Comments on: The St. Valentine’s Day Blog Massacre

By: apps

apps — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:30:27 +0000

Lots of thanks for posting this, It’s just what I was looking into this on google. I’ve been comparing opinions from different people, rather than an typical internet page, that’s why I like blogs so much. Many thanks!

By: apps

apps — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:16:23 +0000

You ought to actually think about working on creating this site into a serious authority on this subject. You evidently have the knowledge on the subjects everyone seems to be interested in on this blog anyhow and you might even make some money off of some advertisements. Only a thought, good luck in whatever you do!

By: Cam

Cam — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:56:34 +0000

Heh. I’m glad you liked it!

This discussion has opened my eyes in at least one respect: it’d never occurred to me that anybody could use the reminder that they could take a relaxing bath on a bad day.

By: Leah

Leah — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:22:43 +0000

It’s me–the massacred one–lifting my bloodied head to say that I chuckled at the title of your post, and like your take on the subject. I had to mention it back at the source today. Hope you don’t mind.

By: Cam

Cam — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:43:10 +0000

Hooray! I’d like to know what’d go on that CD.

By: ferneyes

ferneyes — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:39:47 +0000

I think I will use “Bubble Bath of Strength and Freedom” as the title for my next compilation CD.

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:25:32 +0000

Good point about widows. There’s a woman in our office whose husband was killed in Afghanistan last year. I cannot imagine what Valentine’s day must have been like for her.

I wish I’d thought (or read) about a bubblebath. It probably would have been better than what I actually did.

By: Wim

Wim — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 02:01:39 +0000

Mmm, I love it when I’m given a whole bunch of women’s energy. Next Valentine’s Day I hope to collect enough to fuel a whole fleet of yoni-powered phallic patriarchy projectors.

citrine: AFAICT, men do essentially the same things, just without magazines to tell them what they are. There’s “Wah, I’m soooo aloooone, I’ll do something indulgent”; there’s “Hah. I don’t need a woman to be happy! I’ll do something unusual”; there’s “I’m in a relationship and it’s SOOOOOO GREAAAAAT”; there’s the usual silent majority…

By: Cam

Cam — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 00:40:19 +0000

“Blog massacre” refers to the bitching on that blog I linked to, btw. Perhaps I should have made it more clear that that’s the thing I find most interesting: that for some “critical”, “educated” readers, taking that V-Day bubble bath becomes a bad subject when there’s somebody joining you.

By: citrine

citrine — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 00:10:39 +0000

What’s funny is I saw that ‘relax’ thing more as meaningfully applicable to people IN relationships, though not necessarily purely romantic ones (ie, dealing with other people and many kinds of love is difficult on any day of the year.)

The ‘How to Find Mr Right’ focus is probably the most aggravating media slant for me, worse than ‘celebrating one’s personal relationship/values that may or may not happen to be in line this year with something celebrated by the dominant culture’. What do men without partners do on Vlaneitne’s Day, or do they just not read maganizes?