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Kudos to Marisa Thalberg for her thoughts on emotion and passion in the workplace [Art & Commerce, April 10].
Society seems to have taught us that strength and emotion are mutually exclusive, that emotion equals weakness. One need only look at a TV character like Ally McBeal to see the clear message that being emotional in the workplace is considered equivalent to being unstable.
Perhaps the corporate powers that be should concern themselves more with worker apathy than with criticizing someone who is passionate about what they do.
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