I ended up here from a link on oyceter's LJ, but actually the issue itself had already taken a little visit to my own LJ, hours before I saw her link ... .
I'm Jewish, and I'm participating in Yuletide for the first time.
As far as the name of the event goes, I'm not that excited: no, it's not my holiday, but when friends invite me over to decorate their Christmas tree, I don't say, "No, I can't do that, it's not my holiday." I go help them make their tree pretty, and maybe next year I invite them to a Passover seder, and they can help us celebrate the Festival of Freedom. It's good for everyone that way, yes? We all have a good time, and we all learn. So I don't see anything troublesome with writing fic to give to people at this time of year as a gift.
What happened today was this: I like to make icons. I noticed that some people were posting on the LJ Yuletide community with special Yuletide icons. So I made some for people to take and use, and one of them has a hanukiyyah - a Hanukah menorah. Because I know that I can't be the only Jewish person participating, and I thought it might be nice for some of them to be able to present that face, if they wanted. All the icons say Yuletide 2007 on them (they're here, if you want to see what they look like).
So via e-mail, I got a very polite note from someone who was worried that some people might be very offended by the hanukiyya with the words Yuletide 2007 on it.
And you know, she's right, I guess someone could be offended.
My correspondent suggested I get rid of the icon. I don't particularly want to - I like it, and I stand by my intent in creating it.
But I'm interested in hearing what others think - although I'm worried about it as well.
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I ended up here from a link on oyceter's LJ, but actually the issue itself had already taken a little visit to my own LJ, hours before I saw her link ... .
I'm Jewish, and I'm participating in Yuletide for the first time.
As far as the name of the event goes, I'm not that excited: no, it's not my holiday, but when friends invite me over to decorate their Christmas tree, I don't say, "No, I can't do that, it's not my holiday." I go help them make their tree pretty, and maybe next year I invite them to a Passover seder, and they can help us celebrate the Festival of Freedom. It's good for everyone that way, yes? We all have a good time, and we all learn. So I don't see anything troublesome with writing fic to give to people at this time of year as a gift.
What happened today was this: I like to make icons. I noticed that some people were posting on the LJ Yuletide community with special Yuletide icons. So I made some for people to take and use, and one of them has a hanukiyyah - a Hanukah menorah. Because I know that I can't be the only Jewish person participating, and I thought it might be nice for some of them to be able to present that face, if they wanted. All the icons say Yuletide 2007 on them (they're here, if you want to see what they look like).
So via e-mail, I got a very polite note from someone who was worried that some people might be very offended by the hanukiyya with the words Yuletide 2007 on it.
And you know, she's right, I guess someone could be offended.
My correspondent suggested I get rid of the icon. I don't particularly want to - I like it, and I stand by my intent in creating it.
But I'm interested in hearing what others think - although I'm worried about it as well.