Happy St Nicholas Day!
There are many legends about the man who would become Santa Claus, but one of the most common is that Nicholas of Myra, a faithful and well-off leader in the church, heard of three young girls who were being "married unfavorably" ...
...(i.e. sold into sexual slavery under the guise of marriage) because they had no dowries. He secretly left money at their father's house in the middle of the night, sparing them from their fate.
There's also a legend that he slapped the famous heretic Arius in the face for denying the divinity of Christ, but that one's much less historically probable.
All that to say, if you treat women as sexual objects rather than human beings, if you've cheered when a child actress "finally" turns 18, if you shame sex workers but happily partake in what they produce...

Santa is going to suckerpunch you.

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