Ba f*cking Humbug

Every since Eysqueen wrote about Santy Claus, or maybe it was just seeing the fat man EVERYWHERE, or maybe it was the lady behind me in a store telling her kids if they didn’t straighten up she was going to tell Santa to give their toys to kids who could behave. Or maybe it is just after December 13 and no one is talking about my birthday anymore.

Whatever the reason, my HATRED of Santa Clause has doubled tripled.This week I went to a X-Mas party, and the host had Black Santas everywhere. And I wanted to stomp their little fat faces in.

On other occasions this week, I have gotten a chance to play with a few of my very cute little cousins, who have been very excited about getting presents (and having new people to play with). And every so often one of the stupid adults would say something stupid about Santa Claus coming, and I would grit my teeth and hold my tongue.

Why?

Because all I wanted to say was: SANTA CLAUS DOES NOT EXIST!!!!!!!!!!!

I think it is ABSOLUTELY wrong to trick kids into believing in this FAKE person. I mean, boogyemen don’t exist, right? And there isn’t (and has never been, according to my mother) a goblin living under my bed, waiting to eat my toes and suck me under the bed, right?

Then why the F*CK to very educated parents persist in lying to their kids about a fat happy man that breaks into homes EVERY YEAR?

My mother never told my siblings and I that there was a Santa Claus.

And I thank her dearly for it.

WHY?

Because when we got Christmas presents, we understand the SACRIFICE and HARDWORK, on my mother’s part that went into making sure that we had presents at all. AND we were F*CKING grateful and hugged and kissed our mother to let her know that her good deeds did not go unnoticed.

Unlike these badass kids today who do not understand the meaning of thankfulness, giving and sharing.

All they know is MINE and GIMME.

The meaning of “Christmas” has completely been forgotten. So forgotten that I was forced to send out the following Christmas Day message

Merry Hanukkah, Happy Christmas, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice and other pagan and commercial gift-giving season.

I feel that I have to acknowledge the season, but I kind of hate Christmas and all it has come to represent. I would rather get presents during the year for being good, rather than having the pressure and the competition of getting (and giving) the right present for Christmas.

And while I LOVE my family, I would rather visit them individually at their homes, than trudging from house to house on Christmas Day forcing myself to smile and be f*cking merry.

I’d rather be a home in my sweats watching a movie (or a House marathon on USA).

Why do we continue to buy into the forced merriness of this time of the year? (while it is cold as BALLS, and we can’t even go from house to house without repeated layering up (to go outside) and stripping (once we get into the house)).

At the very least, can’t we move Christmas to August? And make it a mandatory beach vacation full of beautiful half-naked people and margaritas?

*sigh*

Anyone wanna co-sign that?

In the meantime, I, evil demon that I am, have been whispering under my breath all week, “I hate f*cking Santa.”  And it has been oh so hard not to randomly tap little kids on the shoulder and say, SANTA DOES NOT F*CKING EXIST!!!!

Would it be so bad to just gather all the munchkins together and say, Kids, your moms and dads work hard. They work and save (or borrow and steal) to make sure that you get that Big Wheel or Xbox or Barbie doll, so when they tell you to do your homework, or clean your room or eat your veggies, YOU better f*cking do it! There is no Santa, there is no naughty/nice list. There are just the parents that you drive crazy 364 days a year. Be NICE to your parents, and be NICE to your teachers. Behave yourselves in public, and stop being an embarrassment.

It’s the least the little rugrats can do to repay their lemming parents for keeping Toys R US in business, right?

Ok, I’m done.

I hope everyone had a nice semi-religious, pagan holiday season.

Love,

Your neighborhood Grinch

 

I should stop listening in on the conversations of others

I had lunch outside today and there were about 8 ba-gillion mothers and/or nannies out there with their babies. In the midst of all the crying children I overheard two ladies talking about how a friend of their kid’s was getting picked on at school because his parents were gay. I don’t know if the kid lives with his two mom or two dads, but he didn’t want to go to school because the other kids made fun of him.

One mother told the other how she explained to her son why he shouldn’t make fun of the kid with gay parents (KWGP) and, furthermore, why he should stand up for his friend. I thought this was super admirable of her and I kept listening.

She reminded him that he had black friends and that black people couldn’t change their skin. She told him that he doesn’t make fun of them because their skin was different. In her mind, the logic followed that you shouldn’t make fun of the KWGP because his family is different and because he couldn’t change his parents. Huh? Should the KWGP want to change his parents? Should I want to change my skin?

She also gave the example about people having different religions and how it is ok that people believe differently and should be accepted anyway. (Much better, mama)

As a black person and as a non-heterosexual, I thought about her comments and analyzed their usefulness.

At face value, I thought it was hilarious and infuriating that she compared changing skin color to changing your parents (both, which I’m sure lots of kids have wanted to do) I never wanted to be white, I just wanted longer, prettier hair. Anyway, wouldn’t it have been better to say, there are different kinds of people. People have different kinds of families. Some families have parents and kids, some families have grandparents, and some families have step-parents and step-kids, and some families have two moms or two dads and all these kinds of family are ok. Her logic total ignored the whole gay thing and it highlighted our differences instead of our similarities. (we all have families vs. we all have different skin)

The more I thought about it, I was just glad that she is trying to teach her kid about diversity and accepting people in spite of/because of their differences. I guess her explanation is better than saying “picking on people is bad and shouldn’t be done” (just because). That kid will (hopefully) be able to enter a room full of different kinds of people and be ok, because his momma said that people can’t change what they look like and who they live with and we have to be nice to them anyways.

What she was trying to teach was very, very important. She tried to convey that what a person looks like or how they live or how they believe (even if it is different from you) doesn’t make them any less worthy of respect, love and friendship. She explained it to her 8 year old and he got it. So…how do you make adults understand it?