Posted on 12/05/2018 11:55:55 PM PST by dennisw
Commentary: Canada's CBC is the latest radio outlet to ban "Baby" as offensive. Who to believe — radio programmers, or actual feminists? There is one group, and one group only, that should be crusading against the performance of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” in public: vicious maiden aunts. These treacherous protectors of niece-ly chastity have no coalition in 2018, so far as we’ve heard. (Speak up and say your piece if you’re out there, Auntie Lame Society.). So the campaign against Frank Loesser’s 1940s classic has been left to others — not so much feminists, as rumored, since most who’ve thought much about the song in context at all know that “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” was actually a witty, ahead-of-its-time avowal of women owning their own sexual agency.
No, the would-be ban is being led by that most deeply progressive group of all: adult-contemporary radio programmers. A handful of them, at least, have decided it’s time to go out for a nice holiday troll by declaring “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” dead to them… followed by the inevitable online poll that will lead to a reversal and reinstatement. We can only hope some of them will stick to their guns and maintain the boycott: It’s been far too long since radio pulled any Beatles- or Dixie Chicks-smashing stunts; what could be more heartwarming for the holidays than a nice community bonfire with AC listeners burning their Michael Bublé/Idina Menzel duets?
Hinky Dinky Parlez Vous (Mademoiselle from Armentieres) was considered controversial back in the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfvrrSOkJ3o
I never liked the song, don’t really like anything “Broadway”, but it is a part of Americana, and thus doomed.
Flush American culture down the memory hole making the coming communist regime a little less undesirable is the aim.
The crackpot Ayatollah Khomeini said — There is no humor in Islam. These days we have these deranged and brainwashed in college nutters who are very similar to that long bearded psycho killer. He had thousands executed.
Turns out that Frank Loesser who I was not familiar with was quite a prolific guy!
Truth! And a big like for your posts 38-39.
Why does everyone have to bow down to the perpetually offended?
My Friends are not PC. PC people are not my Friends.
Nor do you hear Cher’s hit, “Half Breed”.
These NPCs are a cancer on society. This song is not about date rape, it’s a fun banter between a man and a women with the man pleading with the woman to stay a little longer and the women hesitating then agreeing. He doesn’t slip her a roofie, he doesn’t force her to stay, none of that. It’s playful on both parts. If you can turn that into fake outrage, then you can turn anything into it. And they do. It’s a systematic dismantling of western society that they’re after.
Banning the song is absurd, but I have always been annoyed by its inclusion among Holiday songs. This morning I also heard “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” on Sirius’ Holiday channel. It does not belong either, IMO.
The author is arguing that it’s not rapey, because the only reason she wants to get home is because of social concerns about her respectability. Well, that was EXACTLY the attitude that most predators had: she really WANTS to; she only SAYS she doesn’t because she’s afraid of what people think. Of course, her choice to weight societal judgment is hers to make, and can’t be invalidated. Let alone that those concerns may not merely be external: the song is quite wrong in its suggestion that date-rape drugs weren’t a worry, and of course, the matters of birth control, sexually-transmitted disease, personal morality, the preservation of virginity, etc.
But there is a perfectly non-rapey interpretation that this touches on, that he’s NOT pressuring her for to go all the way, merely to take the excuse nature has given her to not worry about getting home for the sake of “respectability.” He’s arguing, “Look no-one’s going to expect you to drive home in this.” In this context, “Hey, what’s in this drink” isn’t about roofies (or Spanish Fly, or legendary date-rape drugs), but simply her way of starting to concur with him: “The alcohol is hitting me harder than I expected. I should drive drunk!”
If they were actually going to have sex, certain lines don’t make sense. “My maiden aunt’s mind is vicious” implies that he maiden aunt’s would think they did more than they’re doing. Lastly, of course, if this is all concern about intercourse, they could have sex and then have her go home. No, it’s about making out.
*I should NOT drive drunk.
Then there's Winter Wonderland, etc.
>>This idiocy will all blow over once TWO GUYS record this song.
no it won’t, the furor will then be to attack the “uptight” “homophobe” who rejects the advances of the male lead.
Replace it with hip hop. Then we could sing about bitches, hoes and big asses...
1,2,3, red light
Careful there, someone might take you up on that offer :P
It does kind of make me wonder if Tim Cook has banned the song from iTunes yet. Would seem to fit the MO these days.
That duet is creepy.
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