"For women, patriarchy conflates emotional labor with a false sense of ethics. It's this false ethics that causes us to perpetuate our own internalized oppression. We are taught in various ways that emotional labor is an innate skill of women and if we don't do it, the implication is that we're not a 'good person' or a 'proper woman.' This leads us to feeling suspicious of ourselves if we feel fed up with it. There is a tendency to feel shame when we approach our thresholds for carrying the emotional weight for others.
You're not being a 'bad person' when you refuse to carry the emotional weight for others."
~ http://www.womboflight.com/women-and-emotional-labor-putting-down-the-weight/
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