Down with capitalistic consumer culture that tells us that showering in materialism one day a year is a necessary approach to demonstrating our care for a significant other! Down with societal expectations that promote monogamy, heteronormativity and tacky, giant, useless teddy bears bound for eventual landfill!
Why just celebrate one person one day a year when you are surrounded by people and things worth loving every day, all of the time?!
Here’s 4E’s take on things that are truly worthy of love and celebration this Valentine’s Day:
Epi’s salad bar
DeGioia’s smile
Healy Lawn
The Office
Bathroom Stall Art
Peets!
70 degree weather in February
Tinder
Free cake samples at Dog Tag Bakery
GUPD officers who smile
Arrupe’s study spaces
Arrupe being called Arrupe
NPR Politics
Leo’s vegan options
Yates midday
The Law Center GUTS bus
Lau’s free feminine product dispenser
Super Bowl commercials that promote unity
A friend’s baby photos
Your grandparents
Bitmojis
Peanut butter
The Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture
Lau’s book request system
Research grants
Sunshine
Fluffy dogs
Naps
Big dogs
Netflix
Little dogs
Booeymonger
Rumchata
If you’re still reading this and feel as though your qualms for the holiday have not subsided, here’s a list of things you might not love, but nonetheless could make you more grateful today for the things that you do love.
Here are things to also love today:
Donald Trump’s twitter
Expired groceries
The patriarchy
Systematic inequality
Georgetown’s rising tuition
Racial disparities
Antisemitism
Being ghosted
Canada Goose jackets
People who walk slowly
Read receipts
Saxanet
Poor customer service
Class with your ex
Classism
Corp coffee
Splitting the check
Partisanship
The Metro
Weekly assignments
Rejection
2k17’s lack of snow days
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