posted on November 10, 2019 08:03 PM by
u/starm4nn
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u/AlexCoventry19 pointsat 1573437149.000000
I feel like I read a different article than you did. This seems to be
a plea to respect the labor of motherhood. Not sneerworthy, in my
book.
What Luisa allowed me to achieve in just a few short months got me
thinking about whether certain male lawyers had the edge over someone
like me simply because they had wives holding down the domestic front.
Perhaps the extra time and brain space that I just discovered was
something they had all along.
Having that freedom no doubt enabled them to become laser-focused at
work. They could avoid getting sidetracked with kid driving, feeding,
clothing, and other time-sapping chores. They could work longer hours.
And as a result, maybe, just maybe, they could advance more quickly than
their female counterparts with families.
It's sort of tangential to the point the OP was making here, but there's still something to be said about the implicit belief here that the (partially emotional) labor of motherhood seems to only have value inasmuch as it advances the careers of their partners.
Can somebody point me to when and where online-educated people
decided to use the term emotional labor for things which are clearly not
emotional labor?
Emotional labor is, prototypically, a service worker smiling while
serving drinks. It’s certainly not coextensional with domestic
labor.
My apologies. I originally read the article as being someone talking about discovering emotional labor as if they were a genius for discovering something women have known about for a while. Others here said that's a bad reading. When they explained it, I reread the article and realized that it was more trying to explain the concept to the type of people who read Medium.
I would think that someone on Medium acting like they're a genius for discovering something simple (as I had originally read it) is pretty sneerworthy, considering the type of people to read Medium.
I feel like I read a different article than you did. This seems to be a plea to respect the labor of motherhood. Not sneerworthy, in my book.
To be fair, talking about as if it were some sort
of lifehack that you’re a genius for ‘discovering’ is pretty much the
entire rationalist shtick.
what? this article is good
Can somebody point me to when and where online-educated people decided to use the term emotional labor for things which are clearly not emotional labor?
Emotional labor is, prototypically, a service worker smiling while serving drinks. It’s certainly not coextensional with domestic labor.
Wait the OP is a woman, which makes things even more perplexing.