friendly reminder that since a lot of people have decided xmas now starts right after halloween: not everyone celebrates xmas or wants to participate. don’t shame people for not participating in xmas traditions or blacklisting xmas. if people ask to not be wished a merry xmas, don’t wish them a merry xmas. don’t get upset if people express their frustrations with how christian normativity makes it impossible to escape this non-secular holiday for almost two months. if people want nothing to do with xmas, please just let them be.
and don’t pull the “it’s not religious it’s about FAMILY” thing either. one, it is fucking religious. two, some of us hate blood family far more than we ever hate religion.
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#Christmas #venting #I can’t believe they went and conquered my fucking birthday #it was unconquered when I was growing up #I was honestly glad to have been born premature because it meant I had escaped the Christmas season #but now it’s November fucking 1st #military’s not even high-status in my culture but sometimes I’m tempted to pretend it is #so that I’ll have an excuse to yell at the advertisers #about Disrespecting Our Veterans by Usurping the Eleven Days of Remembrance #(pushing it back to November 12th wouldn’t actually help with my birthday) #(but at least it would buy a bit of time) #((this post came up on my dash while there was a Christmas ad playing on the TV Mom’s watching)) #((which may have been the deciding factor in my reblogging it))
Brinens and Things 