Just when you thought the political correctness craze that started in this country some time in the 1990’s was over, here comes another ridiculous example of people being stupid, while in the process trying to indirectly destroy yet another Christmas tradition.

Santas warned ‘ho ho ho’ offensive to women
Wed Nov 14, 9:45 PM ET

Santas in Australia’s largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas’s traditional “ho ho ho” greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday.

Sydney’s Santa Clauses have instead been instructed to say “ha ha ha” instead, the Daily Telegraph reported.

One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use “ho ho ho” because it could frighten children and was too close to “ho”, a US slang term for prostitute.

“Gimme a break,” said Julie Gale, who runs the campaign against sexualising children called Kids Free 2B Kids.

“We are talking about little kids who do not understand that “ho, ho, ho” has any other connotation and nor should they,” she told the Telegraph.

“Leave Santa alone.”

A local spokesman for the US-based Westaff recruitment firm said it was “misleading” to say the company had banned Santa’s traditional greeting and it was being left up to the discretion of the individual Santa himself.

God, I hate political correctness. I don’t like racism at all but this constant big-brother-like monitoring of every little thing we say in fear of possibly offending someone is out of control. This particular instance reeks to me of an over-zealous feminist movement but whatever the case, it’s just stupid.

Guess what people: some words have two meanings. HO in reference to laughing was around long before Don Imus got sacked for saying it on the air. Ho is also the name of the recently deceased Hawaiian singer, Don Ho, not to mention the last name of a zillion Asian people. Should I not mention their names around the office? When I work in the garden, I sometimes use a hoe. Perhaps we should change the name of that particular garden tool to “dirt-pusher” or something so as not to offend the sluts of the world… which brings me to another point…

WHY should women be offended by the word HO. Shouldn’t only a small subsection of them be offended? Namely, the whores of the world. I mean, can’t we just wait until all the “ladies of the evening” rise up in horror at this blatant attack on their moral character? Please.

In this country we’ve reached the point where we can’t go up to someone and say “Merry Christmas” anymore for fear that they might be offended, and to me that’s just sad. In the old days, the receiving party might just simply say, “Oh, I don’t do Christmas but thanks!” and walk away a little happier because someone thought enough to wish them a Merry ANYTHING AT ALL. Now, if you get your Holiday greeting wrong, you’re liable to get a knife stuck in you. Or worse yet, sued.

Offending people is not against the law. Get some thicker skin. If you are a woman and you’re offended by a fat man in a red suit laughing - you’ve got bigger problems than you think.

Merry Fucking Christmas.