She decides, instead, to be the wind beneath his sleigh. I couldn’t, but I could!” Here she knows she could be Santa on this day, but realizes the importance of men feeling needed. Claus dresses up in Santa’s suit and proclaims, “I could. In fact, my favorite scene is the one in which Ms. While there is no surprise how much women contribute to our holiday traditions and men’s careers, I thought the story took a gutsy twist in showing that Santa is merely a figurehead. Likely, the focus on the emotional intelligence of even girl children is meant to invoke women’s emotional superiority as derived from an identification with the mother-nurturer. It begins to snow in Southtown and, inspired, the children break their piggy banks to send gifts and cards to Santa saying “Let’s give Santa a Merry Christmas.” The movie takes an artistic twist to a wonderful cover of Elvis’ “Blue Christmas” by a child and spends a great bit of time on one mindful little girl and the construction of her Christmas card for Santa. This time the emotion work is done by their mother, Mother Nature, who steps in to get her sons to stop the feud for just one day. They illustrate to the audience the pettiness of male-typical competitiveness. The brothers have divided up the country and fight over of where it can be warm and mild or cold and snowy. Southtown is controlled by Snow Miser, brother of Heat Miser. The trick is to inspire the Christmas spirit by making it snow in Southtown, a town where, like my home region of Central Texas (I am in shorts and a tank as I type), it never snows. Recognizing that masculinity is so fragile, she sends two elves and Vixen to find evidence that Christmas won’t be Christmas without Santa. Claus sets forth a plan to get Santa out of bed. As the true socio-emotional leader of all things Christmas, Ms. So much so that he decides to just call off Christmas altogether. The story begins in the North Pole with Santa getting a man cold and feeling underappreciated. In fact, I expect this movie to have most people redder than a Starbucks Satan Sipper for its cautionary tale of the indispensability of women’s emotional labor and uncelebrated ingenuity. While I am fairly certain A Year Without a Santa Claus will not be receiving an Oscar this year, I do believe it will be a future cult Christmas classic particularly for your radical feminist friends.
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