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“Where’s My Cut?”: On Unpaid Emotional Labor
Jess Zimmerman, wryly, on the unpaid emotional labor she and other women perform for men, and why it has value.
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ELI5, please. From skimming it, it looks like just an extension of the laughable #GiveYourMoneyToWomen Twitter campaign. I'd have hoped this was satire or someone taking the piss out of it, but the folks in the comments seem to sincere in acceding to this.
It isn't satire, as far as I can tell. It seems that this person sort of agrees with the hashtag, at least in spirit, though know it doesn't make financial sense.
Markets will find a way.
Well damn.... people are a lot more creative than I am.
No clue. People deal with the emotional issues of other people all the time, from all sexes and races. Not sure why the author thinks that women should be paid for what everyone else does without needing a cookie for it.
Unfortunate. I don't much feel like giving money to entities that don't offer goods or services. Exception being charities, which I doubt women as a whole would enjoy being called charity cases since a great deal of them are able bodied, ready, and willing to work for their wages.
This whole thing just smacks of disingenuousness and greed.