Nobody disputes, that if they ship you off to 'Nam, and your body gears up into crazy levels of fight-or-flight, then when you get back you might just have a severe reaction whenever the fireworks go off on the Fourth of July.
Nobody disputes, that if you give birth to a child -- your child -- then you will be overcome with love, with emotion, with levels of oxytocin you have never experienced before in your life. Nobody disputes either that this is real, or that negative hangover effects like postpartum depression are also possible and serious.
I'm not saying this to be a prude. In fact, I think there's something bizarrely sterile and sexless about many things in our society.
But still, I think it is a mistake to trivialize things that are not trivial.
Nobody disputes, that if you give birth to a child -- your child -- then you will be overcome with love, with emotion, with levels of oxytocin you have never experienced before in your life. Nobody disputes either that this is real, or that negative hangover effects like postpartum depression are also possible and serious.
I'm not saying this to be a prude. In fact, I think there's something bizarrely sterile and sexless about many things in our society.
But still, I think it is a mistake to trivialize things that are not trivial.