Some women are replacing Valentine's Day with a V-Day of protest, inspired by and utilizing the male-bashing, strongly praised, strongly criticized Vagina Monologues.
In this essay in today's Federalist, Stephen Rhoades, a professor at the University of Virginia questions the justice and wisdom of that.
I recognize that Valentine's Day has become less an expression of love and more a marketing-inspired spendfest. It does cry out for replacement. But I'd replace it with a less materialistic expression of love--romantic and otherwise--not a replacement that unfairly tars an entire gender, indeed a worthy one.
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