The MeFi Emotional Labour Thread

"You know how men talk about PMS as this miserable, barely survivable time when you have to watch what you say, be careful not to make too much noise, swallow your real thoughts, make constant concessions to avoid conflict, and accept sudden outbursts of anger as commonplace? (aka things I unconsciously do around many men I know and love)

The masculine dread of PMS is basically “there are five days a month when the burden of emotional labor is reversed, and that brief (and incomplete) inversion is my personal eldritch horror, such that men discuss it with other men in hushed tones.”

-a fiendish thingy" on "Where's My Cut?" On Unpaid Emotional Labor (way the fuck down)

*just... marvels at that one for a minute*

I'm not processing Bowie's death very well.

...yeah.

Pretty much what it says on the tin.

stars are never sleeping
dead ones and the living

their jealousy's spilling down
the stars must stick together
we will never be rid of these stars
but I hope they live forever