Monday, August 06, 2007  The "Right" To Complain  At various
points throughout my blogging career, I've been chastised for
complaining (or, why not use the gender-specific term, bitching)
on this here blog. In fact, this isn't only specific to the
blogging - I've gotten similar reactions in other situations as
well. But I've been thinking about this a bit lately, and I want
to write about it.  Let's start with a basic premise: Every
single person has things in their life that make them irritated.
Things about which they would like to complain. Things about
which they do complain.  I would suspect that even Oprah
complains about work sometimes, or if not work then about her
family, or about her friends, or about whatever irritates her.
To complain is human, to write in gratitude journals divine, or
some such.  At any rate, however, there seem to be people in the
world who like to judge who has the right to complain - or
really, to speak at all - and who does not. My question is this:
at what point does one hav