blackamydunne:

taylor-ruth:

it doesn’t sit well with me that “emotional labor” in it’s original context was Arlie Hochschild talking very specifically about how taxing face to face service industry jobs are for people (namely women) with this very nuanced context and is now used in everything from “i had to explain something to someone on twitter” or heavily in contexts of romantic relationships. not all emotional management and exchange is labor! to insert the idea of “labor” excessively into interpersonal relationships creates a system of “i performed ____ and now you OWE me for exerting ____” and it’s not healthy or what the term is for.

“i had to explain something to someone on twitter” sounds a whole lot like black and brown people (usually women) asking white people not to take for granted the Emotional Labor it takes to have to daily explain complexities of racism and racialized misogyny to people who either don’t care or aren’t willing to look it up themselves.

but sure 🙂 words never evolve.