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Smiling is slavery! by Washington Post 03/11/2017, 9:31am PST
You couldn't write a more ridiculous parody

Some Women are Striking from Smiling Today

While not every one plans to skip work, many who want to show solidarity with the growing feminist movement said they plan to strike from unpaid work that women disproportionately do, including cooking, cleaning and, some said, smiling.

More specifically, fake smiling.

Some feminists say the happy face they sport by habit — or on command — is a form of unpaid “emotional labor.” They do it to be pleasant, to be likable, or because someone told them to do it: “Why don’t you smile!”

“Stop telling women to smile” has become a rallying point for feminists who say that men who cajole or prompt women to smile in public are asserting control.

Debjani Roy, deputy director for Hollaback!, an anti-harassment group in New York, said it’s an early, and persistent form of street harassment. “A complete stranger making a demand of you in a public space is something you do not need to fulfill,” she said.

Women have to be careful, though, she said. What may first seem a light-hearted request can escalate if a woman does not comply. (literally rape!)

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, a Brooklyn-based painter launched a “Stop Telling Women to Smile” art series and campaign. She creates posters of unsmiling women with captions such as “I am not your property” and “Women are not outside for your entertainment.”

In general women are expected to be more agreeable and happy, sociologists say, whether at work providing service with a smile, or when keeping an emotional keel at home and in their personal lives.

Sociologist Arlie Hochschild coined the term “emotional labor” in 1983, as she described the emotional effort required in female-dominated professions, such as flight attendants, food service workers, and child care workers.

Broadly, emotional labor involves setting aside one’s own feelings in service to someone else, whether an irate customer or a melting down toddler. It involves anticipating needs, paying attention to the comfort level of others, and often doing tedious things — planning meals, remembering birthdays — that keep things going smoothly and make people happy.

It’s often unnoticed and under-valued. The term has gained new currency as low-paying service sector jobs are commanding a larger share of the economy.

When men do emotional labor, they can get praised and promoted for it, said Michelle Rodino-Colocino, an associate professor of gender and media studies at Pennsylvania Sate University and an organizer of the International Women’s Strike. For women, it’s seen as innate, and therefore not treated as a skill, she said.


Your 2nd assignment, after trying to write a more ridiculous parody, is to imagine a name unsexier than Arliee Hochschild.



Of course she was a sociology (associate) professor at Berkely. For anyone not familiar with university titles, "emeritus" is the academia equivalent of the guy who keeps hanging around the high school parking lot years after graduation.


What are the odds that a single one of the quoted individuals in this article doesn't have dark rimmed puritan glasses, the mark of the joyless, and capotain hat of the 21st century?

Debjany Roy



"Michael Alison Chandler writes about families, gender and religion."


Tatyana Fazlalizadeh


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