"Denied" no, but "tried not to think about"? Oh yeah.
Weird story: I know someone whose friend didn't like thinking of vegetables as plants. No, really. Both botany students, and one of them didn't like looking at broccoli and finding pistils and stamens. Wanted vegetables to be things that come in plastic bags from your grocer's freezer, not things that grew out of the ground and used to be alive. I don't think anyone will disagree that this is a seriously unhealthy attitude.
Here's a good litmus test: what will you say if asked about it by a very small child? If you tell the truth, easily, without stammering or fidgeting or sidestepping ... and if you don't feel that you're somehow Destroying Innocence by doing it ... you're probably okay.
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Date: 2004-01-12 09:03 pm (UTC)Weird story: I know someone whose friend didn't like thinking of vegetables as plants. No, really. Both botany students, and one of them didn't like looking at broccoli and finding pistils and stamens. Wanted vegetables to be things that come in plastic bags from your grocer's freezer, not things that grew out of the ground and used to be alive.
I don't think anyone will disagree that this is a seriously unhealthy attitude.
Here's a good litmus test: what will you say if asked about it by a very small child? If you tell the truth, easily, without stammering or fidgeting or sidestepping ... and if you don't feel that you're somehow Destroying Innocence by doing it ... you're probably okay.
Otherwise: worry. A lot.