Every complaint about any personal struggle is valid.
But nobody is entitled to anyone giving a fuck, and there’s not a lot of fucks around reserved for someone whose main complaint is that their private school cafeteria had too few butlers.
Do you think a child who skins his knee is allowed to cry? I mean, he wasn’t shot or tortured, after all. The answer is all pain and struggle is relative to what the person’s experiences are.
People from privileged backgrounds didn’t choose to have a privileged background either. What matters is what you have experienced in your life and what you do with that experience. Suffering and trauma is not a competition, there are no winners. Everyone’s experience is valid. Everyone has a right to complain.
Not everyone has a right for their complains to be listened to and followed up on, though, because complaining on its own doesn’t mean anything. What’s more important is what your complaint is trying to change, what is your purpose in complaining? That makes all the difference, that’s what decides whether you have a “right” for your complaint to be actioned, and that has nothing to do with what background you come from.
Some people from privileged backgrounds might complain in order to assert, protect and extend their privilege, obviously, that’s not valid. Others may complain because they want their abuser brought to justice or want other people protected from the same situation, and that’s absolutely valid. Has nothing to do with the person being privileged or not, it has to do with their intent.
Where do you draw the line? Is only the most miserable person in the world allowed to complain? The bottom 10%? How do you compare someone who was piss poor but loved to someone who was rich but beaten?
Either way I think complaining about the past is a curse you put on yourself and any poor soul that you force to listen. You can tell your story, everyone has one, but complaining should be saved for something that can change in the future.
Depends on context a bit … abuse? Of course. “I don’t like the color Porsche daddy gave me” of course not.
If they’re complaining they couldn’t get their monthly yacht then yes they still do have the right to. I also have the right to tell them to shove it all the way up their ass in that scenario.
However, not being able to relate to a complaint doesn’t invalidate it. Women complain about period pains, I don’t have those parts and hence can’t relate, but I’ll absolutely validate the complaint if asked to.
100% of course, but I still won’t care
Freedom of speech?
