Posted on 12/06/2016 7:30:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I wish this was a fake news satirical story, but sadly, it’s true. Liberal activists are outraged that the seasonal song Baby it’s Cold Outside should be banned because, wait for it, it promotes sexual harrassment and non-consensual sex.
It’s a movement that started a few years ago and has been taken up with more fervor and passion every Christmas season. But this season, the movement has gained steam because, according to HuffPo, a pair of songwriters have offered up alternate lyrics to make the song more politically correct, socially acceptable, and completely awful:
The duo, singer-songwriters Lydia Liza and Josiah Lemanski, told CNN that they felt that the original song was “aggressive and inappropriate,” arguing that the listener never finds out what happens to the woman in the song.
“You never figure out if she gets to go home. You never figure out if there was something in her drink. It just leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth,” said Liza.
The couple’s revised lyrics are adorably consensual, opening with “I really can’t stay” sung by Liza and “Baby, I’m fine with that” sung by Lemanski.
Most notably, when Liza sings, “I ought to say no, no, no,” Lemanksi responds with “You reserve the right to say no.”
The rest of the lyrics include a reference to Pomegranate La Croix (we’re unclear as to whether or not this flavor exists, but we’d totally drink it if it were real), as well as plans for a date at The Cheesecake Factory.
Here’s the audio for your listening displeasure:
CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE SONG
Of course, these feminists aren’t the first reactionaries to raise a concern about the racy song. One Sayyid Qutb, Islamist and father of the Muslim Brotherhood which eventually brought us Al Qaeda was scandalized by the song when he lived in the US back in the 1950s as part of a student exchange program. In his book The America I Have Seen, the Egyptian wrote:
The dance hall convulsed to the tunes on the gramophone and was full of bounding feet and seductive legs … Arms circled waists, lips met lips, chests met chests, and the atmosphere was full of passion….And the Father chose. He chose a famous American song called ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside,’ which is composed of a dialog between a boy and a girl returning from an evening date.
So the American left, with their penchant for totalitarian control over our behaviors and thoughts, have come full circle and alligned with Islamist totalitarians who wish to do the same. Symetrical, right?
Meanwhile, let’s cleanse ourselves from having to ponder the PC version of this wonderful, Frank Loesser song by observing how it was utilized in the 1949 film Neptune’s Daughter where Ricardo Montelban seduces Esther Williams. Keep watching though. Because this date rape anthem is also used by Betty Garret to seduce Red Skelton. Outrageous… absolutely outrageous. No means no, Betty!
Santa Baby, by Eartha Kitt
Santa baby, slip a sable under the tree for me
Been an awful good girl
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonightSanta baby, an auto space convertible too, light blue
I'll wait up for you, dear
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonightThink of all the fun I've missed
Think of all the fellas that I haven't kissed
Next year I could be also good
If you'll check off my Christmas listSanta honey, I want a yacht and really that's not a lot
Been an angel all year
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonightSanta cutie, there's one thing I really do need, the deed
To a platinum mine
Santa cutie, and hurry down the chimney tonightSanta baby, and fill my stocking with a duplex and checks
Sign your 'x' on the line
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonightCome and trim my Christmas tree
With some decorations bought at Tiffany
I really do believe in you
Let's see if you believe in meSanta baby, forgot to mention one little thing, a ring
I don't mean on the phone
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight
Hurry down the chimney tonight
Hurry, tonight
-PJ
Depravity I tell you. (I feel like such an old coot all of a sudden.)
It's the art of the deal, not theft. At least, it is if the parties are more or less equal in bargaining power.
In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking.
But now, God knows,
Anything goes.
In the early 1980’s if a guy stopped asking after his first “no” he would have never gotten anywhere.
I never got physical or angry, but I could be persistent.
My wife says that she was taught that a proper young lady always rebuffed the first advance.
All that being said, courting is confusing enough without getting the PC police involved.
In my world, the line between “persistent” and “rape” was physical force.
My son - who is in college now - says that they are being taught that “no means no” and that they MUST stop any kind of “persistence” at the first “no”.
Good thing that wasn’t the case when I went or he might not be here.
While we’re at it, how ‘bout ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus’?
“My stepdaughter was here during a college break a couple of Christmases ago and announced how thissong was sexist, misogynist, pro-rape, etc.”
I’d just have said “if that’s what you’re learning at college, maybe it’s time to pay your own tuition” :)
Yes, folks, in real life, people try to get each other to come inside for “coffee.”
Combined PING! and DANG!
Which makes the young women really, really mad. No wonder everybody on campus these days is miserable.
Normal people understand the difference between "forcing" and "cajoling." But liberals aren't normal.
Yeah, some people might interpret the drink as having a roofie, but really, it’s just about some nice gal employing her anti-slut defenses against an atrractive potential paramour.
Full original movie version which juxtaposes one rendition by Ricardo Montalbán and Esther Williams and another by Red Skelton and Betty Garrett with the roles reversed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFJ7ie_yGU
"Every Breath You Take" is another song about stalking.
“OTOH, that doesn’t apply when Dean Martin sings it because you know she’s just asking about how he mixes his drinks.”
That’s all it means when anybody sings it.
WHAAAAAAT?
So rutting with every female - or male,hey -— you feel like, lie squirrels in a tree, is perfectly ok. But spending time alone with a man and then leaving even when he wishes you to stay a little longer IS PROMOTING RAPE?
Flirting. Seduction. From the days before you screwed like monkeys five minutes after you met. I love that song. I wish I lived back then when there were “reputations” and gallant men trying to skirt it. How fun!!!!
“Why don’t they protest “Santa Baby” while they’re at it. Isn’t it about a woman willing to prostitute herself for rich things?”
No, because this line: “Santa baby, forgot to mention one little thing, a ring.” means that she insists on marriage.
The words ARE pretty racy. Once I actually read them I believed the song is not an appropriate Christmas song. Call me old-fashioned...
Depravity. Sheer depravity.
Dang, I miss the Dean Martin show.
I honestly think the raging lib Seth MacFarlane captures the male part perfectly with his extraordinary voice.
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