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Interesting!
I have always disliked the cheesiness and forced nature of Valentine's Day. There is nothing more awkward than a man giving you some kind of canned gift because he feels he is obligated to. (Fortunately, I am married now and my husband doesn't do stuff like that.)
But you have made me see the day in a whole new light -- the idea that our right to choose our own partners based on love and romance is still controversial in many parts of the world, and therefore Valentine's Day is a celebration of the human right to choose, a right that is particularly linked to women's rights given that limitations on the right to choose generally fall hardest on us.