seasonal questions...
Nov. 30th, 2005 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanWhy was Santa such a bigot, to tell Rudolph he couldn't be on the sleigh team when he was just a wee foal, because his nose glowed? Where was affirmative action when Rudy needed it?
(oh great. Now I'm feeling an urge to do a Fractured Fairytales version of modermizing Rudolph...)
And anyone other than me suspect, based on this protrayal, that Mrs. Claus was just a beard, and Santa and Herbie the dentist-elf were getting it on back in the toy workshop?
Yes, Rudolph's on tv tonight. God, watching this is just... it's got such a homosexual (not-quite-sub)text. Really.
I mean, come on. Rudolph's dad tells him to 'cover up' so he'll be able to play with the other kids, and get a decent job. The boys pick on him and the girls giggle when his 'nose cover' falls off during the reindeer games. He has to go on the road with another (rather delicate, with great hair) misfit (and encounter a great burly he-man who takes them under his wing) in order to find the strength to come back and be proud of who he was...
Uh-huh.
What? I am NOT procrastinating work. I'm...indulging in historical social research via the textual deconstruction of a media icon. Yeah, that's it.
(oh great. Now I'm feeling an urge to do a Fractured Fairytales version of modermizing Rudolph...)
And anyone other than me suspect, based on this protrayal, that Mrs. Claus was just a beard, and Santa and Herbie the dentist-elf were getting it on back in the toy workshop?
Yes, Rudolph's on tv tonight. God, watching this is just... it's got such a homosexual (not-quite-sub)text. Really.
I mean, come on. Rudolph's dad tells him to 'cover up' so he'll be able to play with the other kids, and get a decent job. The boys pick on him and the girls giggle when his 'nose cover' falls off during the reindeer games. He has to go on the road with another (rather delicate, with great hair) misfit (and encounter a great burly he-man who takes them under his wing) in order to find the strength to come back and be proud of who he was...
Uh-huh.
What? I am NOT procrastinating work. I'm...indulging in historical social research via the textual deconstruction of a media icon. Yeah, that's it.
