Claiming that Valentine's Day is too "patriarchal," radical feminists such as Andrea Dworkin are hoping to replace St. Valentine with St. Wilgefortis, a Portuguese princess who, legend has it, grew a beard to make herself repellent to men so that she didn't have to marry against her wishes, leading to her crucifixion.

[Ed.: Dworkin describes Valentine's flowers as "flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill."]

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