Someone Told the Trads About the Mental Load

Talking about your husband as an achievement robs everyone of autonomy

Sometime in the last 10 years, the term “mental load” entered the Instagram Mom pop psychology canon. Coined by sociologist Arie Hochschild in her 1983 book The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Emotion in Modern Times, it refers to the invisible and disproportionate mental energy women in hetero partnerships often spend on household management,…