I'm With Cupid

What's with all the Valentine's Day haters? Some of my single friends celebrate V-Day ironically, and I sense that they look down on my boyfriend and me for celebrating it for real, as if we're just buying into a giant marketing campaign.

--Romantically Uncool

Occupy Wall Street is so 2011. Trendsetting inequality haters should be occupying Hallmark: "If we don't get love, you don't get love, either," and "This is what a woman without a boyfriend looks like!" Valentine's Day has been hijacked to sell everything short of heart-shaped rubber vomit. I even got a Valentine's-linked press release pitching surveillance services. Right. Nothing says "I love you" like installing a keylogger on your partner's laptop. The louder the hyping of the day, the louder the message that somebody's a loser if they have nobody to buy a bunch of red merch for. So, your single friends' cooler-than-thou attitude is understandable, but there's something better than being cool, and it's being happy. Let them have their black-frosted cookies with the little dead cupids and their marches against romance-colored corporate greed...well, until next year, when they're sneaking into Godiva to buy chocolates for the girl they fell in love with after they got pepper-sprayed together.