Rebrand Santa
Should be a protest on the West Coast coming soon.
Some say it's time for a female or gender-neutral Santa, survey reveals
Posted: Dec 14 2018 09:53AM EST
WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - Will the future face of Christmas be gender-neutral? According to a new survey -- some say yes! The survey, conducted by logo design company GraphicSprings, asked 400 people for suggestions on how to 'rebrand' Santa to make him more modern.
The company says some of the most popular responses, like should Santa go on a diet or should he carry an iPhone, were then voted on by 4000 respondents across the U.K. and the U.S.
One of the most interesting questions was, if you could 'rebrand' Santa for modern society, what gender would he be?
Over 70 percent said they would prefer to see Santa remain a male. But almost 28 percent said they would like Santa to be 'rebranded' as female or gender-neutral.
FOX 5 reported on this story from Washington.
Some say it's time for a female or gender-neutral Santa, survey reveals
Posted: Dec 14 2018 09:53AM EST
WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - Will the future face of Christmas be gender-neutral? According to a new survey -- some say yes! The survey, conducted by logo design company GraphicSprings, asked 400 people for suggestions on how to 'rebrand' Santa to make him more modern.
The company says some of the most popular responses, like should Santa go on a diet or should he carry an iPhone, were then voted on by 4000 respondents across the U.K. and the U.S.
One of the most interesting questions was, if you could 'rebrand' Santa for modern society, what gender would he be?
Over 70 percent said they would prefer to see Santa remain a male. But almost 28 percent said they would like Santa to be 'rebranded' as female or gender-neutral.
FOX 5 reported on this story from Washington.
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Santa should just wear Mrs. Clauses dress.... 0 -
how FKN stupid and destructive to our society to allow this CHIT 0 -
quote:Originally posted by ltcdoty
Santa should just wear Mrs. Clauses dress....
Back in the day the robe did make dude look more like a lady.
So start with something easy and rework god to a female roll, too? What was I watching on youtube? Something about a female pope. Something 20th. John/Joan the 20th?
Also when can men start birthing babies?0 -
just leave the Easter bunny alone [:D][:D] 
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quote:Originally posted by spasmcreek
how FKN stupid and destructive to our society to allow this CHIT
Washington State. No wonder they have screwed up gun laws....0 -
How He has changed over the years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3RkR6RdkzQy4Xgyhh7Dkxdz/merry-makeovers-santa-claus-changing-style-through-the-years0 -
Many years ago when I saw momma kissing Santa Clause, I may have had a stroke if Santa had been a female!![:0] 0 -
Runner, you nailed this post[:)][:D][8D] 0 -
Good grief. 0 -
This cr%% isn't going to end in my lifetime. I wish you young guys good luck. I predict the next target will be the tooth fairy. I can't see that ending well. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by cbxjeff
This cr%% isn't going to end in my lifetime. I wish you young guys good luck. I predict the next target will be the tooth fairy. I can't see that ending well.
To late.
quote:Tooth Fairy Site Angers Anti-Commercialism Group
By Brooks Barnes
July 28, 2013
LOS ANGELES ? The Real Tooth Fairies have encountered a pair of fangs.
The advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood typically goes after the likes of Disney and McDonald?s, but its newest crusade centers on an unusually tiny company: TheRealToothFairies.com.
Aimed at girls 5 to 10 years old, the site sells themed merchandise (lost tooth organizer, $12.99) and offers games meant to promote kindness. For a fee, users can enter a role-playing world.
In a July 16 news release and Huffington Post column, the director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Susan Linn, criticized the Web company for what she termed its ?sexualized? fairies, whom she found to be ?largely preoccupied with appearance, shopping, boyfriends ? and leg hair!?
Ms. Linn argued that exploiting a childhood institution was particularly crass.
But what made her really angry was an investor video she discovered in the recesses of the Web.
Prepared by the start-up for nonpublic use, the video discusses revenue opportunities associated with lost teeth, emphasizing the number of baby teeth that girls lose annually, about 200 million. ?And biology guarantees that will never stop,? a voice says.
TheRealToothFairies.com had YouTube remove the video, and hoped to move on. The site?s founder, Marilyn Bollinger, a North Carolina social worker and children?s book author, did not want to discuss the video when reached by telephone.
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?Our focus is on the positive,? she said. ?We have such a sweet, sweet brand. We hear from parents that we?re making a lot of happy memories.?
But moving on can be difficult in the Internet age.
Last week, Ms. Linn kept up the attack on Twitter and Facebook, nudging bloggers and the news media to pay attention. She noted, for instance, that a shorter version of the video appears on the investment site Gust.com.
Her campaign might seem akin to shooting a flea with a cannon. Ms. Linn conceded that it was unusual for her organization to go after a start-up, but she said that the site was focused on growth, and that the stature of the people involved with it required her to take the site seriously.
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Ms. Bollinger?s husband, Howard, a former Hasbro executive who is the start-up?s chief financial officer, and Paul Yanover, a former Disney executive and now president of Fandango.com, appeared in the video.
A spokesman for Mr. Yanover said he only had a brief consulting role and no longer had anything to do with the site.0 -
Washington for Santa.. Kalifornia for the tooth fairy... 0 -
All is lost, grumpygy. 0 -
Santa Claus is a symbol of a real person that lived back in the third century. He, and I reiterate he was a Catholic monk that gave away his riches that inherited to the poor as he encountered them.
Now how are you going to portray a man as a woman?.... If they did that to me, I would be pretty upset. Santa Claus is a man, was man in real life and I always will be a man0 -
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This is what happens when you let the lunatics run the asylum...What in the hell do these people have against tradition? 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Arby
This is what happens when you let the lunatics run the asylum...What in the hell do these people have against tradition?
Or fact. Saint Nicholas was a man...0 -
quote:Originally posted by spasmcreek
how FKN stupid and destructive to our society to allow this CHIT
Yep! "We're saying Merry Christmas again" Donald J Trump quote.
DEMOCRATs were incensed over POTUS Trumps words.0
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