Am I a woke snowflake?

Or am I triggered, cos I’m certainly not an OK boomer.

Michael Freer
3 min readDec 30, 2019
Photo by Romain Vignes on Unsplash

In a world where new words, phrases or sayings seem to be published every day, it’s pretty hard to keep up. Then you get called one of these words, and you have to look it up. Not all of these words are that new, however the way they’re used changes depending on who says them, or who is on the receiving end of them.

Not living in the UK doesn’t help things really, I’m still getting to grips with the differences between Dalmatian Croatian and official Croatian, so I don’t have time to be reading UrbanDictionary every day or following Twitter for the new trends.

Definitions

Before I get started on my point, let me tell you what all those words in the title actually mean, for those of you that don’t know.

‘Woke’ generally means ‘keeping up with today’ and by today they mean the injustice that is happening around the world, be it sexism, racism and other injustices. Others use it for people perceived to overreact to these terms.

‘Snowflake’ means someone that is easily hurt or offended. Or perceived to be easily hurt of offended.

‘Triggered’ was only introduced to me by a meme addict recently. Often used against feminists, or perceived feminists, to describe…

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Michael Freer

Social enterprise enthusiast, avid traveller and fiction writer. www.ensoco.co.uk