When somebody experiencing a severe problem gives it a name and speaks out about it, if that name catches on, it will ALWAYS be diluted in popular use by people who experience less severe analogues of the problem.
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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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