I would like to point out that this is the only comment in the thread that doesn't assume that this behavior is culturally invariant, and suggest that the rest of LW think about that for a while.
I think the term "oppression olympics" is needlessly charged.
But it is a good question: Under what conditions will someone voice a complaint, and about what?
We learn early on that voicing certain complaints results in social punishment, even when those complaints are "valid" according to the stated moral aspirations of the community. If memory holds, the process of learning which complaints can be voiced is painful.
But at the same time, not all superficially negative self-disclosures are a true social loss: Signaling affliction seems...
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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