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Emotional labor is a useful idea, but far too narrowly and politically defined. Almost everybody has to do emotional labor to be effective.
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My understanding is that it's more about the amount of work, like how women are expected to help one another more than men are.
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Yes. Still a question of how much labor: Said exec can get away with such behavior more often than not. Frequency effect factors in.
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Example: Listener concentration takes a hit every time a speaker gets their pronoun incorrect; like surfing w/out a pop-up ad blocker.
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