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 #1494145]

Comments

[spaiku.livejournal.com]

was i a strange child...?! i thought you were the one who would only read and was afraid of strangers. i think children are more malicious than adults want to believe.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Strangers are scary!

...Definitely adults tend to look back on childhood with rose-colored glasses, I think. Though also I think that most adults simply don't remember their childhoods that well (because most people have such poor memories).