Happy… Something
Well, as we’re approaching the winter holiday season, we’re also approaching the new, exciting tradition of complaining about what the call the holiday season. Over at The Carpetbagger blog, there’s an amusing and infuriating post about the various and sundry wars that are apparently seeking to destroy every holiday we’ve ever known.
Now personally, I don’t care if we say Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah or whatever you want to say. It seems to me that they’re all pretty positive sentiments, so why bother nitpicking.
But this kinda bugged me. Apparently Lowe’s has decided to advertise Christmas trees in their catalog as Family trees. Good times. The lack of logic in this particular one… are any non-Christians going to be purchasing Christmas trees… thereby necessitating the name change to Family Trees? Is that going to suddenly inspire legions of Jews and Muslims and Buddhists (oh my!) to rush out and buy their very own family tree so they can perch Vishnu or whoever on the top? I’m pretty sure we’re all still calling a menorah a menorah. Maybe if we called it "the eight family candles," everyone else would want to buy one. Or maybe we could consider applying common sense and picking our battles here and there, eh?
Of course, in honor of all this madness The Distracted Globe will be presenting our Second Annual Politically Correct, Non-Denominational, Winter Holiday Extravaganza in December. Buckle your seatbelts and deck the halls with boughs of something with no religious significance.
Did you notice they were forced to rename them as “Christmas Trees?” Looks a lot of us agree. Heard this story the other day and thought of your posting right away!
Comment by Daisy — November 30, 2007 @ 9:39 pm