i really don't get the edgelord types who say stuff like 'love is nothing but a chemical reaction' as a way of trying to like, devalue love or dismiss its importance. like ok and ?
it's like this idea that intellectualizing and demystifying what's happening in our body somehow makes those processes less meaningful, as though they are opposites somehow. odd!
"pfft. love is just a chemical reaction normie. you're just chasing brain chemicals" — guy chasing the 'feeling superior online' brain chemicals
Idk man some of us have been deeply traumatised by love and don't see the point in romanticsing it I guess?? Like ok love is like. Cute and all, happy for you or whatever but let's not pretend it's as magical and unconditional as everyone likes to say it is 😒 but sure boil us down to an edgelord caricature if that makes the concept of ppl not liking the thing you do easier to process idk