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Jennifer Wojcik @JenWojcik@mastodon.social

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.

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:

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.

It's neither a just nor a perfect world, or Matt "Sooty" Canavan's kiddos would get coal.

And love it.