How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality

Re:How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality by gkya on Thursday September 28, 2017 @04:04PM (#15360266)

If I couldn't get my point across, that's probably my bad; I wasn't implying your person with the pronoun you in that comment, I'm sorry. I was trying to talk about relationships in general. And I may have misunderstood you, I'm sorry about that too. But this is a discussion, not a contest of who's offended whom more, or of correctness.

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Re:How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality by Mz on Thursday September 28, 2017 @04:08PM (#15360296)

So, when you tell me to delete something because it offends you, that's fine. When I tell you that your remark was just as offensive to me, you add yet another criticism of me to your track record and act like I am behaving badly for mentioning that I am offended.

This is exactly why emotional labor is a popular catch phrase: Because women are expected to care deeply about how men feel and to twist themselves out of shape to cater to the feelings of men. But, how women feel is not supposed to matter.

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