The Washington Post recently
published an article by Petula Dvorak titled, “The anti-Valentine’s
Day movement is gaining strength.”
She
started: Let’s be honest. Valentine’s Day has
more potential to hurt, harm, terrorize and traumatize people than anything
Halloween serves up.
Huh?
But, apparently, I’m the fool. I
didn’t know that there was an “anti-Valentine’s Day” movement, let alone
that it is quickly gaining strength.
Dvorak obviously approves of the movement and cites allegedly
popular nail designs sporting phrases like “Ew, No” or “tiny middle
fingers” and hearts slashed by a “no” sign as symbols of the growing
resistance to a day celebrating love and commitment. Moreover, she notes that
Etsy “is a parade” of “aggressively anti-Valentine’s Day” merchandise,
including items with phrases such as, “Love
is in the air, try not to breathe” and “Fries before guys.”
Sweet.
Dvorak closes by noting that the push back to Valentine’s Day is
really “about choosing yourself.”
Lovely sentiment. We can all buy ourselves dinner and a show—and
bring ourselves a dozen roses and perhaps a box of chocolates. Maybe even pop
the question to ourselves before running off to Vegas to get hitched to
ourselves and embarking on a life of sologamy.
Well, you know, that’s what makes the world go ‘round. Right?
Valentine’s Day originated as a Christian feast (honoring a
martyr named Saint Valentine). Perhaps that is partly why some of a
“progressive” bent have come to disdain it. There are those who prefer to
observe a “National Day of Mourning” rather than Thanksgiving, many who abhor
Christmas. There are those who dismiss the Fourth of July and Memorial Day. The
majority of us now just view the latter two as a day off and an excuse to party
like it’s 1999. Leftists increasingly try to rebrand Mother’s Day and Father’s
Day as “Parent’s Day,” “Birthing People’s
Day,” or “Sperm Contributor’s Day.” As always, leftists want us to bastardize
our language, forget our past, dispense with our traditions, disengage with
God, and demean and demolish everything we once held dear.
What they
are really saying is how bitter, craven, intolerant, and small they are.
Maybe some
new additions to Sweetheart Candies would be in order to reflect their “values:”
*”Bleep
off!”
*“I ♥ chaos!”
*”I hate God!”
*”Love stinks!”
*”Screw You!”
*“I ♥ hate.”
*”Nothing matters”
*”We all suck”
*”Boys bite!”
*”Kill Cupid!”
Faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is
love?
Maybe not so much anymore if we allow these progressive ingrates
to get their way.
And that would be surpassingly sad.
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