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[kierthos]

You know, I'm somewhat lucky in that, thus far, no one's given me any shit about not saying "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays". For that matter, I don't say "Happy Holidays" all that much either.

I suppose I can chalk up a large part of that to the fact that I work third shift, and therefore don't deal with as many customers, but it just seems sort of odd that Christmas is the only holiday we do this for.

Shouldn't people have a "happy holiday" for Easter, or Independence Day or President's Day as well? More to the point, we don't expect people to bring it up weeks beforehand for any other holiday.

Think about it... for any other holiday, there's no three to four week period before the actual holiday itself where there's as much concern over that holiday. You don't see people start acting all super patriotic at the beginning of June as a preparation for the 4th of July. Nobody starts saying "Have a happy Halloween" at the end of September. Sure, a lot of those holidays get the shit advertised out of them, but there's not the same desperate intensity to project beliefs on others.

But there are people who get their panties in a twist the day after Thanksgiving if you don't say "Merry Christmas" to them when they're paying for their purchases. They're boycotting stores because the employees there are saying "Happy Holidays".

But what would the Christmas season be without self-created stress?

Comments

[sabrarosa.livejournal.com]

I really think that all the hoopla about Merry Christmas vs Happy Holidays is created by a very small, sad bunch of people with nothing better to do as well as people who don't stop to think before hitting that button/link on their email. Fortunately, no one has sent me an email like that. If they do, I'm going to have to be unpleasant about it.

[mithras.livejournal.com]

Most of the people who freak out about it are just old enough to have been there, in the 60s, when Christ was put back into Christmas.

Hopefully, the stupid old bastards will die off soon. But, since many of them (and their kids) are "Quiver-folk" (fucking Duggars), we're going to have another couple generations of "derp derp" Christians.

[jdack.livejournal.com]

People expect you to say one or the other at the least, because we've been told all our lives that this is the time of year to be nice to people. "'Tis the season to be merry" and all that shit.

Somehow the month of December is our national day of atonement for 11 months of unrepentant disdain for each other.

I don't care if I'm called unpatriotic: this country is stupid.