Feminists and other SJW's live in a victimhood culture and demand the rest of us do the same.

According Bradley Campell and Jason Manning in their paper Microaggression and Moral Cultures:

Microaggression complaints have characteristics that put them at odds with both honor and dignity cultures. Honorable people are sensitive to insult, and so they would understand that microaggressions, even if unintentional, are severe offenses that demand a serious response. But honor cultures value unilateral aggression and disparage appeals for help. Public complaints that advertise or even exaggerate one’s own victimization and need for sympathy would be anathema to a person of honor – tantamount to showing that one had no honor at all.

Members of a dignity culture, on the other hand, would see no shame in appealing to third parties, but they would not approve of such appeals for minor and merely verbal offenses. Instead they would likely counsel either confronting the offender directly to discuss the issue, or better yet, ignoring the remarks altogether.

A culture of victimhood is one characterized by concern with status and sensitivity to slight combined with a heavy reliance on third parties. People are intolerant of insults, even if unintentional, and react by bringing them to the attention of authorities or to the public at large. Domination is the main form of deviance*, and victimization a way of attracting sympathy, so rather than emphasize either their strength or inner worth, the aggrieved emphasize their oppression and social marginalization.

*I would argue that dominance is not, in fact, the main form of social deviance in victimhood cultures, as SJW's themselves seek to dominate others.

Victimhood culture may be seen as an example of toxic femininity: status is achieved through alleged victimhood, weakness is celebrated over competence, social violence is used to bully and ostracize others, proxy violence is used to expel the troublemaker, individual responsibility is all but eliminated, and hurt feelings are elevated to the status of an atrocity.

Worst of all, it diminishes individual agency and group harmony in favor of a childlike tattle-tale/snitch culture in which a dominant minority exercises power over all individuals. No wonder ruling elites love feminism so much.

The ironic thing about these special snowflakes is that most of them grew up privileged. They tend to be upper middle class and rich girls. Working class people are accustomed to real struggle and tend not to throw temper tantrums over trivial affairs.

Single motherhood is also a major factor. Fathers help instill autonomy, self-reliance, empathy, honor and other crucial traits in children.