honestly not sure that labeling any kind of decent human behavior towards another person as "emotional labor" and demanding compensation for it is gonna result in an overall improvement in social relations, folks
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excessively simplified explanation: people pushing this narrative are mostly demanding increased status for something they imagine they do disproportionately and see paid compensation as the only credible means of raising status?
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oh boy they should also consider the emotional labor that comes into play in corporate work
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and academic work! my God some of the students probably the same students most strident about emotional labor if I were to guess
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tbh i do feel like 'emotional labor' is descriptive of certain kinds of relationship maintenance, mostly to do with remembering & paying attention to events and commitments (which people mainly do via anxiety!) that's largely gendered & becomes overwhelmingly in particular cases
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