Posted on 07/23/2015 9:56:48 AM PDT by rightistight
Jess Zimmerman, who writes for the Guardian, has a brilliant idea: why don't people pay her for being their friend? In an article titled, "“Where’s My Cut?”: On Unpaid Emotional Labor," Zimmerman makes the case that she deserves cold hard cash for being there for people.
Zimmerman begins her article by summarizing a recent case of a psychic swindling a man out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by telling him she could make a woman fall in love with him. The psychic wasn't completely at fault, Zimmerman writes, because men treat women like property and the hopelessly in love man should have realized that. And women never chase after men who aren't interested, she implies.
Eventually, Zimmerman writes that she helps men with their problems sometimes. "Why not get a Rolex out of the deal?" she then asks.
"People are disturbed by the very notion that someone would charge, or pay, for friendly support," she writes. "It’s supposed to come free. Why?"
Zimmerman then starts to talk about #GiveYourMoneytoWomen, which demanded that men give money to women for free. "Men like to act as if commanding women’s attention is their birthright, their natural due, and they are rarely contradicted," she writes, as if men don't ask other men questions. "It’s a radical act to refuse them that attention. It’s even more radical to propose that if they want it so [expletive] much, they can buy it."
The concept of "emotional labor" is the problem, according to Zimmerman. "We are told frequently that women are more intuitive, more empathetic, more innately willing and able to offer succor and advice," she explains. "How convenient that this cultural construct gives men an excuse to be emotionally lazy. How convenient that it casts feelings-based work as “an internal need, an aspiration, supposedly coming from the depths of our female character.”"
House work, sex work, and being a friend is all very similar, Zimmerman argues, saying, "Housework is not work. Sex work is not work. Emotional work is not work. Why? Because they don’t take effort? No, because women are supposed to provide them uncompensated, out of the goodness of our hearts."
And why do women not charge men for being their friend? The Patriarchy; Zimmerman writes, "We let this happen because patriarchy is so good at training women as its proxies; we’ve internalized the idea that our effort is men’s birthright.
"Enough of that. We don’t necessarily need to insist that men just give us their money – though you should, if that works for you, and write down what they say because I bet it’ll be funny. But we absolutely get to recognize that the constant labor of placating men and navigating patriarchal expectations is exhausting because it’s work."
Zimmerman concludes, "I don’t expect to get $700,000, now that I’m trying to remember that emotional labor has value. I don’t expect to get anything, really. But at least now I know that when I get nothing, I’m being cheated. That’s a start."
Just like sex, friendship is supposed to be an exchange based on mutual benefit.
Of course the feminists refuse to accept that mutual basis of sex, since they constantly treat men as if our sexuality has no value, so why should we be surprised that they refuse to acknowledge the mutual nature of friendship?
LMAO!!
Can she pay me for the time I just wasted reading her stupid idea?
Definitely a product of feminist socialist higher education.
Can I get some money for being turned down by so many girls/women throughout my life? My lawsuit would claim, "emotional distress to self-esteem". Got lawyer?
This has got to be an Onion article.
Perfect!
Her pic goes up right next to Hillary, Helen Thomas in my bottle of virtual ipecac “swallowed poison need to vomit” medicine cabinet
"You knew I looked like this."
AIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Meh...lipstick, pig...
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Tiny Tim's love child?
This woman is pathetic!
Okay, I’ll bite. Does one’s life’s endeavor and true calling demand he/she be paid for it?
In my cynicism, I can’t help but think this is just another schtick article that she had to write the night before her deadline. I doubt she does much else than spew her brain’s contents for a living.
We have a name for that................
Now That does explain why liberals think that they are actually "doing something" when they feel good or bad about stuff.
Why oh why did I look her up? Eww.
"And what did you learn, little boy?" you might well ask.
I learned that there are a few very attractive women with the name "Jess" or "Jessica" Zimmerman.
I also learned that the one that works for The Guardian sure aint one of them.
In fact, it appears that she's tried to make herself ugly on purpose.
LOL!
-PJ
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