macavitykitsune:

softtrade:

And not to sound too autonomist or second wave, but alienated emotional labor by women is an absolutely vital part of maintaining waged capitalist systems.

But the solution isn’t to make human relationships into a gig economy where yr husband is explicitly yr employer

Seriously. The solution to having a problem with capitalism relying on unpaid women’s (and children’s and and and) labour is not to try capitaling harder and more personally.

This is so obvious and yet when people talk about unpaid labor there’s this weird assumption that it’s the ‘unpaid’ part, not the ‘labor’ part that’s coercive.