Some people are so sloppy and careless with language that what they say ends up having zero meaning. Take, for instance, the currently faddy expression “emotional labor.” Here is somebody for whom clearing the table after a meal is suddenly “emotional labor.”
It’s as if the whole point of talking, for these people, were not to communicate any information or share ideas but to repeat a dumb cliché as many times as possible.
“Emotional labor”???
Why would anybody want to turn a one-syllable word — “stress” — into two separate words requiring six syllables to pronounce?
That’s unnecessary emotional labor!
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t’s as if the whole point of talking, for these people, were not to communicate any information or share ideas but to repeat a dumb cliché as many times as possible.
You sound like you’re describing extroverted political talking heads.
It doesn’t sound like she has a handle on what emotional labor is.
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Maybe the post is meant as a parody, who knows. Because according to its logic, sneezing can be classified as emotional labor.
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“Maybe the post is meant as a parody…”
How could it possibly be anything else? It’s too well-written to be sincere.
You want to read sincerely written absolute idiocy, click on a feminist website like Feministing.com.
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Let’s hope so! I don’t want to believe this was being written in earnest.
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Emotional labour? Giving birth, nothing else counts!
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