*All the single ladies on Valentine’s Day, Shonda Rhimes says chill, it’s not that bad.
A fan made the mistake and opened a can of whoop a** when she asked if the “Scandal” creator has any advice for single women moping on the commercial love day.
“Here is what I say to all the ladies who are alone on Valentines Day: please do not ever use these words ‘ladies who are alone on Valentine’s Day’ together in a sentence ever again. Ever. Again,” Shonda started.
She added that it’s just another day in the year and people need to get out of that BS mindset of having to be with someone on Valentine’s Day because it’s not that serious, ever.
Instead, she suggested that single ladies focus on the love they do have in their lives.
“Go. Be happy with the people you love and who love you,” she wrote before rattling off a list of things to do today that range from the reasonable to the comically impossible. “See a friend. Read a book. Flirt with a cute boy (or girl). Dance it out. Watch a movie. Have a party. Build a robot. Stop a Zombie Apocalypse. Take over the Earth. Paint your toenails. Eat soup. DO ANYTHING.”
Go girl.
And she followed up with a good slap in the face, encouraging people not to buy into the commercialism and feel excited to just be alive.
She said, single women don’t need cheering up because, “THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU.”
The bottom line, according to Rhimes, is that women should focus on something other than their single status, declaring, “f*ck Valentine’s Day. Go do something with your life!”
Perfect!
PREACH!
Perfect! I love her. I’ve not cared about valentine’s day since elementary school. But I still like to see kids celebrate valentine’s day. It’s cute. But when I see grown ass women gush and blush about a holiday created by card companies, not so cute.
All Valentine’s candy is half-price tomorrow!
I agree with her, but all the suggestions she gave are things you already do anyway. How about coming up with some new ideas of things to do, and how about tips for finding a good man for the women that DO want someone special to celebrate Valentine’s Day with. How about YOU GIVING someone something for Valentine’s Day be it a relative, friend, or down and out looking person, because you have to give before you can get. But actually, I’m glad I don’t have to worry about if a man is going to give me the right gift or a gift at all today, and that’s good because I feel more in control of my life by not having to depend on whether or not I’m going to have a good day depending on what some man is or is not going to do.
‘Course, it helps in saying F Valentines Day when you’re a big time TV producer with a gazillon dollars to cuddle up with. Just sayin.’
Do you agree with this quote” It’s better to have loves and lost than never to have loved at all?”
There are many routes to happiness that do not include money. If you think money equals happiness, you are delusional.
Correction: the quote should read ” It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?”
I’m single and all I’ve been hearing today from the women in relationships are complaints about what they did and/or didn’t get or what they better get. Then a co-worker’s husband sent her some candy & flowers and she’s complaining about how that better not be all he gets for her today. When I was in a relationship I didn’t complain…I was grateful for not what he did or didn’t do on V-day, but rather what he does all the time. It’s just one day and some of these women will be mad at their husbands/boyfriends throughout this weekend because he didn’t get them something. How is that love??? Someone else on a social network site posted she will withhold sex from her husband if he doesn’t come correct with the gift! It baffles me cause these are the ungrateful women who always seem to get a husband. I digress…I’m enjoying this day like any other day…the first Valentines in the past four years that I have been single and it’s still all good!!!