No, not parody / comedy images of Santa doing Mrs. Claus or banging the cute elves or whatever. Mainstream images stuck up all over, in businesses’ windows, on tasteless neighbors’ apartment doors.
I don’t care for any of those cardboard cutouts (turkeys and pilgrims for Thanksgiving, hearts and cupids for Valentine’s, ghosts and witches for halloween, etc);
… and I don’t have very good associations with Santa Claus (“oh the guy the adults LIED to me about when I was a tiny kid” / “along with clowns and underpaid guys wearing overstuffed fuzzy animal costumes, something I’m SUPPOSED to like 'cuz I’m a kid, crreeeepy”).
So it’s no huge surprise that those cardboard cutouts of Santa Claus would not appeal to me. But damn, when did they start depicting the old fraud as… oh hell.
People’s Exhibit #1 (four examples; didn’t have to look hard to find 'em either)
a) he’s smirking
b) his lips and tongue are marachino-cherry red. Fire engine red. Fuck-me lipstick red.
c) the reason I know what color his tongue is is that he’s STICKING IT OUT at me.
d) he’s either got really really shiny lip balm on or he’s just finished licking his lips. guess that’s why he’s sticking his tongue out
By all means tell me if you think there’s something wrong with how I perceive things, that these images look like innocently festive holiday symbolks to you. But IS IT, is it just me, or is this seriously dis-fucking-'sgusting?
I think I’d be less disturbed if they just went ahead and portrayed Santa with his shirt hoisted up to show his nipples and his schlong hanging out over the top of his trousers.
All these cutouts look just like the ones my mom had when I was a little kid… 20 years ago. So basically, you waited at least twenty years to whine that sometimes when people draw Santa they draw him with big lips.
I don’t see it either. I was waiting for the Santa to say or do something creepy in the video but nothing happened. This OP isn’t a parody itself, is it?
I think it’s the tongue thing. Why the fuck is he portrayed sticking his tongue out? When did that start? Has it always been that way and I just noticed?
“His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow.”
You can’t really make a fair comparison to a bow if you can’t see the lips. And being stuck in all that facial hair makes that a challenge. The artists are just working within the limits that Mr. Moore (or whoever) set for them.
Yeeeeaaaah. I think that’s just you, dude. Those look like pretty standard old-fashioned-y Santas to me. I have to admit, though, the tongue thing is a little weird. I’d never noticed it before, either. He can’t just have an open-mouthed smile like a normal person?
I thought it was going to be a conversatyion about this picture - a bit small, but you might be able to make out the hilariously inappropriate double meaning.
Unless my friends and I are far more deviant than we thought.
