Posted on 12/04/2018 6:58:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
An inveterate fan of Christmas music, I added to my Sirius presets the Hallmark Radio Channel -- Channel 70, if you are looking -- the day after Thanksgiving. I have been rotating this channel, which plays standards from the American songbook, with a Christian station that features more traditional Christian music.
I was pleased to hear that the Hallmark Channel continues to play the slightly naughty, 1949, call-and-response classic, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” Hallmark, in fact, may very well play this song in its multiple versions more than any other.
Composed by Frank Loesser of “Guys and Dolls” fame, “Baby” tells the story in alternating voices of a young woman who wishes half-heartedly to head home to preserve her reputation and a young man who leans on her to remain with him. “I really can’t stay,” she sings. “Baby, it’s cold outside,” he replies as he wears down her defenses and ultimately persuades her to stay.
I was aware that feminist Grinches did not much like the song. I had heard the drumbeat, which, Mary Nahorniak tells us in a USA Today article, has been “getting too loud to ignore.” Like many other neo-Victorians in the feminist third wave, Nahorniak sees the song as a symptom of the “the systemic sexual predation that pervades every corner of society.” We hear this argument every day. It is the kind of argument -- one not without some merit -- that got the French skunk Pepe Le Pew kicked off the Warner Brothers’ lot.
What I did not know until a friend informed me is that feminists are not the only ones in the great, unwieldy multicultural coalition who object to “Baby.”
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The jihadis wouldn’t have minded if the aggressor was a goat.
Baby It’s Cold Outside - Betty Garrett and Red Skelton:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpDLpz88V-I
The discussion can cut both ways...
Buster Poindexter (David Johansen) sang it with Sigourney Weaver on SNL on October 11, 1986.
I guess Sigourney didn’t realize she was condoning sexual assault.
I went to a moms night out last year; made a winter outdoor sign that says Baby its cold outside. Most of us chose that quote; its a cute line from a catchy song.
People really need to lighten up.
The feminists have their knickers in a twist over this decades old song yet are silent on female genital mutilation ,the subjugation of women and gays being pushed off buildings being promulgated by Muslim jihadis
DU, as usual, has it’s knickers in a twist over this.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211496724
Star Wars - Luke and Leia on the Ice Planet
- Baby It’s Cold Outside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkyCww1LLYs
Its actually about the struggle of a strong, feminist woman fighting against the patriarchy for her freedom from social and sexual repression.
There. I fixed it for the snowflakes.
Jihadi’s rally against it simply because the guy tries to convince the woman to stay and have sex... in their world you just take it and don’t give a damn if she wants it or not.. you don’t bother trying to convince them.
Fork islam
It is hanging solo not Luke.
Darn autocorrect,. That was Han.
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Betty Garrett and Red Skelton were supporting actors in the same movie - “Neptune’s Daughter”, with Ricardo Montalbon and Esther Williams. Both versions were featured in the same movie.
Ah, she plays hard to get...no?
Off camera a voice is heard .... “the plane, boss, the plane.”
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