There's a growing movement by some feminists to alter what has been a traditional Christmas theme for many decades. It has even been circulating on the Internet, but in a good-natured way. It has to do with Santa's reindeer. You know, Comet and Cupid, Donner and Blitzen, et al. Even Rudolph, that cherry-nosed ruminant that Claus uses on foggy Christmas Eves, has come into question. And technically, though I hate to admit it, the questioning women are right.

You see, reindeer are a member of the deer family, all of which see the males grow a set of antlers, starting in the spring, and normally shedding them in early winter. But unlike other deer, reindeer and their kissin' cousins, caribou, see both males and females grow antlers. However - and here's the problem - the females retain their antlers until the following summer, presumably to protect their newborn calves from predators. So the feminists' claim is that all those eight reindeer (we assume Vixen is female) hauling Santa's heavy sled must be females, since males would have shed their antlers by Christmas.