snowmen symbolic of xmas?

libragirl
libragirl Posts: 4,632
edited November 2007 in A Moving Train
I was curious about people's opinions on a subject...particularly jewish people. Every year we have to be super careful about what we use in terms of a theme for our Holiday party, and yes we don't dare to call it a christmas party. So anyway I was helping my boss choose invitations and I like this snowman design. She knocked it down, citing it too "christmasy" How in the heck is a snowman christmasy? I can see if he had a santa hat on or was holding a crucifix?

I don't know..maybe Im missing something. So in an effort to be so politically correct and sensitive our parties seem so boring and plain.
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    libragirl wrote:
    I was curious about people's opinions on a subject...particularly jewish people. Every year we have to be super careful about what we use in terms of a theme for our Holiday party, and yes we don't dare to call it a christmas party. So anyway I was helping my boss choose invitations and I like this snowman design. She knocked it down, citing it too "christmasy" How in the heck is a snowman christmasy? I can see if he had a santa hat on or was holding a crucifix?

    I don't know..maybe Im missing something. So in an effort to be so politically correct and sensitive our parties seem so boring and plain.
    ...
    any of the Pagan symbols... Christmas Trees, baughs of holly, snowmen, Santa, all that crap is fine.
    A snowman in the manger... not so much.
    ...
    Tell your boss that Cosmo says, 'Quit being such a Douchey McDouchebag'.
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    jews can't make snowmans????....if someone is offended by a snowman then they need a boot in the ass....;):D
  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    lol...yeah I'm not sure if I'd be able to get away with telling her that:D..although i feel like it. It's a seasonal symbol to me. I swear political correctness goes to far times. I understand you have to be sensitive to people's differences but this is just ridiculous.
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    cutback wrote:
    jews can't make snowmans????....if someone is offended by a snowman then they need a boot in the ass....;):D

    ha...ha....yeah really. Last year we had these favors that although they were cute...wasn't remotely festive. It was so lame.
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    libragirl wrote:
    lol...yeah I'm not sure if I'd be able to get away with telling her that:D..although i feel like it. It's a seasonal symbol to me. I swear political correctness goes to far times. I understand you have to be sensitive to people's differences but this is just ridiculous.
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    I know a lot of Jewish people and guess what? They're not offended by Christmas.
    The whole thing began when retailers wanted to cash in on the Jewish dollars... and the Muslim dollars... and the Hindu dollars and the VooDoo Dollars by 'including' everyone in on the black ink season between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
    Thank your local Cable News for creating a story where one didn't exist.
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    Cosmo wrote:
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    I know a lot of Jewish people and guess what? They're not offended by Christmas.
    The whole thing began when retailers wanted to cash in on the Jewish dollars... and the Muslim dollars... and the Hindu dollars and the VooDoo Dollars by 'including' everyone in on the black ink season between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
    Thank your local Cable News for creating a story where one didn't exist.


    Yeah I know a lot of jewish people who like xmas...but evidently someone at my job got offended one year when we had nutcracker favors...:rolleyes:
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    there are people that are looking to be offended......fuck 'em!

    :D
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    libragirl wrote:
    Yeah I know a lot of jewish people who like xmas...but evidently someone at my job got offended one year when we had nutcracker favors...:rolleyes:
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    I bet is WASN'T a Jewish person. Probably someone that either hates Christmas because of their personal loneliness... or they had a traumatic nutcracker accident in the shower.
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Snowman to me is just winter. I think your nemesis was stretching too far on that one.

    Snowman = snow = winter. Christmas is about eggnog, wrapping, ornaments, lights and the tree.

    A snowman has nothing to do with Christmas really from my observation.

    In fact I go so far as to say there's no direct connection. Santa never had a snowman on his staff.

    This is really the only extremely vague Christmas link there is:

    according to wiki

    "Frosty the Snowman is considered to be a Christmas song despite not mentioning Christmas at all."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frosty_the_Snowman
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  • libragirl
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    Cosmo wrote:
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    I bet is WASN'T a Jewish person. Probably someone that either hates Christmas because of their personal loneliness... or they had a traumatic nutcracker accident in the shower.


    LOL...that made me crackup....

    Yeah it could of been someone just being a jerk. People always have opinions about how stuff should be done but seem to never volunteer to help out.
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    libragirl wrote:
    LOL...that made me crackup....

    Yeah it could of been someone just being a jerk. People always have opinions about how stuff should be done but seem to never volunteer to help out.
    ...
    Besides... what does a NutCracker have to do with Jesus? They are usually painted up like fricken'... SOLDIERS.
    Unless that particuar nutcracker was a baby Jesus nutcracker.
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    Snowman to me is just winter. I think your nemesis was stretching too far on that one.

    Snowman = snow = winter. Christmas is about eggnog, wrapping, ornaments, lights and the tree.

    A snowman has nothing to do with Christmas really from my observation.

    In fact I go so far as to say there's no direct connection. Santa never had a snowman on his staff.

    This is really the only extremely vague Christmas link there is:

    according to wiki

    "Frosty the Snowman is considered to be a Christmas song despite not mentioning Christmas at all."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frosty_the_Snowman


    I think that's where they get the xmas connotation from....frosty..but still...it may be a xmas song....but it's not like it's religious.
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  • Bu2
    Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    Does it snow in the winter, where you live? Do you go out and play in the snow? Do you make snowmen on your front lawn?

    Watch out. The Politically Correct Police are now watching you....very closely.
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    Bu2 wrote:
    Does it snow in the winter, where you live? Do you go out and play in the snow? Do you make snowmen on your front lawn?

    Watch out. The Politically Correct Police are now watching you....very closely.

    Well yeah, I think that's a universal pastime no matter what your religion.
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  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    change any textual reference to snowperpeople ... snowMAN is sexist ... so ... snowperson would be next but snowperSON is also sexist so ... it should be called snowperpeople ...

    :)
  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,234
    Cosmo wrote:
    or they had a traumatic nutcracker accident in the shower.
    ouch!!! :eek:

    and I agree with the others....a snowman is not really a symbol of christmas, it's a symbol of winter

    and I had to use your other statement in my sig.....that made me laugh more than anything I've read in the Pit before.....
  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    polaris wrote:
    change any textual reference to snowperpeople ... snowMAN is sexist ... so ... snowperson would be next but snowperSON is also sexist so ... it should be called snowperpeople ...

    :)

    true... I don't want to imply that snow is exclusively one gender....:p
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  • flask0987
    flask0987 Posts: 12
    Libragirl, you work with some morons...
  • chopitdown
    chopitdown Posts: 2,222
    libragirl wrote:
    I was curious about people's opinions on a subject...particularly jewish people. Every year we have to be super careful about what we use in terms of a theme for our Holiday party, and yes we don't dare to call it a christmas party. So anyway I was helping my boss choose invitations and I like this snowman design. She knocked it down, citing it too "christmasy" How in the heck is a snowman christmasy? I can see if he had a santa hat on or was holding a crucifix?

    I don't know..maybe Im missing something. So in an effort to be so politically correct and sensitive our parties seem so boring and plain.

    so you have a holiday party in winter and you can't use anything that has to do with winter? last I checked you can make a snowman at any point (as long as it's good snow), not just around christmas. How bout mistletoe on a belt buckle on the snowman that at least won't offend the non-religious.
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  • libragirl
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    chopitdown wrote:
    so you have a holiday party in winter and you can't use anything that has to do with winter? last I checked you can make a snowman at any point (as long as it's good snow), not just around christmas. How bout mistletoe on a belt buckle on the snowman that at least won't offend the non-religious.

    Yeah it makes no sense...People are convinced snowmen symbolic of xmas. Oh forget the mistletoe....That's also a no...no...
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