{"id":17103,"date":"2019-02-06T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=17103"},"modified":"2019-02-04T13:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T21:23:22","slug":"lets-talk-the-real-meaning-of-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/02\/06\/lets-talk-the-real-meaning-of-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Talk<\/em>: The real meaning of Valentine\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s coming, and it\u2019s inevitable\u2014like grey hairs or the apocalypse, Valentine\u2019s Day is fast approaching. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I\u2019m not going to dump on people who are into the holiday, nor am I going to defend that the reason it\u2019s pointless is because it\u2019s a greeting-card company holiday made to pump money into the economy after the post-Christmas slump of January (even though it kinda is), nor am I going to be bitter and cynical and say the best part of the holiday is judging people\u2019s mushy social media posts\u2014but, come on, Valentine\u2019s Day is kinda bullshit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s Talk?<\/em> is a column exploring women’s rights issues; it’s in every issue of Nexus<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

For many years I held this stance\u2014mostly when I was single and my other single girlfriends and I would get together, watch horror movies, and eat gummy bears in a \u201csingle ladies\u201d slumber party, celebrating our independence. But, even when I\u2019m firmly in a relationship, I must admit (much to my partner\u2019s delight) that I\u2019m not really that into it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That being said, the reality is I will do my hair and makeup, put on fuck-me pumps and a dress, and go out to dinner with my boyfriend on February 14, and be irritated if he doesn\u2019t get me flowers (even though I always say I would way rather flowers on a random Tuesday in November \u201cjust because\u201d than a dozen roses on Valentine\u2019s Day). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reality is also that six weeks into the semester, I can guarantee we would both rather be at home eating Skip the Dishes and watching Friends <\/em>than dragging our butts out because we\u2019re in a relationship and that\u2019s what people in relationships do on Valentine\u2019s Day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But why? I find many people either a) cave to the pressure or b) have a hipster \u201cwe\u2019re above it\u201d attitude when it comes to Valentine\u2019s Day. I also know many people who hate V-Day because of the pressure it puts on them, people who love it because it\u2019s a day to express their feelings and get all mushy, and people with three kids who are too exhausted to fuck, let alone celebrate the beautiful mushiness of their relationship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, why do we do this to ourselves? The answer, folks, is simple: candy\u2014the 70-percent-off chocolate that we can actually afford as starving students and cram into our mouths just in time for midterms. The sugar rush of discounted candy that never got to fulfil its destiny of being eaten off a lover\u2019s body\u2014that is the meaning of Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s coming, and it\u2019s inevitable\u2014like grey hairs or the apocalypse, Valentine\u2019s Day is fast approaching.  Now, I\u2019m not going to dump on people who are into the holiday, nor am I going to defend that the reason it\u2019s pointless is because it\u2019s a greeting-card company holiday made to pump money into the economy after the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-february-6-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17104,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17103\/revisions\/17104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}