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"Emotional Labor" losing the work context meets this imo. Definitely very frustrating.
Ya people complaining that being a decent friend and listening to other people vent sometimes is too much “emotional labor” is some kind of expression of some terrible process of neoliberalism and atomization
This one kills me, when I read the original definition and realized that people were studying the forced emotions required of customer service workers it felt good, like, almost relieving, that an academic, someone in a position of authority, recognized and took seriously the toll that that takes.
Now it means like, listening to your friend complain about their boss or something?
I'm not even upset that "the strain of hearing about other people's hardships" has a term to describe it, but why use one that was describing the way servers, baristas, flight attendants, cashiers and call center agents have to maintain a constant appearance of happiness while being degraded by the people speaking to them?
Yeah, it also sucks because if you try to explain that "emotional labor" has a specific meaning it makes you the bad guy for invalidating someone.
People also use it as a defense from having to do self-crit.