Essay On Santa Being A Woman

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“Crash”! Sorry that was Santa coming down the chimney! At Macy’s department store in New York City, people think that Santa should be a man not a woman. The problem is that at Macy’s Department store they hired a woman not a man and no one suspected it. They hired her to be Santa at this year’s holiday shopping center. The reason why they hired her is because they didn’t have enough men to apply for the job. Customers were angry and said that they would never shop there again. There were five women hired for the job. My opinion on Santa being a girl is that only men should be allowed to be Santa.

The reason why I say no to santa being a woman is because it has been a tradition that has been held for 100’s of years since the third century. If I ever saw …show more content…

If children start to cry and hear Erica Goples voice then they will start to think that Santa isn’t real. If children heard Santa in a womanly voice then it could ruin their Christmas. Also, if a child doesn’t think that Santa isn’t real then they could go around to other people telling them that Santa isn’t real. If they go around telling other people that Santa isn’t real then that could ruin someone else’s Christmas. And, in the the story A Secret Santa Into Her Role even said that kids could get scared from her voice and think that Santa isn’t real.

My last and final reason why I think Santa shouldn’t be a woman is because kids could get scared. If kids get scared then Erica Gopel said that she talks in her regular voice.” But kids go up to her and they say I know you're not the real Santa but I know that you work for him”. If I were a kid and I heard Santa talking as a woman I would scream my butt off. I also think that if kids saw Santa as a woman they wouldn't want to go back to tell Santa what they want for

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