Recently the term "snowflake" has taken on a derogatory connotation and is no longer what wish for when we want a white Christmas. The slang insult "suggests" that individuals, primarily young people such as myself, take offense to EVERYTHING from politic policy changes to offensive comments are as weak and vulnerable as a speck of snow. So to all of the angry conservatives, Republicans, Trump supporters and anyone else who uses the term “snowflakes”, I want to give you a warm thank you.

Thank you for calling me, and everyone else who spouts a different point of view than you a snowflake because I know that you are seeing and accepting our differences as members of the human race.

Every snowflake is unique compared to its brothers and sisters; no two snowflakes are the exact same. The technical definition of a snowflake is a flake of snow, especially a feathery ice crystal, typically displaying delicate sixfold symmetry. One snowflake may look similar to the one beside it, but somewhere there is a structural difference that makes that snowflake stand out from the rest.

Snowflakes are not weak, either. Have you ever been a blizzard? Have you ever been blinded by snow? And don't even get me started in all of the wondrous and awe-inspiring snow sculptures. I think that it is just absolutely amazing that all of the tiny, unique individual small snowflakes formed such a huge and formidable sculpture. I mean you can start with a simple snowflake, but a lot of snowflakes make a snowstorm. Even just an inch of snow freaks out the southern states and makes them close down. Snowflakes sure are fragile if they can send a whole state into a state of emergency and panic

"No two snowflakes are alike, no two people are the same..." -Arnold Horshack

Sincerely,

someone a college student and proud feminist who is honored to be part of "Generation Snowflake"