Exhibit A: When my brother was watching this NBA game with some old team, he was pissed that his preferred team wasn't making the "right moves", the right offense, defense, whatever. I told him he was whining but noooooo. He was complaining.

Exhibit B: My dad was watching a replay of Charmed with me when he started pointing out that the show is complete crap. That the story line is weak, the characters weren't very inetersting. He said that he couldn't understand why I was watching that instead of watching some old show he likes. But he wasn't whining. he was criticizing.

Verdict: Boys and girls aren't that different after all. No matter what we call it (whining, complaining, criticizing, whatever!), we still get affected by seemingly shallow shows. At least thats one thing we have the same thing in common.