"Romeo died for love, Valentine died for love, Jack of Titanic, Samson from the Bible, Hercules, Achilles, and even Jesus died for love"
Where are the women?
As tomorrow is Valentine's Day, this amusing anecdote is again gaining momentum in the cyberspace.
I first read it last year, mentioned and elaborated passionately by a female editor of our local daily English newspaper.
She tried (a bit) hard to expose the fallacy of this passage, but in the end, she must have realised that there is no fallacy in the above statement...
...because it is entirely true (apart from Jesus, where we Muslims have different interpretation about his final moment on earth).
Women always cry foul that they sacrificed a lot for love, but the truth is, as was proven time and time again over the course of history, men sacrificed a lot more than women.
Men even died for the women they love.
I do not celebrate Valentine's Day, but for one (especially women), just take a moment to appreciate men around you.
