Don't Bother Boycotting Valentine's Day

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Don't Bother Boycotting Valentine's Day
by Laura Clawson
Sun Feb 14, 2010 at 01:21:26 PM PST

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/14/833294/-Dont-Bother-Boycotting-Valentines-Day

Permit me to wax autobiographical for a moment:

I came late to Valentine's Day. Lacking any parental example of giving a damn about it, Valentine's Day was differentiated from Flag Day in my eyes mainly by a sneaking suspicion that there might someday be something in it for me. By this I meant chocolate, not romance.

The ensuing years differed in the details but not the basic sensibility: If there was chocolate or a party in it for me, fantastic. But while I was aware in theory that some people felt pressure to be coupled on Valentine's Day, it was like my awareness of the views in the recent Daily Kos Republican poll. Other people thought that. People I didn't know.