Every holiday season the song “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is one of the most popular songs played. AND IT IS PLAYED EVERYWHERE. On the radio, in stores, restaurants, and even church Christmas parties. But in light of all the recent allegations of men sexually harassing and abusing women; as well as the revival of the “Me Too” Campaign, I had to ask myself why?
Am I the only one who has ever listened to this song and thought, “Seriously, this is a straight up date rape song!”
Think about it, this chick is telling this man over and over no! Where are the No means no feminnazi’s, (oops I mean feminist) sticking up for this woman? How many times and ways can you say no before it gets in his head?
Okay, so I get it. It was 1944. Men could get away with putting date rape drugs in a woman’s drink and charming his way into a woman’s drawers while she’s inebriated, write a song about doing, and get paid a lot of money. But it’s 2017. C’MON!”
I like the way writer J.C. Bourque puts it.
I was just starting to read when the first words of that disgusting celebration of date rape seared my sensibilities: ‘I really can’t stay (but baby, it’s cold outside). J.C. Bourque (Click this link to read full article) I was deep into a review copy of the forthcoming book “How to Ruin Everything: The Ultimate Guide to Political Correctness, Virtue Signaling and Victimization,” when The Song came up on my Amazon Echo. “Alexa,” I screamed, “turn off that misogynistic piece of patriarchal, rape-baiting trash immediately!”“….huh, what’s that? Uh huh…so you are telling me that there are a lot of misogynistic songs like this still played on the radio and purchased by women?”
Shoot, you right. You right! But aren’t those STUPID women, who hopefully don’t know any better? This doggone song is sung by, played by, and purchased by grown women and men who should know better. This stupid song has become a dang on holiday icon. A Christmas staple if you will. I just want to know how it happened. Take a look at the lyrics for yourself below if you don’t believe me.
Lyrics to “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”written
by Frank Loesser 1944
She-I really can’t stay –
Him-Baby it’s cold outside
She-I’ve got to go away –
Him-Baby it’s cold outside
she-This evening has been –
Him-Been hoping that you’d drop in
she-So very nice –
Him-I’ll hold your hands, they’re just like ice
she-My mother will start to worry –
him-Beautiful, what’s your hurry?
she-Father will be pacing the floor
him– Listen to the fireplace roar
she-So really I’d better scurry –
him-Beautiful, please don’t hurry
she-Maybe just a half a drink more –
him-Put some records on while I pour
she-The neighbors might think –
he-Baby, it’s bad out there
she–Say, what’s in this drink? –
he-No cabs to be had out there
she–I wish I knew how –
he-Your eyes are like starlight now
she–To break this spell –
he-I’ll take your hat, your hair looks swell
she–I ought to say no, no, no –
he-Mind if I move in closer?
IMAGE and link to a really good post by Four Eyes Rella http://novarella.blogspot.com/2010/12/baby-its-cold-outside-and-rapey-inside.html
she–At least I’m gonna say that I tried –
he-What’s the sense in hurting my pride?
she–I really can’t stay –
he-Baby don’t hold out
both-Ah, but it’s cold outside
she-I’ve got to get home –
he-Oh, baby, you’ll freeze out there
she-Say, lend me your coat –
he-It’s up to your knees out there
she-You’ve really been grand –
he-Thrill when you touch my hand
she-Why don’t you see –
he-How can you do this thing to me?
she-There’s bound to be talk tomorrow –
he-Think of my life long sorrow
she-At least there will be plenty implied –
he-If you caught pneumonia and died
she-I really can’t stay –
he-oh baby don’t hold out
both-Ah, but it’s cold outside
Oh, baby, it’s cold outside
Oh, baby, it’s cold outside
See. Told you.
“Here’s a little secret we have to say out loud: Women love the sexual interplay they experience with men, and they relish men desiring their beauty.”-D.C. McAllister 2017 (Click Here to read full article.)
Or maybe we can blame Dean Martin, who after all personifies the very image of that foreplay. Dang on it Dean, why did you have to go and be so doggone cool? By the way, you were Dean Martin for goodness sake-women would have sex with you while they were sober.
For the rest of us it’s time to give this song the cold shoulder.
Finally, since the whole purpose of my blog is to tie everything back to leadership let me just say this. Real leaders don’t deliberately slip people drugs and take advantage of them while they are high or drunk-and we sure as hell don’t sing about doing it either.
Sources:
Bourque, J.C., It May Be Cold Outside, But It’s Sure Hot In Here, 2017 Retrieved fromhttp://thefederalist.com/2017/12/22/may-cold-outside-sure-hot/
Loesser, Frank, “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” 1944
McAllister, D.C. “Can We Be Honest About Women” The Federalist, 2017 retrieved from http://thefederalist.com/2017/12/12/can-honest-women/
Noverella, “Baby It’s Cold Outside (and Rapey) Inside, 2010, retrieved from http://novarella.blogspot.com/2010/12/baby-its-cold-outside-and-rapey-inside.html
The articles and writers I cited above are really good and I encourage you to read them.
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