Not only do feminists throughout the world hate Valentine’s Day, but they seek to cancel girls who enjoy romance. Indeed, in the thought of many modern feminists, romantic love is a sexist hangover from our misogynist past. The basic idea is that romance patronizes women by objectifying them. On the street level, this creates real problems for girls who still cherish romantic ideals. Wendy Shalit reported that “in a different time, a young woman had to avoid giving public evidence of sexual desire by living with someone out of wedlock; today she must avoid giving evidence of romantic desire.” Read more about this in my Salvo article, “The Massacre of Valentine’s Day.”
