"Emotional labor" is a latest trend and it's going to be around for a moment. For the next few months, it'll be overused more and more frequently to describe an ever-growing set of things. Given some time, I'll probably start mentally filtering any comment containing the term.

See also: 'virtue signaling'.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=emotional%20labor...

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