
Rise up fellow complainers, let’s be vulnerable together
Complaining can be socially beneficial, even morally generous. The skill is to use it to build relationships of trust
by Kathryn J Norlock
Kathryn J Norlock is a professor of philosophy at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, and the Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics, as well as affiliated faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies. She is the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, and her books include Forgiveness from a Feminist Perspective (2nd ed, 2018) and the edited collection The Moral Psychology of Forgiveness (2017).