Valentines *feeling nauseous*, day of love huh, I beg to differ, this is definitely not a deep seeded root of anger that stems from 12year old Letso not receiving a flower from her crush or not receiving that voice message over the intercom during the last period of every valentines throughout her entire primary school career, NO!
It’s really because it is a money making scheme, based on an unnatural feeling that no one has control over. It forces people to buy ridiculous gifts just to make the next person smile whilst a 3rd person person is drenched in planet lonely. I for one do not subscribe to such notions.
I am not anti-love, definitely not. I just have my own interpretation of love, which is a tad bit different from the typical 'roses are red, violets are blue' kinda love. I believe in privacy of a union without any sort of domination from either parties, a union with mutual respect, where the man is not obligated to shower the lady with gifts but in fact does so from the heart, a union kinda similar to that of 'free-love activists' Lillian Herman and Edwin Walker.
A total coincidence is me coming across Judge Valentine, the judge presiding over the Herman-Walker case. According to Judge Valentine, the "essentials" of marriage included: life-long commitment, a wife's obedience to the husband, the husband's absolute control over all property, the wife taking the husband's last name, the right of the husband to force sexual intercourse on an unwilling wife (that would be rape, by the way), and the right of the husband to control and have custody of any children.
*this man must have fell and bumped his medulla oblongata against his frontal lobe*
With that said it’s quite clear how different this 'love' varies from person to person, we are not all strokes of the same brush and I’m pretty glad that’s the case because evolution would have been nowhere near possible.
It might take a few centuries for the valentines craze to wear off but I'm hopeful, if a living breathing human could rise from the dead after 3 days and not die twice from hunger or dehydration then I'm quite certain anything is possible, even the death of valentines. J
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