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Tis the season for holiday songs. We can debate which carols and holiday songs are our favorites over cups of apple cider while watching the snow fall. My least favorite songs are Baby (or Buy Me Stuff Sugardaddy) and The Christmas Shoes (just no). In comparison, “Baby it’s Cold Outside” is rather cute. And here is the song:
Read the lyrics and listen to the duet. It is about a couple defying expectations of society. This is almost progressive, right? Not according to an article found by our friends at Twitchy. A high school junior named Will Trlak wrote a story calling the song “about rape” in a teen magazine called Affinity. Twitchy and Twitter are having a great time utterly mocking young Will’s theory. Kudos to the kids for creating a magazine but the illogic is actually painful. This is the weather implied by the song:
First problem with his theory is context. The 1930’s and 1940’s were a different era to put it mildly. It was Not Done for unmarried couples to spend the night together. Listening to the song, it is about a couple rationalizing staying at the house and making excuses to stay together. And defy social norms.
Second, the line about “say what’s in this drink” was deconstructed by a Jezebel editor calling herself Slay Belle here
“Say, what’s in this drink” is a well-used phrase that was common in movies of the time period and isn’t really used in the same manner any longer. The phrase generally referred to someone saying or doing something they thought they wouldn’t in normal circumstances; it’s a nod to the idea that alcohol is “making” them do something unusual. But the joke is almost always that there is nothing in the drink. The drink is the excuse.
Context again people. This is not about GHB or roofies. Baby it’s Cold Outside makes sense when Baby lives across town, there is no salt truck or antilock brakes on a car. And a couple who wants a few more hours together.
Third is rape itself. Rape is not a trope or a weapon for you to use little boy. Your article actually hurts victims of sexual assault. It makes a crime of violence which is life altering and not in a good way, into a meme. Rape is Not a duet sung by a couple scheming TOGETHER to get around a social requirement. This tweet says what I am thinking with a few less profanities than you would get face to face:
.@TheAffinityMag I really don’t think you know what “rape” means. And this is an insult to anyone who has actually suffered it.
— Gary HokieHawk (@grsvt81) December 5, 2016
I honestly hope none of the kids writing for Affinity NEVER learn first hand how damaging sexual assault is.
GWB says: The song is about a man seducing a woman into staying. At least that’s one side of it. Of course, nowadays, “seducing” is considered as bad as rape by the man-haters.
BTW, I don’t like the Dolly Parton/Rod Stewart version. Because at the end of the song she makes explicit something not expressed in the original – that she agrees to stay. In the one movie I can find it used, one half of the scene is Red Skelton trying to escape a girl fond of him (she is singing the “it’s cold outside” bits). The other half is a woman escaping Ricardo Montalban as a masher, it appears.
Along the lines of phrases that don’t mean what you think they mean: “making love” was not originally about intercourse. “Making love” was a fairly broad category that included everything from dancing intimately all the way up to (but not really including) sex. You could “make love” on a dance floor, or in the park, or on the couch. (In It’s A Wonderful Life, Mary telling her mother that George is “making violent love to me, Mother!” isn’t quite as scandalous as a modern viewer might think.)
Gail Boer says: And a woman trying to be convinced to stay. But that is heteronormative and wrong to the Social Justice crowd. It is kind of a parody of dating and social norms.
Helen says: What a missed opportunity for this Young Man. He is also an example of the next generation that need “Safe Space” for hurtful words.
Our family found an old copy of the Muppet’s Christmas with John Denver. About 90% of the songs on the CD wouldn’t be song now because of fears of offending someone. But, an interesting teaching moment popped up regarding a line in one of the songs; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas- this is from Frank Sintra’s version…
“Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on, our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay”………………
My children learned the line as “Make the Yuletide bright……”
We used this moment to teach the children the meaning of the word “gay” and the original meaning behind the song. So, no gay person was being placed on a bonfire that was originally told to the children. UG!!!
Young Man who wrote that “Baby It’s Cold Outside” was about a rape-you totally missed out on a beautiful history and language lesson. To his teacher…. they need to go back to school.
Gail Boer says: Thank you Helen. I agree that it is parents and teachers not doing their jobs. Perspective and education are so so important. Social Justice nonsense like this is a missed opportunity to learn to treat everyone with respect. Love the post. And yes words change meaning over time. 🙂
Rebecca says: Make the yuletide “bright”? Because that rhymes so well with the next line: “From now on, your troubles will be miles away.”
J Walter says: Date rape drug or just drunk?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223134/Young-women-fear-drink-spiked-just-alcohol.html
The thing is, every time there is a false rape / regret rape / outright lie alligation it takes away real justice for a real victim.
J Walter says: Don’t forget that that a woman my weight process alcohol about half the rate I do. They get drunk faster. Biology didn’t get the feminists talking points.
Real rape is a horrible crime. Real rape that is.
Gail Boer says: Yes it is a horrible crime and equating rape to all kinds of random events is infuriating. False accusers IMO should be penalized like any other sex offender (registration and all the penalties). And totally unrelated to a duet of a couple trying to find an excuse to extend their date. 🙂
GWB says: At a minimum, false accusers should have their names and faces published on the internet. That way other men can avoid getting involved with them.
What would we call a “law” akin to Godwin’s Law (the first person to compare their internet argument opponent to NAZIs loses) that equates non-rape things to rape?
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