I am really surprised to hear this feedback on this particular post, because I do raise the issues of exploitation and affective labor and systemic inequalities, so I am not sure what I am missing here. The framing that many educators approach teaching as a vocation, approach it with care, is not new or odd. Some people are like this. Including Nel Noddings and bell hooks and many ppl I know. That’s why we recognize it is NOT the same ethos of the institution. That’s why it is political resistance. As a woman and mother, I have to parent within systemic gender inequality. I am not going to love my child less because the system is unfair to ME.