Meet the most vitriolic Valentine’s Day haters around the world
If you are single and bummed out over being single on Valentine’s Day, I’ll share one thing with you that makes it easier.
In my family, Valentine’s was never presented as a “romantic” holiday. My mother used to give me candy in a heart shaped box on Valentine’s when I was a kid, I usually got a card from her, and my father sometimes gave me cards.
Over the years, I’ve sent Valentine’s Day cards to an Aunt of mine (she lives alone), my sister, and I’ve bought flowers for friends. In college, a platonic buddy of mine gave me red roses and a Valentine’s Day card.
Valentine’s Day does NOT have to be about erotic or romantic love, I don’t care WHAT Hallmark cards say.
If you view February 14th as a day to express your fondness of, or non-romantic love for, friends, co-workers, and family, it’s not so bad. I actually kind of like Valentine’s Day. It’s a sweet little holiday without the stress of major ones, like Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Ironically, the only aspect of Valentine’s I’ve hated in the past was the insistence of OTHERS to hype it into a romantic holiday.
I remember in high school, I never got any flowers from guys. I always felt bad when the schools I went to had a flower drive, and in every class, at least one girl would get dozens of them (presumably from male admirers), which made you feel terrible if you got zero.
All the commercials showing a husband buying his wife a diamond pendant for Valentine’s Day and that sort of advertising – that is what rubs me the wrong way.
I wasn’t really planning on doing a Valentine’s Day post this year, as I’ve done the last couple of years. But I saw this:
(Link): Meet the most vitriolic Valentine’s Day haters around the world
Excerpt:
Tongue-in-cheek “Anti-Valentine’s Day” parties are de rigueur in cities from (Link): Los Angeles to (Link): Singapore these days. But in some other parts of the world, opposition toward the holiday runs much deeper and is tangled up in politics, religion, and national identity.
Japan
A Marxist group called Kakumei-teki himote doumei (“Revolutionary Alliance of Men That Woman Are Not Attracted To”) is calling on supporters to march against the holiday in Tokyo’s Shibuya district.
The group, founded in 2006 by a man named Katsuhiro Furusawa after he was dumped by his girlfriend (Link): states on its website: “The blood-soaked conspiracy of Valentine’s Day, driven by the oppressive chocolate capitalists, has arrived once again. In order to create a brighter future, we call for solidarity among our unloved comrades, so that we may demonstrate in resolute opposition to Valentine’s Day and the romantic industrial complex.”
India
Hindu Mahasabha, a Hindu nationalist group, has vowed to force impromptu weddings on unmarried couples that publicly display affection for each other on Feb. 14. The group’s goal is to educate the public “about what true love is and that a western festival should not be celebrated in the country, ” Chandra Prakash Kaushik, president of Hindu Mahasabha (Link): told the Times of India. “Display of love in the entire Valentine’s week is equivalent to not following Indian traditions. Anyone found displaying love on Facebook, Twitter or WhatsApp will be caught hold of,” he said. The group is dispatching teams to monitor social media as well as to patrol parks and shopping malls for unwed sweethearts.
…Saudi Arabia
Religious police patrol stores warning shop owners not to sell chocolates, red roses, or anything that would support the celebration of the (Link): “infidel celebration.” Last year, five men were sentenced to prison and public lashings for holding a Valentine’s Day party with women.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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