#MeTooFar

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Radio Stations Bans 'Baby, It's Cold Outside"

Honestly, this is what it's come to?

I support #MeToo (donated, got a t-shirt and a car sticker). But this radio station has been pressured into banning a harmless song.  The song is not about rape.  It isn't about coercion. It's about seduction. 

Fuxxake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwGrg8UPTY8

Boru

[no one]

The depths of human stupidity will never cease to amaze me.

[Minimalist]

"The world we live in is extra sensitive now, and people get easily offended,

People should grow a fucking set of balls.

[Pat Mustard]

Radio Stations Bans 'Baby, It's Cold Outside"

Honestly, this is what it's come to?

I support #MeToo (donated, got a t-shirt and a car sticker). But this radio station has been pressured into banning a harmless song.  The song is not about rape.  It isn't about coercion. It's about seduction. 

Fuxxake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwGrg8UPTY8

Boru

It's right to be banned, it's not the Red Dwarf version.

[I_am_not_mafia]

The song is not about rape.  It isn't about coercion. It's about seduction. 

It's about a woman being plied with drugs to lower her inhibitions so she can have sex when ordinarily she wouldn't to. You could make the same argument about spiking a woman's drink with a date rape drug.

I'm not saying it is equivalent, but I can understand how if some women have been coerced into being sexually exploited using these very same techniques, Ithen they may not find the song as amusing as most men do.

[Minimalist]

I imagine their radio has an "off" button.  They don't have to listen to it.  If they do that says much more about them than it does about a stupid song.

[SteelCurtain]

Meh, it's a song about a woman saying no over and over again, a man putting something in her drink and not letting her leave, and her still saying no.

I'm okay with radio listeners saying they'd like to hear Christmas music but the messaging in that one has had it's day.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The song is not about rape.  It isn't about coercion. It's about seduction. 

It's about a woman being plied with drugs to lower her inhibitions so she can have sex when ordinarily she wouldn't to. You could make the same argument about spiking a woman's drink with a date rape drug.

I'm not saying it is equivalent, but I can understand how if some women have been coerced into being sexually exploited using these very same techniques, Ithen they may not find the song as amusing as most men do.

You (and SC) must not have read the article. 'What's in this drink' isn't a reference to a spiked drink.

Boru

[Belacqua]

People should grow a fucking set of balls.

Thinking with the balls is what made #MeToo necessary in the first place.

[SteelCurtain]

You're right, Boru, I read the lyrics, not the article. Definitely changes my view a bit, but I still am okay with it not being played on a radio station.

Regardless of what it meant in the 30's, (and I agree it's much more innocuous now I know the meaning of "what's that in my drink?") I think the tone of the lyrics is still enough for it to be a retired song. I'm certainly not going to protest anything, but it is 2018, and I still think a song in which 98% of the context is gone from the zeitgeist and sounds like a woman repeatedly rebuffing a man can be removed from one radio station's playlist and we'll all be okay.