Society The War On Valentine's Day

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Ve don't vant to buy flowers or shit in toilets, please respect our culture
 
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Every year I see people complaining about Valentine's Day offending them, I think back to Richard Sherman and his dorm room experiences regarding the same.


https://deadspin.com/richard-shermans-email-to-his-stanford-dorm-is-priceles-922762394


Background...

In my dorm West Lag (like in many dorms at Stanford), there was a tradition that on Valentine's Day, the men in the dorm would wake up early, bang on the doors of the women to wake them up, bring them to the dorm lounge, and sing to them. We sang Boyz II Men's "I'll Make Love to You." It's a cheesy, fun tradition, but one of the upperclassmen in the dorm was not amused, and she blasted out this email to the dorm listserv, which goes out to all the residents of the dorm.
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And people unhappy for logistical reasons, but never waste a moment to virtue signal:
Assholes,

Some of us have midterms this morning. If you really wanted people to have a happy Valentine's Day, why the FUCK would wake us up at 6 in the goddamn morning? What the hell is wrong with you? You should have just SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Fuck you,

[Sally]
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I don't mean to be disrespectful to [Steve] but given all the useless junk that comes through the westlag chat, I don't understand how a discussion of the valentine's day round up thing is inappropriate. Personally, I find the tradition pointless, but more importantly, it seems to imply that romantic love is something reserved only for heterosexual relationships. Did it ever cross anyone's mind that it may be awkward for a gay man to be forcefully pulled out of bed at 5AM and demanded to give a rose and then sing a song entitled "I'll Make Love to You" to a woman?

[Bob]
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All,

I completely agree with [Bob]. As someone who works in the LGBT CRC, I have heard many complaints by different individuals in the queer community about this Stanford tradition. Just because something is a tradition doesn't make it right and it doesn't diminish its capacity to oppress. The tradition of having men give women flowers is totally heteronormative and it sends a clear message to residents that Valentine's Day is a day of celebration of heterosexual love.

This tradition also enforces gender roles in which the woman is passive and the man is active. There are also ethical issues around supporting flower industries which cause numerous health problems in Latin American women who cultivate the flowers that are then exported to the U.S. If you are someone who likes to give or receive flowers, you should read up on this industry. Given this information it seems obviously ironic to express love for a woman in the United States by giving her a flower grown in poison.

[Sally]
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And the golden moment:
Lol

To all You assholes complaining,

If you dint like it live in another dorm next year then because tradition is tradition and If your Homosexual don't celebrate the holidayy if its that big of a deal but im tired of yall complaining about a couple of hours of sleep yall are some assholes. Stop bitching and fuckin adapt I wake up that early everyday and I aint complaining so you guys really need to just shut the fuck up. Everyone else had fun so fuck the people who are complaining

Richard Sherman
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Rambo John J

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I think we aren't doing valentines day as far as gifts etc...

probably just sling some nut at her and call it good

we like to keep expectations low
 
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