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...hands of greeting card companies and candy corporations, when it comes down to it, I really don’t care. As much as I would like to say that shattering gender stereotypes is at the top of my list of priorities, I don’t really think Valentine??s Day perpetuates any sexist agenda. And as much as I would love to say that Valentine??s Day spoils the rest of the month, we’re talking about February: impossibly dark, inexplicably short, and really freaking cold. Let’s face...
Apparently, this makes me some sort of a reverse-Scrooge in American society. From what I can tell, if you don’t hate Valentine??s Day, it’s assumed that you’re either shamelessly romantic or a helpless victim of the Big Bad Hallmark Man. But seeing as I don’t fall under either of those categories, I think there’s another explanation: I went to an all-girls high school...
...years in co-ed school were filled with some of the characteristic V-Day scarring. In first grade, the 100th day of school fell on Valentine??s Day and I remember having to put 100 heart stickers on the outside of a brown paper bag under duress. That was horrendous...
...middle school lubricated the inevitable unease of Valentine??s Day by allowing students to purchase carnations through the student council and have them delivered to unsuspecting kids in homeroom on February 14. Apparently this was supposed to open our eyes to the wide world of gift giving and displays of romantic affection. Unfortunately for the students of Deer Path Junior High, not all of us were the cool kids who drank beer and made out, and the nerdy pre-pubescent twelve-year-old who gives another nerdy pre-pubescent twelve-year-old a pink carnation on Valentine?...
Taking these experiences into account, celebrating Valentine??s Day in an environment essentially free of sexual expectations was liberating. Going to a Catholic school with a class of 48 girls was a culture shock after graduating one of 460 from a co-ed public middle school, and the creeping approach of Valentine??s Day threw the absence of boys into high relief—not to say that I had a lot of game in middle school, or even that my “romantic” encounters went at all beyond shy flirtation with...