meta post: emotional labour

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Where's My Cut: On Unpaid Emotional Labor

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And this was prompted by another friend's discussion about 'one-sided relationships in fandom', where a friend will happily inundate you with something ze loves (and you don't) for 3 hours, and then vanishes the instant you start talking about something you love and ze doesn't.

Yes, I've been there.

Emotional labour.

I don't get very meta on LJ anymore; my interests are primarily fannish. But this struck a chord for me in the situation I'm in right now, in the situations of my friends that I'm watching unfold before me.

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There's a person like that at work.