And to think the fat red (thanks, Coca-Cola!) bastard was based on Nicholas of Smyrna, who (despite also being a cog in the patriarchal machine) was supposed to have done some things that weren't bad:9h
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You know what sucks? Even the whole damned concept of Santa reinforces the whole wealth=goodness capitalist bullshit we have been force fed our whole lives.
"Good" kids get presents.
"Bad" kids do not.
"Good"= family able to afford gifts
"Bad"="poor"
That's fucked up.
It's neither a just nor a perfect world, or Matt "Sooty" Canavan's kiddos would get coal.In one of the earliest attested and most famous incidents from his life, he is said to have rescued three girls from being forced into prostitution by dropping a sack of gold coins through the window of their house each night for three nights so their father could pay a dowry for each of them.
And love it.