bah, humbug

[freckles_and_doubt]

Ah, yes. LJ's toolbar is all over pink and hearts, and the price of roses has gone into orbit around what used to be Pluto. Mental torment! I can't work out if I loathe the merry commercial festival of Wellington's Day more or less than I loathe the merry commercial festival of Christmas.

Fortunately, help is at hand for the terminally romance-challenged. Anti-Valentines! Since her site allows you to send them, I'm hoping it falls under Fair Valentine's Use to blog a select few as a valentine to you witterers. They include useful sentiments such as



and

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I like the site particularly because (a) it's rude, and (b) it explicitly objects both to the commercialisation of romance, and to the ingrained cultural assumption which constructs coupledom as the norm and singletude as some kind of failure. To which I say Tchah!, and also:

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Comments

[ex-wytchfyn.livejournal.com]

VD is directed at singles as much as couples? This rather cries out for some empirics, I feel. All - and I mean all - the ads I see, from romantic weekend getaways to places which allow you to have your pubic hair waxed into the shape of a heart, are aimed at people with an existing "loved one."

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

:D goodness me, what an alarming idea.
Yes, you're right, all the romantic stuff like holidays and meals and stuff. I'm just hazily remembering the whole school thing of people giving one another Valentine's cards as a way of being noticed, people *not* in couples, but wanting to be. Perhaps it's just a teenage thing, and doesn't extend beyond school. I certainly don't recall that side of things affecting me as a single adult.

And, um, sorry about the italics, I suppose I must have tried to italicise the "you" and didn't end it properly. Silly me.