Stasisesque said:
Owyn_Merrilin said:
Stasisesque said:
Owyn_Merrilin said:
<link=http://www.vday.org/home>Vday is wonderful! Who couldn't support a day dedicated to ending violence against women? Oh wait, you meant Valentines day, and not the movement that actually popularized the V-day name.
I'm pretty sure this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day came first.
The VDay you mentioned, I've never even heard of before now.
What you are talking about did come first, but it's called VE day, not V-day.
It's called VE day now, when I was little we were still calling it Vday. Probably only because we barely learnt about Soviet history.
Still, St. Valentine predates the lot of them, and I wouldn't be surprised if people were referring to it as VDay long before the thing you linked started up.
And seriously, why have I never heard of that before? I looked it up, it takes place across the globe.
It's odd that VE day would have ever been called V-day, because the war was still going on in the Pacific, it was only a victory in Europe. As for why you haven't heard of the other V-day, it's two fold. For one thing, it's something you mostly hear about on college campuses and around highly educated feminists, rarely anywhere else. It grew out of stagings of a play called
The Vagina Monologues, which you may have heard about. For the record, I knew about
The Vagina Monologues ages ago, but never heard about V-day until last year. The fact that it actually falls on Valentines day probably doesn't help it get noticed.
As for St. Valentine's day, I seriously doubt people were calling it V-day until very recently. V-day is the kind of abbreviation that you didn't see much of before the birth of the internet. Most of the exceptions I can think of come from the military, which has always loved its acronyms.
