About Valentine's Day

[nakednatalie]

About Valentine's Day
Sure, I enjoy it. I like passing out grade school-style valentines and conversation hearts to my adult friends. But I also think it's a holiday of immeasurably stupid proportions. No, I'm not saying this out of bitterness or because of some bad memory from Valentine's days past. To the contrary, I've always had fairly decent

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[bernmarx]

Yeah, sure the idea of a Day of Love sounds great, doesn't it? Everybody being nice to each other and sharing their innermost feelings of respect and/or adoration.

The thing is, someone TRIED to create that holiday, and it just became Valentine's Day II.

(Personally, I like the dopey little tchotchkes, but whatev.)

[nakednatalie]

Oh, I'm not above tchotchkes, by any stretch of the imagination. But Valentines tchotchkes just seem to be particularly cheap and ass-ugly.

[robinskij]

They are.

...though there are some pretty ugly tchotchkes for Halloween...and Thanksgiving...even Christmas...

UGH. I hate ugly tchotchkes!

[nakednatalie]

Unless they're SOOOOO ugly that they become hilarious.

[bluestarliz]

Well put!

I'm not a big V-day person...no bitterness. I've had some good ones, getting drunk on champagne, or back in high school, driving around in an old truck with my sweetie eating fun sized Snickers. But I hate the expectation and the waiting to eat out in a restaurant filled to the brim.

Especially after hearing a coworker fret about what to give her husband, I like we all just need to give our SO's head. Everybody, blow each other! Oral sex is cheaper than a dozen roses, (hopefully) not treated with pesticides (thanks NPR for your pesticide rose story), it's not fattening, and it won't make the girl in the cube next to you sneeze (again, very much hopefully!).

Haha, I ate chocolate for breakfast and I seem to be in a bit of a mood.

Also, did you see the tiny play-doh valentines at Target? SO CUTE!!!

[nakednatalie]

Uh, NO! I did NOT see Play-doh valentines!!!!!!! How could I have missed them???!!

I can't believe all the expensive stuff people are buying for this holiday! We JUST had Christmas. We don't need more junk!

[thetar]

hahaha and oral sex is pretty easy to!

[ihave_themoon]

i hate the stupid stuffed animals
i like cards, candy, flowers, jewelry, nice dinners out and sex

:)

[nakednatalie]

I guess everybody likes getting that stuff. I just feel protective of my friends who feel excluded. :o)

[ihave_themoon]

i dont feel excluded :)

[nakednatalie]

That's because you're NOT. :oD

[onyxblue1]

The greeting card and gift companies are figuring out that there's a large market out there of people who don't do Valentine's Day, whether because they're old married folks, single, or generally bitter about it, and they're working on cashing in on it. Here's an article about it.

Now, if that doesn't get your cynical side (I don't know about you, but all my sides are cynical) working, I don't know what will.

I just hate rank commercialism, whatever the occasion. My sisters-in-law send us Thanksgiving cards, St. Patrick's Day cards, Hallowe'en cards . . . since when are these card-giving (and even gift-giving) holidays, anyway? It's bloody ridiculous.

A friend of mine got really pissed off at her husband because one year he didn't get her an Easter basket. The year they started dating, he got her a huge one, with a gigantic stuffed bunny, and lots of stuff in it . . . then one year he didn't get her anything. She was honestly angry about it. I was flabbergasted. Easter is not exactly when I expect to get romantic gifts, you

[nakednatalie]

I'm completely cynical, but I'm also a five-year-old at heart and will take any excuse to partake of a fun holiday in childlike glee. Thus my predilection for school-style box-o'-valentines. The cynicism comes in with the refusal to play the grown-up jewelry-roses-candy game.

I don't blame the corporations for trying to increase their bottom line. But I DO blame the people who get sucked into the propaganda of it.

I can't believe the expensive crap people are expected to buy for this holiday. It's ridiculous! Joe and I have an understanding that V-Day gets largely ignored. I mean, we JUST came off of Christmas and a ton of birthdays and our anniversary is 8 days away. It's just too much.

As for Easter baskets... I make one for Joe EVERY year (a silly, childish one, of course)and leave it by his door Easter morning and he always forgets to make one for me. But I don't care (mostly) because the best part is the making of his.

[onyxblue1]

You know, if you're having fun with it, then you don't need any other excuse. I'm actually tempted to start giving the_original1 stuff for Guy Fawkes Day (remember, remember, the fifth of November).:-)

What gets me is the expectations that people have. Would Joe pitch a fit if he didn't get that basket?

I admit, I have been known to completely cave in to that five-year-old in my head, and I've made completely silly gifts, too. I don't do it regularly, but I do it. Don't tell anyone. It would ruin my hard-bitten image.

[nakednatalie]

Ok, I won't ruin your hard-ass image, but I may use it as a diversionary tactic for when you corner me with your logic. ;oP

Yes, the expectations are the whole problem! And the commercialization is driving the expectations WAY up. It's not just a cheap box of candy and a flower anymore. Now people expect diamond necklaces and Wii systems.

And, no, Joe wouldn't even NOTICE if he didn't get his easter basket. Heh.

Ooo, Guy Fawkes day presents! Now THAT's an idea! We've come up with our holidays like Elvismas and Coffeemas, but we never followed through with it.

[thetar]

rock on! thanks for the simpsons ref to...all hail love day! this has to be one of the cheesier days of the year.

i have hated this day since i was 12.

work was just a buzz today with the bullshit. some of the lame girls are all spouting off about how they better get tons of balloons and flowers. does this shit really get them in the mood to put out to the pathetic loosers that hang out with these idiots?

fuck! stop the merry-go-round, i want off.

[nakednatalie]

Seriously.

I love the childlike side of it. I hate the grown-up version.