A lot of fucking.

Just kidding...kind of.

My partner and I are just going out to lunch at our usual Mexican restaurant, but only because that's our every Saturday lunch spot.

No cards, candy, flowers BS...and ditto to TheSoyMilkConspiracy ;)

My SO and I ate out once this week already, so he's coming over to help fix my dresser and I'm going to make us chocolate fondue in the microwave. I wish it was on a weekday, 'cause then I'd get candy from people at work. *sigh*

my lovely

Going to open a bottle of wine and watch a movie. Not really different from any other Saturday night. I think I'll want to make a dessert too, but since we're doing the money-saving thing, it will have to be from something already in the pantry. I hope we don't end up eating flaxseed and tomato ganache or something vile.

I posted much earlier here about my V-day feelings.

I bought chocolates for my sweetie. But really, I'll use any excuse to buy chocolates.

Staying home and relaxing (by myself). Although I am making my dog my valentine this year.

I took the opportunity to express to all of the wonderful women in my life (family, best friends, colleagues) how much I love and appreciate them. The one thing that is great about this holiday - for me anyway - is that it's not just about romantic love.

My partner and I go see a performance of the Vagina Monologues or order in Chinese and watch it on dvd.

My friends and I are hanging out, shopping, and then going to see Coraline. Woohoo!

Also, we love you too Feministing.com!!! Thanks to you, I have valid arguments whenever my friends defend patriarchy and sexism.

Don't forget women flower workers in the cut-flower industry if you are buying flowers for Valentine's Day! You can find out more about the abuses these workers face on this blog: http://laborrightsblog.typepad.com/international_labor_right/2009/02/the-day-of-the-flower-workers.html and on the International Labor Rights Forum website: http://www.laborrights.org/creating-a-sweatfree-world/fairness-in-flowers-0 or USLEAP: http://www.usleap.org/

And... you can check out a chocolate company scorecard (many use child labor on West African cocoa farms) here: http://www.laborrights.org/stop-child-labor/cocoa-campaign/resources/1942

The BF and I put on weekly amateur wrestling show, every Saturday, so we're doing our Valentines Day show. My character's evil, so I'm giving one of my opponents tainted chocolates which will cause him to abandon the match, and head for the restrooms. Yea, my team wins the match! Poop jokes for Valentines Day!

Nothing special, we'll spend quality time together after he gets off work, have sex, probably make a nice meal, and take advantage of the candy sales on sunday.

My SO's going to practice with his band. I'm going to make homemade baked potato chips with my new mandolin and wish that our friends who are coming through town on Sunday with their kitties were coming through on Saturday.

In other words, completely ignore this stupid holiday. ;)

It is true that Valentine's Day has become commercialized and trivialized, etc.; but the holiday actually (or at least originally) commemorates a priest who performed forbidden marriage for Roman soldiers. Ignoring what has become of the holiday (if that's at all possible) and considering how many of us cannot marry the person we love, it is, in some regards, one of the most radical holidays we can celebrate.

I'm not doing anything tomorrow, but on Sunday i plan to raid Meijer's supply of leftover Valentines candy. Hooray, cheap chocolate!

No plans as of yet for tomorrow, but later tonight the bf and I are going to go see a free 17 and older burlesque show that they're having on my college campus. Also, I just gave him a condom rose that I snagged from the Hispanic feminist group that was handing them out today. :-)

I do hope to do lots of fucking myself, though.

A group of friends and I are getting together to do some vehicle maintenance tomorrow. Our cars and bikes need some love. As far as I know, there will be no men around, just us rough and tumble ladies doing what needs to be done.

Afterward, we plan to go get ice cream and see a movie.

Incidentally, this has nothing to do with Valentine's Day, it just had to be done.

We had Valentine's Day [Observed] last night. Pizza, a decent bottle of wine, and ridiculous desserts. Oh, and TV.

A clear step up from last year, when we had to ask the manager if we could maybe get money back because the meal was so bad. Just say no to Valentine's Day pre fixe.

I'm on my school's dance team and we have two games tomorrow night. So going somewhere nice to eat, getting drunk and doing it til we turn blue isn't really an option. So my bf and I are probably just going to have a nice lunch and do the rest after the games :)

The massive amounts of pink always make me nauseous, but I'll take any excuse to eat somewhere fancy.

It's Valentine's Day here already (Australia) and I spent the morning dodging middle-aged men who I had to serve asking me if I had a Valentine... yuck.

My girlfriend and I refuse to even mention it - I haven't said "Happy Valentines!" at all. We're going to a gig tonight and to the beach tomorrow though.

And we love you back, Feministing editors!

i'm going to a memorial march for the missing and murdered women on vancouver's downtown east side, for v-day

Marathon of The Wire, bottle of Cava, some Italian food that takes six hours to cook, ice cream, kink.

It's not that I don't think that Valentine's Day is fine and fair enough excuse to go out and have a drink or dinner with whoever you might want to spend a few hours in the company of, but being stuffed into a room full of other couples trying extra hard to look couple-y, pelted with roses and ballons and given the special Valentine's Day menu of various red ingredients marked up to twice the usual price - and this only if you made a reservation two weeks ago - is hardly most people's idea of fun.

No cards - they seem superfluous when you're going to spend the evening with the person you're writing it to.

My partner is out of town, but if he were here, we would have prepared some anti-valentines day art and done some mischief, maybe some vandalism, it's what we did last year.

To celebrate Valentine's Day, I had a pap smear.

Nothing says romantic like a nurse's hand in your vagina.

I'm in Germany, where retailers have only just begun to catch on to the money-making aspects of Valentine's Day.

I'm enjoying the holiday this year, a real first. I don't know if it's the lack of commercialism, or just the fact that I'm separated from most of the people I love, but I've gotten into it. What's so bad about a day where you make a point to let those who are important to you feel special?

Though I'm sure this Valentine's Day Glow will disappear next year when I'm back in the states :(

Also: so far I have sent the above posted e-card to two people. My favorite someecard, which I sadly had no one to send to: "Lets make love when we're done fucking."

I hate Valentine's Day. It's the patriarchy's way to oppress the other - in this case, single people. Single people make people nervous, so they have to find a way to keep us down.

Fucking! I hope I can manage to get some candy sales too! Fuck Valentines day. It should be Vagina day!

I'm going to be in a production of the Vagina Monologues, and my boyfriend will be in the audience. Pretty good day, in my opinion.

bottling some beer, eating some steak and watching season one of the x-files on dvd.

I'm going barcrawling with a male friend. We're looking forward to watching the faces of guys who try to hit on me when I tell them I'm a lesbian.

I've only been in a relationship on Valentine's Day twice. And I know as a perpetually single girl I'm supposed to hate Valentine's Day and let it's heteronormative commercialized culture remind me what a sad, pathetic mess I am without a mate....

but I love Valentine's Day.

I know it's stupid, but I look at it as just a day about making you and the people you love feel special. Sort of like an everybody's birthday party.

I live in D.C., and this year my friends and I will be going to the American Art Museum to see a portrait of Obama...made entirely out of cupcakes. And at 5, they give the cupcakes out for free! Then we're going to Gifford's for the $2-special ice cream. After that, we are going to a movie theater where my friend works, who gets us in for free movies. Since we are walking and not paying for gas/public transportation, all together Valentine's Day is going to cost me....$2!

Tomorrow I'm going to "The Power of Chocolate" at the American Indian Museum. Finally, as an extended V-day thing, in a couple weeks I'm going back to my alma mater to see my friends perform in the Vagina Monologues.

Seriously. I love V-Day.

Today, I'm spending it with people who love me! During the day, I'm going out to lunch and see my college's production of "The Vagina Monologues" with my mom and grandma (the 2nd and 1st generation feminists).

For the evening, celebrating the awesomeness of being single with my girlfriends!

Drinking fancy beer and having a netflix weekend.

my girlfriend and i are going to a punk show at some shady loft, drinking a lot of cheap beer, and then making the mattress creak.

an average (and awesome) saturday night.

The plan:
1. Sleep late (check)
2. Make/eat leisurely breakfast (check)
3. Go for a walk or hike (check)
4. Go to one of the local adult shops like Adam and Eve or Priscilla's and shop for toys/inspiration
4. Go to the gym and work out (no one will be there!)
5. Go home for lots of post-workout sex

So yeah, just about all of our favorite simple things and no commercialism or cliches, just indulgence :)

Eating canned tuna and trying not to cry.

Not everyone sees it as a celebration.

I've been whupping my husband's ass at Wii Mario Kart all day. Nothing says love like childish gloating.

i made my boyfriend a collage of a shoe... a sneaker to be precise. he bought me real sneakers. he keeps looking at them because he loves them a lot, they were mostly a present for him that i wear :P

The only good thing about Valentines Day is the days after Valentines day...1/2 price on chocolates!

My sweetie and I were at a bluegrass fest for VD this year. He gave me an amazing MP3 player, filled with my punk and post-punk faves as an escape from the 24/7 bluegrass environment. He rules.

I gave him a swanky bowling shirt with flaming dice.

Also? I bought myself an incredibly beautiful upright bass (my current obsession) on VD itself, with total egging on from the mister.

Best Valentine's Day yet. :)

This is my first post here on feministing.com, but I'm a long-time fan.

First of all, my fiancee was in town for the weekend so we spent lots of quality (alone) time together. We went to visit his new nephew who is less than two weeks old. I held him and instantly fell in love! Haha, my fiancee's mother warned everyone not to let me smell the head because then I would instantly want a baby. =P

Afterward, we went to see "Broadway Romance" which was basically a concert with a large orchestra, Nathan Large (he played Count Fosco in the original Broadway version of Woman in White! Eee!), and Christina Saffran Ashford. I'm a huge Broadway fanatic so I LOVED it. I got teary eyed at some parts, I'm not going to lie. =P

I actually got the tickets from my younger brother's teacher. She couldn't make it for some reason and asked who in the classroom would like the tickets. My brother piped up and said I would. So sweet. ;_;

Alright, secondly, I love Valentine's Day, even before I had a relationship or wanted one. Does Hallmark and other such places take advantage of it? Well, sure, but so do other stores for Easter and Christmas. That doesn't make it a bad holiday.

Besides, there are plenty of people who wish they could celebrate, but are NOT ALLOWED TO BY LAW. Read the story here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29164011/?gt1=43001