Posted on 12/05/2018 6:25:04 PM PST by Coleus
The holidays are here, which means it’s time to debate whether or not the lyrics to “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” are creepy or just crappy and annoying.
According to CNN, Star 102, WDOK-FM, a Cleveland Christmas radio station has decided it won’t be playing “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” this year. The 74-year-old song by “Guys and Dolls” writer Frank Loesser is also known on Urban Dictionary as the “Christmas Date Rape Song.”
On the station’s website, radio host Glenn Anderson explained that the song is no longer appropriate for #MeToo era:
“Now, I do realize that when the song was written in 1944, it was a different time, but now while reading it, it seems very manipulative and wrong,” he wrote.
“The world we live in is extra sensitive now, and people get easily offended, but in a world where #MeToo has finally given women the voice they deserve, the song has no place.”
And because it wouldn’t be Christmas without a little irrational shouting about how things were better a long time ago but now are different and awful, listeners flocked to Facebook in order to be publicly offended by how easily offended people are these days:
“I will not be listening to this station anymore myself if they give in to sensitive people,” one woman wrote. “The song has been out there for a long time and now it offends people. Come on. This is getting out of hand with all the people that are offended by stuff.”
Scrapping traditional songs about cold-weather boning. Another fallen monument in the war on Christmas.
What sort of ridiculous blather is this? I’ve heard that song all my life (73 years), and it is neither a “Christmas Song”, and is definitely NOT a Christmas “CAROL”.
IF it was offensive to women, it would have certainly been banned in 1945 when it came out. However, over the years I’ve seen countless, famous, singers and duets perform the song on TV, and the radio.
I was even a radio DJ for 15 years in my youth, and had occasion to play the song now and again, and never...NEVER...received a complaint from the listeners.
IF one has the attention span to read the lyrics, and one is not being press for a “subject” for a stupid opp ed column, they would see that the female character in the song VOLUNTARILY stopped by the guys place.
Is the author of this piece so stupid as to try and make a #MeeToo “victim” out of the lady? People - namely women - running around on our public streets dressed as “vaginas” and wearing “pussy hats”, and this stupid info-babe wants to bitch about a 73 year old song?
She no doubt joins in the “poor coyote” fans of the “Roadrunner” cartoons, the “rapist” nature of “Prince Charming” for kissing “Snow White” without permission, and the bullying of poor “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”.
It becomes more and more apparent everyday that the chosen career field for all maladjusted, and spoiled children, is in the media. They all seem to have an “axe” to grind with the world for attentions’ sake.
They see themselves as “junior-grade” Hollywood stars in training, sucking up attention and spouting a “Ocasio-Cortez” hubris for being “smart”.
One day, they’ll wind up like Megyn Kelly, whose attitude and self-worship got her to status: “Jobless”.
People just don’t continue to watch “assholes”...right Acosta?
So sad. I love this song. There is no sex in the song. She can leave any time she wants. It would not be a sweet flirtatious winter classic song if he said “good night, here’s your taxi.”
“All I Want For Christmas Is You”
A Denver program mgr's first reaction was to suspend playing it. This was met with criticism from local talk-show hosts, so his next step was to conduct a listener poll to decide whether "Baby, It's Cold Outside" would stay or go.
That took some nerve, I'm sure. But the results of the poll are reassuring to those of us who remain bitter clingers to tradition, even if a song has no relation to Christmas. For that matter, neither do many other "holiday" tunes, many of which were written by non-Christians.
“Respondents voted 95% in favor of us keeping the song as part of KOSI 101.1’s tradition of playing all of your holiday favorites . .. "
Radio is in stiff competition with Sirius/XM and the internet (e.g. iHeart) for audience. It would be a great loss to ordinary people if a handful of SJW's were to succeed in deballing what remains of local broadcasting. They've already done that to assorted retailers (Target, WalMart, Dick's Sporting Goods) by threatening boycotts if they don't comply. Radio stations are licensed by the FCC, and that can work both ways, for and against. Right now, we have a pro-business FCC, and let's hope it stays that way.
More station managers need to grow a backbone and politely refuse to go all-out PC when confronted by these malcontents.
“It is NOT a classic Christmas carol.”
Exactly, it just happens to mention snow.
Try this version...
Red Skelton wants to leave, but Betty Garret sings “baby its cold outside” to get him to stay...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHYqKEAehPU&pbjreload=10
I take it STANDING ON THE CORNER WATCHING ALL THE GIRLS GO BY will soon follow.
Brother you can’t go to jail for what you’re thinking
Or for that woo look in your eye
Standing on the corner watching all the girls
Watching all the girls, watching all the girls go by..
what is wrong with me that I didn’t realize this debauchery...
Anerica has gone mad.
If the progs are complaining about this then we may have reached peak grievance.
The song is a representation of a chaste girl trying to sweetly tell a guy no.
I was trying to download a ring-tone and I accidentally got a hip-hop song with the N-word complete with frequent references to doing nasty stuff to women which is truly criminal. It was amazing how they were able to pack so many truly offending words in just one ring-tone. Now, think of that song while you watch this rendition of the Christmas song in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFJ7ie_yGU
Maybe, but good old Uncle Bill would probably skip most of the sweet talk and go straight for the drugs.
I don't think that's what is implied in the song. If it is, I find it hard to believe that no one picked up on it for 70 years and after about two-score cover versions. There's even a Lawrence Welk version of this: they kept the part about her agreeing to half a drink more, but took out her having another cigarette. Besides, I think the woman wants to stay --she had had a good time and his persuasion was also working-- and her objections to the man are also her thinking out loud about the reasons she shouldn't stay. "What's in this drink?" was apparently a common expression in the 40s used when people wanted to blame their actions on having had too strong a drink or too much of it.
I like the song, especially Dean Martin's version, because I find the style interesting. I could get through Christmas without it, though, because it is passes as a Christmas song only because the popular observation of Christmas has become more and more centered on winter party time and less and less centered on --well--Christ.
There were far fewer rapes, far fewer suicides, far fewer divorces and far fewer children raised in broken homes when that song was written.
Would but that we could return to such days...
This is just all about destroying America and all Americana in order to bring in “diversity” and communism.
He who controls the language controls the unbiverse.
Don’t fall for this crap. See a liberal, say something.
Yes. I do not promote fornication, but what you say is the plain truth.
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