Christmas gift for a Man
is harder then seeing Santa Claus
Let me say this plainly now, and not be misunderstood: there is no
ideal Christmas gift for a man. They may tell you that a
Christmas gift for a man is a pocket knife, or a
new tie, or a war book, but all of that is hogwash. The only
perfect Christmas gift for a man is the gift that man wants, and
men are as different from each other as they are from women or
teenagers.
I am sick of the marketing of Christmas, and I bet
that you are as well by now. Oh, I know, people have talked to
death about commercialism and consumer ism and such, but these are
not the things that anger me the very most. No, not at all. What
angers me most is the way that our rigid roles are reinforced by
the ways that people market their Christmas gift ideas. This, they
will say, is the right Christmas gift for a man, that the right
Christmas gift for a woman, and the other, the perfect Christmas
gift for a teenager – as if the whole personality of someone could
come down simply to their gender and age.
Of course, I know that the companies market
Christmas gifts for a man partly as a way to make things easy for
the consumer. They want to put things that men usually want all
together, so that when someone does go out and look for a Christmas
gift for a man, they will see them all in one section. But beyond
that, I think that the system of having men's Christmas gifts and
women's Christmas gifts has a more sinister function. I think that
they do it all to cement their hold over us. If a Christmas gift
for a man is a pocket knife or a nice watch, then every year you
have to buy all of the men in your life one of these things. And so
on.
Try this Christmas gift for a male.
It is really every bit as sinister as all that, and
I am not joking. There are people who spend years thinking about
how to best market to a group of people, and this is how they
think. They will try to make everyone buy the most expensive
Christmas gift for a man that they can, and that way they will make
more money. And money is, of course, what the holiday is all about
for these companies.
Being a male I would say my favorite Christmas gift
for a man would be a gift certificate at a department store so I
can pick out my own gift. Maybe this is the best Christmas gift for
any man.
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