The latest New York Times viral outrage story is a Catherine Pearson article looking at the trend of women who are "Weary of the Emotional Labor of 'Mankeeping'". Mankeeping, Pearson explains, is a term devised by Angelica Puzio Ferrara for "the work women do to meet the social and emotional needs of the men in their lives, from supporting their partners through daily challenges and inner turmoil, to encouraging them to meet up with their friends. "In its dissection of the issues, the article uses the modern meaning of "emotional labor", which involves tending to the emotional needs of someone you have a personal relationship with.
"In its dissection of the issues, the article uses the modern meaning of "emotional labor", which involves tending to the emotional needs of someone you have a personal relationship with. There's no divinely ordained need for particular phonemes to represent particular things.