I'm not looking forward to some of my family's personal pearl clutching. The family bigot not that she's the only one just the loudest will be at Christmas eve and I'm not looking forward to hearing what she wants banned this year.
Man, I was having fun reading about the krampus thing. That sounded hilarious, and despite people complaining, it sounds like the actual event was really popular. But then I clicked the other links...
"THERE'S A WAR ON CHRISTMAS AND THE FAMILY. But also, like, half of every family needs to shut the fuck up, so really, it's just a war on dicks, I guess."
I love festivals and embracing weirdness is great. For me, unless it's genuinely harmful, I just look away as a rule? There is shit that happens locally that makes me want to gag, but if no one is suffering then it's not my business.
basically at the core anyone who cries that their lights and trees are under attack needs to be asked "are you celebrating Yule? No? Okay well that's not your tradition so stop appropriating it."
there is literally an ad on my TV right now with Mike Lindell complaining about cancel culture affecting his business. no, Mike, you're just being called out for your garbage behavior
I'm reminded of the American Dad episode where Stan's dad becomes Krampus, and the overall theme is "yall are shit because no one's out there scaring you straight" and..........kinda yeah?
It's literally all in good fun and tradition, and from what I've seen the kids were fine so. It's not that big a deal? Ads on youtube show scarier shit.
Santa doesn't, and you're supposed to let him in without questions when we're taught not to trust strangers and just....he can almost look like cartoon made real and it's uncannY!
For me, the scariest part of Christmas was when we were in pretty much a cult, and the church we went to had a graphic passion play following the Christmas play
I mean, consider the number of people in fandom who subscribe to "if I don't like it that means no one can like it, stop having fun I don't approve of!!" it's basically that
not that she's the only one just the loudestwill be at Christmas eve and I'm not looking forward to hearing what she wants banned this year.