Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook.
Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday.
Valentine's Day is definitely one of those days where it's either awesome or it's a downer.
I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.
I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money-making stint to most people, it's a day of expressing love across the world. It doesn't have to only be between lovers, but by telling a friend that you care, or even an old person that they are still appreciated.
What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.
Valentine's Day is the hardest day of the year for a woman to get out, but everybody who is anybody and single is out that night.
Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
My ideal Valentine's Day is spending it with someone you are in love with and for that someone to make you feel loved and appreciated.
For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T - that's a bad word that doesn't go with L-O-V-E.