Citations:broflake

English citations of broflake

Noun

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• 2017 February 9, Christopher Hooton, “The first trailer for Netflix's 'Dear White People' is upsetting broflakes everywhere”, in The Independent‎^[1]:

  Netflix dropped the first trailer for its new comedy series Dear White People today, and already broflakes (what I’ve decided to call MAGA hat-wearing dudes who complain about “snowflakes” but are themselves overly sensitive) are cancelling their accounts.

• 2017, Hugo Rifkind, "If you can't find an enemy, just invent one", The Times, 18 July 2017, page 33:

  As this may be literally how that website's reader comments are produced, it's hardly surprising they've found the odd bit of Whovian broflake rage down there, too.

• 2017, Kate Pasola, "Heads Up", The Skinny, August 2017, page 9:

  Expect quips about class, race and identity from this serious up-and-comer. Broflakes, beware.

• 2017 October 17, Whitney Kimball, “Amber Tamblyn's James Woods Feud Inspires New York Times Op-Ed , But Woods Hates the Times, So There”, in Jezebel‎^[2]:

  Yesterday, actress Amber Tamblyn published a New York Times op-ed stemming from her Twitter feud with actor/broflake James Woods.

• 2018 January 10, Shaun Nichols, “1 in 5 STEM bros whinge they can't catch a break in tech world they run”, in The Register‎^[3]:

  Specifically, the broflakes said they had experienced gender discrimination against them at some point.

• 2018 February 9, Lanre Bakare, “Lena Dunham to remake Julia Davis sitcom Camping for HBO”, in The Guardian‎^[4]:

  Bring on the broflakes triggered by reading Lena Dunham's name.

• 2018 March 9, Jacqueline Maley, “Coalition has a problem with women - and Peta Credlin wants to fix it”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

  But here’s the thing about quotas, or - to protect the political broflakes (a portmanteau of “bros” and “snowflakes”, thank you internet) - here’s the thing about “targets”: they work.

• 2019, Kristin Rockaway, How to Hack a Heartbreak, unnumbered page:

  How dare Bob suggest that the solution to my problem with Hatch's messed-up broflake culture was a vacation?

• 2019, Caitlin Fisher, The Gaslighting of the Millennial Generation: How to Succeed in a Society That Blames You for Everything Gone Wrong, unnumbered page:

  There's no lack of amazing inclusive webcomics, video content, and Tumblr posts to go around, but gender inclusion has also hit the mainstream in exciting ways that make all the broflakes really grumpy.

• 2019, Lilly Felk & Isaac Wright, "5 Reasons Why You Should Read Nietzche", PAX Magazine (Leiden University), Block 4 (2019), page 31:

  In a world of echo chambers and snow-/broflakes, to find an intelligent, articulate author challenging our fundamental assumptions (like egalitarianism, technological progress, and pity=good) is a breath of fresh air, intellectually speaking.

• 2019, "Cabaret & Circus", Brighton Fringe 2019, page 24:

  Resist man-made monsters like broflakes and binaries at our cabaret of camaraderie, with artist rebels and allies that refuse to go down quietly; in heels, in binders and in solidarity!

• 2019, Andrina Voegele, "The Rise of the Broflake", Her Culture, Summer 2019, page 131:

  Broflakes have a hard time with the idea that not every social justice movement is a direct attack on them and that there are indeed some prevalent problems in our society that have to do with gender, race, sexual identity, and any of those other topics that broflakes would rather die than acknowledge, let alone have an open-minded dialogue about.