Caring for your infant can be magical and mind-expanding, but it’s labour too. We all need respite from the rat race, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
    1520·
    2 months ago

    If I take a sabbatical from my career and go work for a charity, I’m still taking a year off from my original job. What you do with the time is irrelevant to the language used.

    Should people get parental leave? … absolutely. Is it “time off” from your job? … Yes. Are they taking a holiday? … No.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      208·
      2 months ago

      It might be a time off from employment but it’s not time off. It’s not a fucking holiday.

      • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
        95·
        2 months ago

        That’s what they said… It’s semantics. People associating “time off” with holiday for no reason when they don’t mean the same thing.