Those of you who are parents will appreciate this (if you live in Skokie, IL, you'll really appreciate it). Michele of A Small Victory puts out the word that she's running a contest to see who can best envision a politically-correct holiday season. Right now, commenters are competing to see who can best mangle lyrics to holiday songs (though she apparently did that contest last year).
I kinda like this one:
You don't need to watch out
You can cry all the time
Keep a permanent pout
I'm tellin' you why
Santa Claus is a performance-neutral giver.
And I love how this segment from "Walking Through A Winter Wonderland" is modified for the feminists in the audience:
In the meadow we can build a snowperson,
Then pretend that he or she is a member of the clergy from the religion of your choice or, if you prefer, a justice of the peace.
He or she'll say: Are you married?
We'll say: No person,
Because marriage is a paternalistic construct
Designed to suppress women
Someone just jumped in in the comments to say that his tax dollars shouldn't have to support any religious expression in schools, so I expect the thread to take a more combative tone.
Posted by kswygert at November 24, 2003 07:42 PM