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Thanksgiving is a celebration of how the White Man came and stole the land from the Native Americans and tried to commit mass genocide through traditional and germ warfare, as well as segregation and starvation. We celebrate by being gluttonous and then trampling each other at "Black Friday" sales. This is the only holiday celebration that gets it's own National Day Of Mourning on the following day. I really can't believe that this is a holiday that some folks still defend as a thing that needs more recognition! I'll pass, thanks.
However, there *is* an alternative, called "The Holiday Season"! It starts on October 31st with the Opening Ceremonies Masquerade Ball, which has overtones of death and horror in honor of the atrocities committed against the Native Americans and those who lost their lives on Black Friday of years passed. We then move on to the Rehearsal Dinner on the last Thursday in November (they don't even give Thanksgiving it's own specific day, just "I dunno, somewhere around the end of November"), and then the Four Days Of Christmas (Little Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day). followed by the All-Night Wrap Party on December 31st! TWO SOLID MONTHS of one awesome Holiday Celebration WOO!!!
That's not to say that you don't need to *pace yourself*. Just because Rudolph is on the radio doesn't mean you have to eat cookies, chug nog and buy more presents 24/7 - just go with it! Just be happy that there's only *two months* out of the entire year that this stuff is acceptable and allowed to exist. Two months where you're allowed to talk about Santa Claus, enjoy a candy cane and hum "Jingle Bells" without suffering public ridicule. TWO MONTHS! That's all I ask for, is permission to be happy for *two months* before you force me back into the "We should accept everyone for whatever they want to like and believe in EXCEPT Christmas stuff, because liking Christmas stuff when it's NOT Christmas is just CRAZY".
I really don't understand the people who have very real, very passionate HATRED towards these two months. I just don't get it.
However, there *is* an alternative, called "The Holiday Season"! It starts on October 31st with the Opening Ceremonies Masquerade Ball, which has overtones of death and horror in honor of the atrocities committed against the Native Americans and those who lost their lives on Black Friday of years passed. We then move on to the Rehearsal Dinner on the last Thursday in November (they don't even give Thanksgiving it's own specific day, just "I dunno, somewhere around the end of November"), and then the Four Days Of Christmas (Little Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day). followed by the All-Night Wrap Party on December 31st! TWO SOLID MONTHS of one awesome Holiday Celebration WOO!!!
That's not to say that you don't need to *pace yourself*. Just because Rudolph is on the radio doesn't mean you have to eat cookies, chug nog and buy more presents 24/7 - just go with it! Just be happy that there's only *two months* out of the entire year that this stuff is acceptable and allowed to exist. Two months where you're allowed to talk about Santa Claus, enjoy a candy cane and hum "Jingle Bells" without suffering public ridicule. TWO MONTHS! That's all I ask for, is permission to be happy for *two months* before you force me back into the "We should accept everyone for whatever they want to like and believe in EXCEPT Christmas stuff, because liking Christmas stuff when it's NOT Christmas is just CRAZY".
I really don't understand the people who have very real, very passionate HATRED towards these two months. I just don't get it.
