{"id":4781,"date":"2017-06-15T10:20:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T14:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2017-06-15T10:20:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T14:20:52","slug":"how-snowflake-became-americas-inescapable-tough-guy-taunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/shared\/how-snowflake-became-americas-inescapable-tough-guy-taunt\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018Snowflake\u2019 Became America\u2019s Inescapable Tough-Guy Taunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political Discourse, 2017 finds its roots in Fight Club.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Today\u2019s tough-guy posturing seems rooted, paradoxically, in threat and fear: fear of defeat, fear of lost status and fear that society is growing increasingly ill suited to tough-guy posturing in the first place. The narrator of \u201cFight Club,\u201d source of that \u201csnowflake\u201d mantra, was a delusional man coping with modernity by inventing a hypermasculine alter-ego, imagining himself as the man-cult leader Tyler Durden. But making an entire alternate masculine identity is a lot of work. It\u2019s always much easier to just call other people wimps and snowflakes \u2014 and hope they\u2019ll be intimidated enough to melt away.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via &#8211; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/13\/magazine\/how-snowflake-became-americas-inescapable-tough-guy-taunt.html\">How \u2018Snowflake\u2019 Became America\u2019s Inescapable Tough-Guy Taunt &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Discourse, 2017 finds its roots in Fight Club. Today\u2019s tough-guy posturing seems rooted, paradoxically, in threat and fear: fear of defeat, fear of lost status and fear that society is growing increasingly ill suited to tough-guy posturing in the first place. The narrator of \u201cFight Club,\u201d source of that \u201csnowflake\u201d mantra, was a delusional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[286],"tags":[1162,1161,1163],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-shared","tag-fight-club","tag-snowflake","tag-tough-guy","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4784,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions\/4784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}