ok, you know something?

[electricland]

I don't really have strong feelings about Valentine's Day one way or the other. (Somehow, I dodged the major childhood trauma that seems to be associated with it -- amazing, really, given how many other childhood traumas still rear their snakey little heads to hiss at me once in a while.) If you like to celebrate it, great. If you feel it's stupid to set aside one day of the year to buy overpriced flowers and chocolate and be Extra Specially In Love, I can totally see your point. Whether you're celebrating, or anti-celebrating, or ignoring the whole thing, good on ya.

What's starting to piss me off, though, is the cheerleading the media's doing on behalf of us single types. No man? No date? No-one to buy you shiny red things? Don't worry about it! You're not REALLY a freak! We will just continue to single you out (pun not intended, but it works well, eh?) by listing all kinds of things you can do tonight to salve the misery your worthless pathetic single soul must be feeling right now! Because obviously if you're too hopeless to be part of a couple, you're much too dim to think of any of these things on your own, and if we didn't step in you'd just be pulling a Bridget Jones this evening, sitting in your flannel and bunny slippers crying into your vodka.*

This rantlet brought to you by Sympatico and Lavalife.

Anyway, setting aside this moment of bitter, I love you all! I kiss you! I send warm feelings in your general direction! 365 days of the year!

*ETA that I'm such a bitter bitch sometimes. It does occur to me that perhaps they're just trying to be inclusive, and yet I feel patronized. Go figure...

Comments

[duir-id.livejournal.com]

Oh I was badly traumatised by this day when I was growing up. I was always the fat kid you see.... Smart, funny, wise beyond my years, but still the fat kid. Sure I had more female friends than male friends *still do* but none of them wanted to go out with me beacuse it was uncool to be seen with the fat kid. So this day was one day that I really hated as I knew I would never get anything from anyone....cuz no one loved me *bursts into tears*

*sniff*

[lietya.livejournal.com]

That, right there, is why I hate this holiday. Not just because I was that kid too, but because the last thing this country (assuming you're in the US) needs is another reason to traumatize people and make them feel inferior.

[duir-id.livejournal.com]

Oh I am in the US, but I'm not a US Citizen. This was back in England during the early 80's. Not a fun time to be young...

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

It wasn't too special a few years earlier, either. I was the class lit-geek; I had no friends, and certainly no Valentines. I cannot understand why anyone ever believes their school days were the best days of their lives ...

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I certainly don't. Well, high school was good. Elementary school was pretty awful. Do the revenge fantasies ever go away?

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

I don't have revenge fantasies but neither do I see the point of Friends Reunited. I am anticipating that on Saturday I'm going to receive a full rundown from my sister on the doings of people I have not seen for nearly thirty years and couldn't care less about. My, how exciting that's</> going to be.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

there there! *pets you*

School is traumatic. No getting around it. It's possible that was one holiday that didn't make the trip to Africa... hmmm.

[duir-id.livejournal.com]

trip to Africa? Oh please don't you start confusing me as well.... that's all I need more people confusing me. *sits in corner and tries to work out why Africa*

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're just the right amount of bitter. It's not "inclusion," it's marketing. "Selling overpriced shit to 1/2 the population isn't enough; let's find a way to make the other half pour buckets of money over us!" Not to mention that if anyone wanted to be truly sympathetic, they could simply, oh, not *rub your nose in it every 13 seconds.* Jeez.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

so true.

I actually wound up seeing family and drinking champagne with cassis and eating chocolate and pink heart-shaped cake. It was lovely! I think it's my new Valentine's tradition!

[lietya.livejournal.com]

That sounds like an excellent tradition!

[scapersuse.livejournal.com]

*snerk* I think I've stopped being bitter about Valentine's Day, especially since the people who it is supposedly for i.e., couples - well most of the ones I talked to today couldn't give a quarter-shit. Heh. And what did I do tonight? I got myself a 45-minute table massage - which I would have done anyway. :D

*lurve you lots*

[electricland.livejournal.com]

45-minute massage? Niiiiiice!

*hug*

I'm a little late to join the party...

[blue71canoe.livejournal.com]

...but, let me say. Oh hell yeah! Very nice rant. I was truly inspired!