Mistreatment of reindeer and elves, phallocentric crackers and sexually suggestive wreaths – Christmas has to be stoppedI recently stumbled across a penetrating article by Latham Hunter, a Canadian professor of cultural studies and communications, entitled: “It’s a holly jolly feminist Christmas – filled with one patriarchal construct after another.”Christmas has become considerably more problematic as a discourse since the publication of the article in 2014. It has long been noted that the personal is political. For Hunter, the seasonal is also political. Continue reading…
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