Valentine's Day is coming, only a month left before Valentine's Day. I hate Valentine's Day with a passion.
Post your anti Valentine's Day rants in the comment section and let's exchange on why Valentine's Day sucks, is problematic, and is a scam.
They have so many good points and I couldn't agree more with them (and this is just a few examples:
As far as I'm concerned (and I know there's a lot of people out there who agree with me), Valentine's Day...
- Is the worst holiday ever.
- Is overrated.
- Is the time to rant about the capitalistic nature of Valentine's Day, but if you're single, lonely and miserable, treat yourself to takeout pizza or Chinese food and buy yourself some chocolate goodies.
(You need some feel-good hormones/chemicals when you feel lonely and miserable on Valentine's Day and chocolate and other comfort foods help with that:
https://researchoutreach.org/blog/love-chocolate/
You can eat them while watching a good TV series online or while reading a good book.)
- Exists to remind some people that after decades of trying to find acceptance and love they might as well resign themselves to spending the rest of their lives being single and virgin (mostly people who are disabled and/or ugly-looking through no choice or fault of their own and who never get the acceptance and love that they deserve as human beings, people who get punished over things they can't help or can't control). Not only that, it's especially on that day, Valentine's Day, that people rub in your face their relationship and that you don't have one and that they make you feel even more lonely and isolated than ever before.
- And promotes things like; ableism, disability-shaming, fat-shaming, ugliness-shaming, and virginity-shaming, and there's also some ageism too, in other words; mocking, ridiculing, dehumanizing, marginalizing and ostracizing people over things they can't control, over things they can't help or can't control. And I'm not even talking about all the homophobia, biphobia and transphobia, I've seen and heard a lot of that too (and it affects me personally because I myself am a member of the LGBT community, seeing as I'm bisexual, genderfluid (and AFAB, and gender non-conforming and I also have LGBT acquintances, so yes, all of the homophobia, biphobia and transphobia affects me personally, all this hate and bigotry is not good for mental health and by extension physical health because, you know, as the good old saying goes, a healthy spirit in an healthy body, if something affects your mental health, it will most likely affect your physical health as well).
- For some people who are in a relationship, they try to go out of their way on that "special" day for their partners but the rest of the year they're not even trying, and yet they still call that "love".
I know that from personal experience, because I as a member of several marginalized groups/oppressed minorities have experienced this myself and I know a lot of other people who may or may not be part of marginalized groups/oppressed minorities who have experienced this as well. Also, you can hear a lot of testimonies of people who have experiences these things on Youtube, there's just tons of these, it doesn't end. No wonder more and more people hate Valentine's Day and find this holiday problematic (problematic because it promotes a narrow view of love and sexuality like heteronormativity and strict monogamy, and because it's a commercialized holiday and because of many other reasons, and btw speaking of strict monogamy, people shouldn't have to set their bookmarks to private instead of public when they read fanfictions with poly couples in them on AO3/Archive of Our Own for fear of what others might think upon seeing their bookmarks and finding out that some of the fanfictions that they read are not necessarily strict monogamy).
I couldn't agree more with this guy:
See my reasons and other people's reasons why we hate Valentine's Day and why this holiday is so overrated and problematic right here (read the playlist description FIRST):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzG_3q50DuPlCDLucZibZBDxC1XoNaK9o
Do you hate Valentine's Day too? Do you think it's a holiday that's overrated, hurtful, problematic, commercialized and capitalistic, etc? Tell us what you think about Valentine's Day in the comment section.
Btw, if I could describe myself in a few words, I'd say that I am: One of many LGBT and pro-choice (pro-choice as in pro reproductive freedom and anti forced-birthing) Canadian Non-Partisan/Independent Christians with no political and no denominational affiliations and proud of it.
Kat.
Post your anti Valentine's Day rants in the comment section and let's exchange on why Valentine's Day sucks, is problematic, and is a scam.
They have so many good points and I couldn't agree more with them (and this is just a few examples:
As far as I'm concerned (and I know there's a lot of people out there who agree with me), Valentine's Day...
- Is the worst holiday ever.
- Is overrated.
- Is the time to rant about the capitalistic nature of Valentine's Day, but if you're single, lonely and miserable, treat yourself to takeout pizza or Chinese food and buy yourself some chocolate goodies.
(You need some feel-good hormones/chemicals when you feel lonely and miserable on Valentine's Day and chocolate and other comfort foods help with that:
https://researchoutreach.org/blog/love-chocolate/
You can eat them while watching a good TV series online or while reading a good book.)
- Exists to remind some people that after decades of trying to find acceptance and love they might as well resign themselves to spending the rest of their lives being single and virgin (mostly people who are disabled and/or ugly-looking through no choice or fault of their own and who never get the acceptance and love that they deserve as human beings, people who get punished over things they can't help or can't control). Not only that, it's especially on that day, Valentine's Day, that people rub in your face their relationship and that you don't have one and that they make you feel even more lonely and isolated than ever before.
- And promotes things like; ableism, disability-shaming, fat-shaming, ugliness-shaming, and virginity-shaming, and there's also some ageism too, in other words; mocking, ridiculing, dehumanizing, marginalizing and ostracizing people over things they can't control, over things they can't help or can't control. And I'm not even talking about all the homophobia, biphobia and transphobia, I've seen and heard a lot of that too (and it affects me personally because I myself am a member of the LGBT community, seeing as I'm bisexual, genderfluid (and AFAB, and gender non-conforming and I also have LGBT acquintances, so yes, all of the homophobia, biphobia and transphobia affects me personally, all this hate and bigotry is not good for mental health and by extension physical health because, you know, as the good old saying goes, a healthy spirit in an healthy body, if something affects your mental health, it will most likely affect your physical health as well).
- For some people who are in a relationship, they try to go out of their way on that "special" day for their partners but the rest of the year they're not even trying, and yet they still call that "love".
I know that from personal experience, because I as a member of several marginalized groups/oppressed minorities have experienced this myself and I know a lot of other people who may or may not be part of marginalized groups/oppressed minorities who have experienced this as well. Also, you can hear a lot of testimonies of people who have experiences these things on Youtube, there's just tons of these, it doesn't end. No wonder more and more people hate Valentine's Day and find this holiday problematic (problematic because it promotes a narrow view of love and sexuality like heteronormativity and strict monogamy, and because it's a commercialized holiday and because of many other reasons, and btw speaking of strict monogamy, people shouldn't have to set their bookmarks to private instead of public when they read fanfictions with poly couples in them on AO3/Archive of Our Own for fear of what others might think upon seeing their bookmarks and finding out that some of the fanfictions that they read are not necessarily strict monogamy).
I couldn't agree more with this guy:
See my reasons and other people's reasons why we hate Valentine's Day and why this holiday is so overrated and problematic right here (read the playlist description FIRST):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzG_3q50DuPlCDLucZibZBDxC1XoNaK9o
Do you hate Valentine's Day too? Do you think it's a holiday that's overrated, hurtful, problematic, commercialized and capitalistic, etc? Tell us what you think about Valentine's Day in the comment section.
Btw, if I could describe myself in a few words, I'd say that I am: One of many LGBT and pro-choice (pro-choice as in pro reproductive freedom and anti forced-birthing) Canadian Non-Partisan/Independent Christians with no political and no denominational affiliations and proud of it.
Kat.
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, and gender non-conforming and I also have LGBT acquintances, so yes, all of the homophobia, biphobia and transphobia affects me personally, all this hate and bigotry is not good for mental health and by extension physical health because, you know, as the good old saying goes, a healthy spirit in an healthy body, if something affects your mental health, it will most likely affect your physical health as well).
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