It’s Almost Valentine’s Day
12 February 2007There seems to be 3 camps when it comes to V-Day.
1. “OH MY GOD, I HAVE to get something over the top romantic from my significant other or that means s/he doesn’t love me.”
2. “Whatever! It’s just a day, here’s your card, chocolate and candy. I love you!”
3. “Greeting card propaganda. I hate it, I refuse to participate and I’m thinking of going postal on Cupid!”
There seems to be a growing trend of people going over to the “Postal on Cupid” side and websites have sprung up denouncing V-Day as being just short of evil.
There’s the AntiVDay forum with a membership of just over 2100 people. American Greetings has added Anti-Vvalentine’s Day cards to its line and Cafepress offers a line of Anti-Valentine’s Day T-shirts and gifts. There’s a blog with a list of Anti-Loves Songs, a blog with a How-to-AntiValentine video plus a whole host of other Anti sites.
Put “anti valentines” into Google and you get “Results 1 - 10 of about 1,660,000 for anti valentines”
Wile I’m not one of those over the top romantics, I do think that having 1 day to celebrate love is nice. The rest of the year we are inundated with war, crime, hate and general overall ickiness. One day to celebrate that people can come together, rejoice in their appreciation of each other and demonstrate it in sentimental way can’t be all bad.
Unless you’re single or your significant other is a card carrying member of the Death to Cupid club.
Take care
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