Valentine's Day, Shmalentines Day
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Plus, I find the pink and red decorations used for this holiday rather garish. Though I suppose all the blood and guts coloration is appropriate since VD was originally the celebration of martyrdom. (Super romantic, right?)
Anyway, for me, Valentine's Day just means the day that happens to be my mom's birthday. Well, now it also means my roommate's birthday. What're the odds of that, huh?
But seriously, folks, what's your take on VD - pointless ritualization of gift-giving and sexual reciprocity or some sort of heart-warming day for lovers? Or something else....
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You know May I have to agree with you.
I for one think you show your mate love every day of the year not just one.
Any more Valentines Day is just for the retailers and food establishments. I mean it's jobs and money for the working class but thats about all it's for.
I'm neither passionately for nor passionately against Valentine's Day. But I have two great memories from Valentine's Days past that I'll share. One is that a broadcast network -- I think Fox, because it came in all fuzzy over the antenna -- aired the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie on one Valentine's Day when I was young. The other memory is that some network (I'm thinking Fox again) aired Bram Stoker's Dracula on Valentine's Day. (I'm not sure if both movies were aired on the same year. It seems like, including commercials, there wouldn't have been enough time for both in one night; so maybe these were two consecutive Valentine's Days.)
Neither are great movies, but they're both pretty good (Buffy being better than expected - this was before the Buffy series began). But now that I'm older, I realize that what my younger self was appreciating even more than the movies themselves was the thoughtfulness that some network programmer put into booking those movies for Valentine's Day. They fit the bill of "love story," but put a slightly challenging bent to the concept. After all, my 13-year-old self wouldn't have tuned in for some watered-down Julia Roberts romcom. Someone at the network was reaching out to me, and they got me.
AND, I remember eating Little Debbie heart-shaped, cream-filled cakes while watching one or both of these movies. Those cakes are the best! Even though they use the exact same ingredients as Ho-Ho's, there's something about the cream:chocolate:cake ratio that makes them superior.
So if Valentine's Day inspires clever broadcast programming and superior junk food, I can hardly be expected to come out against it.
(And let's not forget the classic Simpsons episode - "I choo-choo-choose you!")
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