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I heard that one of the DC or Marvel heroes — can’t remember if it’s Batman or Superman — now how a gay lover. Could they not have just invented a new hero??
Can't see Santa as much of a sexual partner. He only comes once a year, and that's down the chimney.
Seriously though, is it really necessary to focus on his sexuality at all? Better to leave it mysterious I’d think. Say he could be either if children ask. Nobody’s business but his. Let’s not forget that this is a children’s pantomime figure. Is a stridently gay Batman figure supposed to deflect from jokes about young Robin? These stories should hardly be forefronting sex as the main theme. Shagging should only be an incidental plot, if at all. As in real life.
Well thats christmas well and truly bolloxed. Next theyll be telling us Rudolph isnt a reindeer and the Baby Jesus was not born in a stable!!
That’s a mix-up isn’t it? As someone else pointed out, reindeers are real animals, with or without horns. The airborne sleigh is accepted as a fantasy for youngsters before they learn the reality. A symbol of their dreams flying through the air! But the other stuff — babies born out of virgins is just bad sex education.
Now there is the situation where the cooked-up fantasy of one religious group offends the cooked-up fantasy of another. The ancient Romans would be worrying at the same time if the annual Saturnalia would get out of hand.
One way out of it might be to declare solstices as a moveable feast and allow people a couple of days off work to celebrate it on dates according to their religious fantasies. (The solstice being a real event).
That way children could progress from flying reindeers to an interest in zoology — as some do — and adults progress to taking an interest in the movement of the planet they live on.
Maybe followers of Bacchus could have an orgy in public? Mmmm even the Romans found that a bit much!
