A MetaTalk thread reminded me that I never posted a link to this excellent MetaFilter thread from July 2015 on emotional labor:
“Where’s My Cut?“ : On Unpaid Emotional Labor. (July 15, 2015)
“Housework is not work. Sex work is not work. Emotional work is not work. Why? Because they don’t take effort? No, because women are supposed to provide them uncompensated, out of the goodness of our hearts.“
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It took me the better part of two weeks to read that thread and some of the AskMetaFilter and Metatalk threads it spawned (selection, in chronological order), plus more time when later threads were posted:
- MetaTalk: Emotional [Labor] Rescue (July 17, 2015)
- Ask MetaFilter: Emotional Labor Checklist/Self-Assessment (July 20, 2015)
- Ask MetaFilter: Should I Just Go Straight to Crone Island? (July 21, 2015)
- Ask MetaFilter: How do I bring up emotional labor in my relationship? (July 29, 2015)
- MetaTalk: MetaFilter Podcast: Episode 107: Breakin’ the Dowels with ColdChef (mp3, transcript) (August 3, 2015)
- MetaTalk: Out of the Blue Podcast by cortex: Out of the Blue, episode #2: On emotional labor, with Jess Zimmerman, author of the original piece that started the whole subject on MetaFilter (mp3) (September 15, 2015)
- MetaTalk: Emotional Labor Article in The Guardian: ‘Women are just better at this stuff’: is emotional labor feminism’s next frontier? (November 9, 2015)
- MetaTalk: The Annotated Emotional Labor Post! (Link to PDF removed because there are copyright issues.) (January 7, 2016)