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"How should feminists decorate their homes and trees for the holidays?" asks someone on Yahoo Answers Singapore. "No balls on the tree, I would think", is the answer considered the best by some admin of the section "Gender & Women's Studies" in Yahoo Answers. Some folks thought that such a question is a joke, some got annoyed and the rest entered the game and offered funny ideas - severed testicles to hang on the tree, figurines of feminists, like an Oprah made of sticks and mud, or no ornaments at all, since Christmas celebrates the birth of a male historical and religious figure and must be a boycotted by a true feminist.
Political correctness usually engenders jokes (no pun intended); it's hilarious to apply gender concepts to decorations and Christmas trees. But it's not always so funny, at least when instead of a Christmas tree there is a generic "holiday tree" meant to preserve neutrality towards all religions - or a "winter tree", as in our Communist past, with red stars instead of glass angels. It's enough anyway that globalization hurts now the aesthetics of the festive tree: we have, for example, little Santas with oblique eyes and little plastic birds with fur tails, all made in China.
But add religious fervor to political correctness and you'll have the kitschiest of the kitschy, offered by a store specialized in Christian merchandise. An ornament featuring an unborn baby with a gun - a symbol of the pro-life and patriotic duty to give birth to the future soliders of the country, the ones that will defend democracy and fight terrorism wherever the state sends them.



Well, if we talk about military-themed Christmas trinkets, there can be things that simply use the theme for creative reasons, without wanting to support any cause - like the ornaments below. The designer chose to pack them in wooden military boxes, adding fun to the offer.
And I would add even a peace dove on the top of the tree.


Vseh s Rozhdestvom!