"Rape culture" originally referred to prisons where rape was rampant. "Emotional labor" originally referred to the exhausting performance of happiness required of service workers. "Trigger" originally referred to stimuli that prompt PTSD flashbacks.
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Moreover, it's human bias (and media bias) to pay more attention to the privileged/fortunate than to people with really hard lives. So we amplify the voices of people with mild over severe problems.
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Another media bias is towards more discussion of controversial cases. So you'll hear more about cases of e.g. sexual harassment that sound overblown or dubious than about cases that are obviously horrible and sad.
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This is not to say that nobody should ever complain about minor things or that minor problems aren't real. But there are systematic biases leading us to *hear less from* people who go through extremely bad stuff, and assume the *typical* complainer has only mild problems.
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