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Wed | February 15, 2006

valentine's day

Valentine's Day is not my favorite holiday. It has a lot of potential, but it never lives up to it. I feel like it's the only holiday that actively makes people miserable. It captures the imagination, which is bad, because the stuff you imagine is not as nice as the real. It is a nice holiday in theory, but in practice, it's awful. It's a miserable, awful, holiday. And you can't really participate in it unless you're dating someone or have a boyfriend. Even then chances are you will be at least a little disappointed. Christmas, I can benefit from the sales, and the decorations are pretty. I can be a little happy even though it is this behemoth of a holiday which actually has very little to do with me and represents all these hegemonic ideologies (christianity, CAPITALISM, consumerism)-- ideologies which are at root responsible for a lot of my general, daily, miserable existence. Valentine's day represents nice things (love, connection, affection) and yet it just doesn't work.

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