February 14, 2007

Valentine's Day

I'm not a fan of this mostly useless holiday. Falling about halfway between winter solstice and spring, I'm suspicious of some pagan origins here, but the relentless commercialism of the day makes me gag. According to the commercials, we're supposed to judge our love for our partner by the size (and price) of the various colored rocks we buy them (or the flowers, or the candy...etc.). Moreover, those without a partner are left to feel like second class citizens (that's always annoyed me: I've been single for extended periods of time, and have been perfectly happy).

I think I'm most annoyed by the idea that one is supposed to celebrate the committment to one's partner on this day in some special way. This seems to imply (at least to me) some sort of license to treat people less well the other 364 days of the year, reserving Valentine's Day as a day to make it all up. This violates my sense of how a partnership is supposed to work; hence, my antipathy for this day.

In sum, fuck Hallmark and Whitmans (who's candy is almost inedible).

Now I'm off to attempt to play armand's game. His post is better than this one, anyway. Posted by baltar at February 14, 2007 07:08 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Corporate Bullshit | Culture | Petty Rants


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Falling about halfway between winter solstice and spring, I'm suspicious of some pagan origins here,

Google "Lupercalia".

Posted by: jacflash at February 14, 2007 09:48 PM | PERMALINK
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