A Christmas Story, or Baby It's Cold Outside!

   Last night, I watched "A Christmas Story".  I had always regarded it as a fun filled family film, that emphasized the family closeness of Christmases past and made the point that  when the past was reviewed through the lens of family closeness all  the little conflicts and  exasperations of family life were as nothing compared to the richness of the close life-long relationships within the nuclear family.  
   Following the  furore regarding "Baby it's Cold Outside", I thought I ought to look at some some of  the racist prejudices behind the much beloved "A Christmas Story", and lo and behold, I found it to  be as innocent as anything that a Straight White Racist could pen!  Imagine, I used to find the whole story a hilarious recounting of the minor trials and tribulations that every family dealt with as it matured, leading to the magnificent bonding that develops in some, but not all families.  Alas, that is not the way the humorless society of the troglodytes of the Left see it at all.  I am assuming that you have seen the movie.   Perhaps, this is the way they see it. 
   Early in the movie it becomes apparent that the father in this family is some sort of weirdo!   He wins a prize of a lampstand and lampshade in  the shape of a womxn's high-heeled net stocking clad leg topped by a little bit of frilly lampshade.  In addition, he insists in placing the monstrosity in the living room window, to be admired by all his Straight White Racist neighbours, presumably to humiliate his poor wife, who does not seem at all humiliated! 
   Meanwhile, said poor wife, does not hesitate to punish the poor, inveterate lying Ralphie, by sticking a block of soap in his mouth every time he is caught lying.  Such a toxic practice would surely have landed her in jail today.
   Ralphie himself is no angel.  He lies, without remorse and is potentially violent.  His life's ambition is to  have a Red Ryder Rifle, with which, as everybody knows, (even Santa Claus) an eye can easily be taken out!  When he finally rebels against a bully whose bullying he seemed to acquiesce to, he looked as though he would pound him into oblivion, had not his own mother been called to  intervene.  
   Finally, Santa Claus himself, seemed a little suspect.  Admittedly, it was near closing time in the store, but the way he talked and bumped the kids off his knee and down a chute, to get rid of them as quickly as possible, seemed to rankle of capitalistic greed.  Perhaps his time has come.
   No, I don't think this movie meets the requirements of todays empathetic, LWL,whining snowflakes!
                                                
                IT HAS TO BE BANNED !!