Valentine's Day

Some of the genre conventions of Valentine's Day are romantic gestures, chocolates, and stuffed bears all adorned with pink colors and heart shapes. When I think of Valentine's Day, I think about people buying various things for each other, expressing love, and going to romantic dinners. However, I mostly think about the subversion of the genre convention where people express the bitter aspects of Valentine's Day, which are the fact that it only exists so that businesses can profit off of it, the fact that it is unnecessary because people don't need an assigned day to tell each other that they love each other, and that it serves as a reminder to single people that they are alone. Oddly enough, when I think about Valentine's Day, I remember that weird movie called Valentine's Day that Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner were in together. All I remember about the movie is the exaggerated love between Taylor Lautner and Taylor Swift. This example expresses the conventional ideas about Valentine's Day because the two characters are shown to have exaggerated romantic feelings for each other. An example of the subversion of the genre conventions of Valentine's Day shown all throughout Television shows is the trope that single women hate it. They vocally and abundantly express the aforementioned bitter feelings toward the holiday. I can't remember an exact example, but the idea is so common in television that an exact example is not necessary because nearly everyone has seen at least one episode of a show that that displays this trope.