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The Castration of the Father in the Christmas Movies
There is a way in which Rudolph's difference is racialized and it is also like stigmatized as a disability right. The impossibility of reindeer society in the movie being like oriented around this difference like it can't have it so we'll we'll get to this later but that's not just a stigmatized difference it actually becomes a bit of a liability because they're chased by an abominable snow monster attracted to Rudolph's red nose. They both sing "Why am I just a misfit might be Herme who sings it first and then Rudolph sings it independently second" It's very clear what's what's at stake in that moment, she says.