Out of the Blue: Stories from MetaFilter

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Out of the Blue, episode #2: On emotional labor, with Jess Zimmerman

September 15, 2015 • 13 mins

On July 13th, the writer Jess Zimmerman posted "Where's My Cut?": On Unpaid Emotional Labor on The Toast, an essay about how and why emotional work is often undervalued and treated as "women's work". Or, more to the point, not even work: just something women are inherently supposed to do. It's a good piece, and what it spawned was even more interesting: a huge, revelatory MetaFilter thread in which site members, women in particul...

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Out of the Blue, episode #1: The Snail That Wouldn't Die

July 21, 2015 • 12 mins

In 1846, a dead snail was glued to a specimen card in the British Museum. In 1850, somebody realized that the snail...wasn't so dead after all, kicking off a curious story of molluskular stoicism that charmed the mid 19th C. science-and-nature circuit. But what went on in the ensuing 150 years? Site user "nicebookrack" wanted to know, and posted question to Ask MetaFilter asking, well, whatever happened to the snail that wouldn't ...

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Out of the Blue: Stories from MetaFilter

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Out of the Blue, episode #2: On emotional labor, with Jess Zimmerman

Out of the Blue, episode #1: The Snail That Wouldn't Die