If you must post some long ranty bullshit about how Thanksgiving is the holiday of the evil dead white oppressive masculine principles, could I ask that you please cut-tag it?
Yes, the pilgrims were fucking bastards. Yes, they did bad shit. Yes, they were thrown out of England for being prostelytizing assholes.
If you have NOTHING ELSE TO SAY THAN THAT, can you please shut the fuck up now. One would have to have been brought up under a rock to have missed that the pilgrims were assholes who got thrown out of England and proceeded to do bad shit. This is such common knowledge that it was even part of Addams' Family Values for the love of Pete.
You are saying nothing new, you are saying nothing essential, you are saying nothing novel. You should shut the fuck up: however, it is your journal, so if you must indulge this particular vice, I would ask that you do it behind closed doors. Or cut tags.
And wash your hands afterwards.
Yes, the pilgrims were fucking bastards. Yes, they did bad shit. Yes, they were thrown out of England for being prostelytizing assholes.
If you have NOTHING ELSE TO SAY THAN THAT, can you please shut the fuck up now. One would have to have been brought up under a rock to have missed that the pilgrims were assholes who got thrown out of England and proceeded to do bad shit. This is such common knowledge that it was even part of Addams' Family Values for the love of Pete.
You are saying nothing new, you are saying nothing essential, you are saying nothing novel. You should shut the fuck up: however, it is your journal, so if you must indulge this particular vice, I would ask that you do it behind closed doors. Or cut tags.
And wash your hands afterwards.
I like to eat good food and spend low-stress time with people I care about. I like singing "Alice's Restaurant" with no shame or sarcasm. I miss the FG Thansgiving parties.
This Thanksgiving I will be thinking of you and the rest of my absent friends (or am I absent?), and I will be having a great time. I wish you and the whole crew the same :)
So, you know, Happy Holidays.
-R
Mmm. Mmmm. Mmmmmmm.
Hope you have a happy thanksgiving!
Please don't take it personally.
In, and out, of this forum.
If you wish to take the above post personally, that's your privilege: however, I'm not going to accept responsibility for your reaction to something I do. You can certainly point out that it made you react in some manner or other- which is exactly what happened above.
So for me, the holiday isn't at all about the bountiful harvest, or some spiritual mumbo-jumbo about harmonizing with native elements in the world around you, or anything of the sort - it's about being thankful that you didn't starve to death, get killed by hostile forces or freeze to death. Very much of a 'I'm so thankful things are good and aren't a zillion times worse' deal.
Like most institutions, I firmly believe that it is far more effective to make the tradition into what you want it to be, give it personal meaning that may or may not match what society says it is about. I think the FG holidays have definitely been the better for that. ;)
Of course, the Catboy has also demanded the right to play Burrough's piece about Thanksgiving along with Alice's Restaurant this year.
I hate turkeys. They fucking murdered my family. I want them all to die horribly. Then go in my tummy.
The turkeys, not my family.
*tic*
I don't know where I am on Thanksgiving - I like the modern holiday but feel kind of queesy about it's origins. But if I were pissed about it, I'd certainly not want to stop or cut my unoriginal rants until the TV programs and schools stop their unoriginal romanticizing and whitewashing a pretty unclean history (they have gotten better, of course, but I still remember the textbooks I had in elementary school and EWWWW).
I rather suspect, though, that you are not particularly fond of the bs history either (the cartoons about the warm and loving brotherhood and benign peace between native and european that the Holiday celebrates!).