Aspies For Freedom

I agree that it's completely ridiculous.

The main reason they're saying is that a deep booming voice may frighten children - the "offensive to women" thing was almost an afterthought. I still think that if he doesn't say "Ho Ho Ho", he's not Santa...

I never liked the whole Santa Claus thing, anyway.  The original Saint Nicholas was cool, but the red-suited pop-culture Santa Claus is just something to remind everyone how gullible we were as kids.  (e.g.  "Mommy, how's some flying fat guy going to fit down the chimney... when we don't even have a fireplace?")  It's like just another sacred NT rite of passage to make your kids believe fat guys and reindeer can levitate, just so you can laugh at them when they're older because you got them to actually believe that crap.

A decade ago, when the Web was in its infancy and a friend of mine had a dial-up computer bulletin board, I used the name "Satan Claus" as my character's name in the "door games".

As for this "ho ho ho" stuff... please!  Whoever's offended by that is making mountains out of molehills.  /metaphor  It's only going to hurt their cause by giving all the sexist pigs something to laugh about.  (I now have this mental image of Santa's sleigh flying over a red light district, and when he says "Ho ho ho!", a bunch of ladies wave and say "Hi!" back to him.)

That's incredibly stupid.

Someone should counter it by dressing up as a pimp santa and scream "HO HO HO" at the top of their lungs...

Well, actually, both ideas are stupid, but the latter would at least be amusing.

Oh dear. Do we also have to change the names of garden tools?    Will the Titon Mountains be wiped off US maps for being too sexist?  Will we no longer be able to eat at Chi Chi's restaurants?  Will dog registrations have to stop writing about "bitches"?  Will bakers no longer be able to sell tarts?  What about cream filled longjohns?

Have you ever noticed that people who are quickly offended seem to have incredibly filthy minds?  

This article says the huff was based on misinformation.  Still, it is an amusing debate people seem to enjoy.  So.. make your yuletide gay!  Er... unless that offends you.

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro...ohoho.html

An earlier report that an employment company told some of its Santa Clauses not to say “ho ho ho!” because it might be considered offensive to women is apparently incorrect.  The Daily Telegraph newspaper in Sydney reported that Santa trainees were being instructed to say “Ha ha ha!” instead. The report said some trainees were quitting in disgust.  

A spokeswoman for Westaff, an employment company based in Walnut Creek, Calif., said its Australian branch did suggest Santas lower their voice and maybe use a softer tone, such as “Ha ha ha!”, around small children who might seem intimidated by them. But even that was simply a suggestion, she said.  She said the company never had a policy that banned saying “ho ho ho!” and it wasn't backtracking now because of controversy or the appearance of yielding to political correctness.

Ho, as in "***".

I liked ichtms vertion better,but still theres is a a few mistakes in the text.Santa says hallo,not hallå.

Twas the night before a non denominational winter holiday when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.(Don't you dare kill it!!)
The neutral gift sacks were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that a non-specific holiday figure would soon be there.
Children of every race, creed and nationality were resting all snug in their beds
While visions of sugar-free plums danced in their heads
When out on the lawn there rose such a clatter
I got up out of bed to see what was the matter
(and to see who was violating the neighborhood sound level ordinance).
But what to my wondering eyes did appear?
An emissions free vehicle and eight sized challenged reindeer.
'Holiday figure' was so lively and quick.
I knew in a moment it must be, well, holiday figure.
He had a broad but normal face and an advanced sized belly
and he laughed "lady of the evening, lady of the evening, lady of the evening!

- Larry the Cable Guy

i AND all my class think thats a stupid idea

Let's just call it Yule.

Psh... I don't see anything wrong with being open and understanding to the fact that not everyone celebrates Christmas... A few years back there was this really wierd backwards slide in polical correctness in the US and people were going on the news making bafoons out of themselves saying things like, "If you don't say Merry Christmas its just not right! It's unamerican!" but we all know how over the top we americans get...   I made a point to tell everyone that said, "merry christmas" to me, "happy holidays"  I like polical correctness, you know, established rulse of behavior and all...

The whole Santa thing still gives me the creeps. The sets they set up at the mall are always horrible with the cotton snow and plastic reindeer. My oldest finally didn't scream on his lap last year when she was four...  I kept hoping that it would be the year previous. As a parent I don't like the whole obnoxious marketing thing of Christmas... such a pain.

Sounds good to me! We can even say to people "Yule do"... *grins*

If it's offensive to say hoe, then what the hell is this thing called?

Wonderous Yule-Tide.

Yule.