24 July 2015  Working Hard For The Money  While I am sure
everyone has seen the amazing article on emotional labour by
Jess Zimmerman, if not, please go check it out. Finally someone
has perfectly articulated that weird feeling of "being cheated"
by my otherwise lovely, and highly privileged, life. It is not
that what I do is physically taxing, or requires a ton of higher
order thinking (honestly, I could be replaced by a well-trained
labrador retriever in that sense), but in that is requires me to
provide this emotional labor all day, every day, for everyone in
this house, all the time, forever and ever. While Chris and I
have had some really beneficial discussions about this dynamic,
and we are moving towards a much better balance of providing
this resource, this is exactly how one winds up screaming at
their partner about measuring cups, for no reason at ALL!   I
also highly recommend reading the MetaFilter discussion that the
article generated. It is long, but worth a read, or at least a
hearty skim. Once