Holiday mystery #229.3

[starlady]

Maybe someday I will have a consequential post again. Actually, I just remembered one I meant to make, but in the meantime, an extremely consequential poll.

Okay, so. Have you ever heard that song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"? I always used to think that the song is a joke on its child narrator who doesn't get that his/her father is Santa Claus, but in light of other versions of the song, which feature a (male) child saying that he's going to tell his dad about his mom kissing Santa Claus, now I'm starting to wonder if the song isn'tin fact an expression of patriarchal norms keeping women oppressed in the home (in the 50s, when the song was written).

Poll #1822 Holiday mystery #229.3, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

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The song is...

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A joke on the kid
3 (42.9%)

Patriarchal collusion between father & son in action
2 (28.6%)

Annoying
5 (71.4%)

Do you seriously use brain cells thinking about this?
1 (14.3%)

Mm, Christmas. Cookies, that is.
3 (42.9%)

Comments

[kaigou]

Somehow, I am not surprised to see that 'annoying' has gotten the most votes.

[dancinglights]

More evidence that I really was just born to be polyamorous and had no context until later in life. I grew up kind of upset about it in the way of "So WHAT if Mommy is kissing Santa Claus? It's Santa Claus!" Right.

[starlady]

I'm realizing that this entire question is basically an aural Rorschach test--what people hear says way more about them than it does about the song.