to console myself with a Fair Trade kale smoothie
– Is mise,
RUTH CADEN
Virginia,
Cavan.
Sir, – Labels such as millennials, baby boomers, war babies and so on, are no more than that. They are an aspect of culturalism and are used by those looking for an identity.
Expressions such as ethnic culture or folk culture are legitimate and helpful in this respect.
Expressions such as corporate culture or banking culture or “that was the culture of the time then” are not, since they can be invoked to provide a veneer of authenticity for and a justification of some actions that, though legal, are clearly immoral.
We need to worry about the millennial snowflakes only when and if they turn into an avalanche.
– Yours, etc,
D KEOGH
Bray,
Co Wicklow.