Hidden Meaning of a Christmas Carol

For the past three weeks or so, I have been pretty much listening every evening to Christmas carols on the radio. My two favorite tunes are "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas" composed by Robert Meredith Willson, and "Christmas Canon Rock" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

So, you ask what about tunes that I don't like or may find a bit unsettling? Well, there is one. While listening to "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", I suddenly realized something. Something that disturbed me. Those other eight reindeers mentioned in the song were really cruel. They were a clique; a mean, bullying clique. Shame on Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder and Blitzen. And I mean Shame on you!!!.

Making fun of poor Rudolph, and refusing to let him play with them; that's just wrong. And come one, eight-to-one is not a fair match-up. I mean, I'm not sure what kind of reindeer games Rudolph was left out from; but, no matter how dumb it may seem, Rudolph should not have been excluded. It's just not right...I thought animals had a better sense than humans to be less psychologically cruel, but it seems animals have their own form of junior high. Rudolph was probably a kind, soft-spoken and sensitive reindeer, who was very lonely, and wished that he had been born of another species...like a bird maybe.

But what I really can't believe is that I used to sing this song when I was in kindergarten...it was in one of my nursery rhyme tapes. And only today I realized the hidden meaning.

Oh, and those eight reindeers being all nice to Rudolph after Santa Claus asked him to guide his sleigh is totally FAKE. I hope Rudolph saw through their false claims. They just wanted to be invited to guide the sleigh with Rudolph. I am sure at the first opportunity, they would push Rudolph off a roof, the moment Santa Claus turned his back or went down a chimney. Anyway, so that's my interpretation of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."