What’s even funnier is that people who do this are usually the “don’t applaud a fish for swimming” types.
Seriously, it’s a big red flag when someone complains about “emotional labour”
Its not when used in the correct ways.
That may be true.
but I have almost NEVER seen the term used in a “correct” way.
It’s just my experience, I know, but I’ve always seen the term used by sociopathic, compassionless, whiny fucks who can’t be bothered to put any effort into existing as a baseline decent human being but still apparently need to rationalize it so that the problem isn’t them, it’s everyone else.
I sincerely doubt there is a use for the phrase that isn’t attached to the concept that you should refuse to perform to the standards of human behavior without being paid first.
Emotional labor originally referred to the portion of a job that required regulating one’s emotions when dealing with customers and bosses, or heavily controlling emotional reactions.
For example, a doctor or nurse could be considered to be a job that requires heavy emotional labor as one would have to control their negative reactions to the ill people around them and avoid upsetting patients and their families anymore.
Anybody who worked heavily in customer service could also be said to have to perform a lot of emotional labor to avoid becoming angry or keep their customer calm.
That’s literally all it was originally. A term useful for describing jobs so that people would know what they were getting into, especially as jobs heavy in emotional labor could affect a person’s own mental wellbeing.
And then SJWs appropriated it to make themselves look like bigger victims?
Yep
Are you surprised? That’s the exact source of every buzzword they have.
Another example is the word “triggered”. A trigger, originally, was when someone with PTSD encountered something that suddenly and without warning caused them to experience and relive the events that caused the PTSD, such as a war veteran hearing a car backfire and suddenly they were back on the battlefield, or when a CSA hears someone use a phrase that was commonly used by their abuser.
These days, “trigger” is used to mean “Opinions, thoughts, or actions which I find problematic and distasteful, so I will misappropriate this word in order to stifle and silence those with whom I disagree.”
As someone who has had PTSD twice Tumblr’s bastardization of the word “triggered” really annoys me.
The first time it happened I was too young to remember, but the second time it happened I was 19 and it was not a good period of my life. You want to know what triggering looks like?
Night terrors so bad you wake up at 3 am screaming, and nightmares of the event that leave you physically numb and suffocated when you wake up
Going into “attack” mode when someone gets close to you or tries to touch you and being unable to explain why
Thinking that everyone who’s friendly to you is secretly an abusive manipulator
Seeing or hearing something that reminds you of the place where it happened and getting nausea and headaches
Having “Vietnam” modes where you’re unable to do anything and just black out to that event
Feeling like you lost your innocence overnight and like everyone around you is a bunch of children who haven’t seen how cruel the world is yet
Feeling like you have to carry what happened to you to the grave and that you have to ride the storm all by yourself because nobody can help you
Unable to feel pretty much ANY emotion, positive or negative, and basically wanting to smash your brain like people used to smash a blurry TV screen
Like seriously? You’re going to compare seeing a contrasting opinion to all this? You’re the ableist ones here.
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