engineer-pearl0:

oiltipped:

20 year olds calling it “the expectation of emotional labour” when a 14 year old who looks up to them tentatively asks them a question instead of finding out the answer by diligently reading an academic paper by an activist a 14 year old wouldn’t otherwise have heard of yet. 

or would have had sufficient context or exposure to the style to understand

Look I know there are some cases where people are just being jerks and expecting you to do the work for them, but there are also cases where you are their access point and they don’t have the history necessary to make it on their own.

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