Context: I did my entire masters degree on ghost stories, specifically The Woman in Black, one opening set entirely around Christmas Eve, basically this is my own personal ghost story nerd rant
Okay I won’t go too hard on her whole pointless ramble about the history of ghost stories and Christmas because 1) there are tones of scholars who have far better summaries of the connection and 2) she says next to nothing but that the *tradition* doesn’t fit *her* idea of Christmas (Ruby get over yourself*) only to then say that the locked room mysteries were the closest thing to a ghost story in her collection, I’m sorry what? Why can’t she just read A Christmas Carol and I’m absolutely sure she’s had Woman in Black in her collection before, yes she may have unhauled it fair enough but you’re telling me there isn’t any kind of ghost story across her two bookshelves and that whole room of books in her house, yeah no
*on watching more of the video she does this soooo much, like the Christmas pudding thing she says “oh well *i* think they’re disgusting so I think people keep getting them more as a tradition than that *they* actually like them