Already Forgotten
We don’t normally do news articles here at Tenderized Meat, but this one stood out.
A little background: I hate Valentine’s Day. I think it’s corporate garbage. No, I’m not going to spend money stuff because De Beers, Hallmark, Godiva and 1-800-Flowers tells me to. No, I’m not going to profess my love through a ridiculous greeting card. I’m not going to follow the flock into higher-than-normal priced restaurants so I can wait forever to be served a smaller, sappier than average portion. And don’t even get me started on what Valentine’s day is like for single people! I mean, don’t get me wrong, it was fun as a kid. But that was mostly because it involved candy.
So much do I hate this holiday, that I actually use it as part of my girlfriend pre-qualification standards (which will be the subject of an upcoming post).
Anyway, for years, my anti-Valentine’s stance has irked my mother. She has gone so far as to send Valentine’s greetings to my significant others, almost as a sort of apology for the jerk that she raised.
So it was with some entertainment that I opened my snail mail the other day, and sandwiched in between bills and ghetto furniture store fliers was a nice little pink envelope with this article clipped out of Time Magazine (my mom hasn’t yet mastered the art of sending a link). I think it was meant to make me feel bad, or perhaps my mother is just finally accepting that I will not change my stance. Either way, this is a nice little read. It’s good to see the mainstream media stepping up for once and not falling prey to the commercialism and sap of corporate Valentine’s propaganda.