1 post tagged “valentine's day”

"Happy V.D!"
"Venereal disease...?"
"Nooo! Valentines Day!"
"Oh... well, they're related."

On facebook I recently received an invitation to join the "revolution" of wearing black on Valentines Day as a form of protest against a Capitalistic holiday that has nothing to do with Saint Valentine, the martyr.

This annoyed me greatly. I'm sure it was mostly high school students, but all the same, I saw too many facebook statuses complaining about the holiday for it to totally recede from my mind. Yes, it is an annoying holiday; full of pink and squealing girls. Yes, it is Capitalistic and has nothing to do with Saint Valentine. However, I pose the question: Has it -ever- really been about the Saint Valentine (any of them)?

What would these people propose we do? Sit around and meditate on the sacrifice of some distant martyr who died 1500 years ago? The holiday, like any thing else, is more about our relations to the thing it celebrates, and the ideals the thing embodies, than the actual thing. And ultimately, I think that is much more interesting.

Not to mention, most of the people complaining about the holiday are only doing so because they are jealous they don't have someone to spend it with. That is easy enough to see through.

As for it being Capitalistic... it's America. Enough said.