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Thread: When they go after ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside,’ you know #MeToo has gone mad

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    When they go after ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside,’ you know #MeToo has gone mad

    When they go after ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside,’ you know #MeToo has gone mad

    I know most of the left on the forum will say they arent for this. Ok, Ill believe that too, but you cant deny that what Democrats keep doing is cumulative. From sanctuary cities, to giving illegals medicaid, to medicare for all, to metoo and this kind of idiocy.

    You cant run away from the party that you support just gets wackier and more crazy

    Dump the eggnog and strip the lights from the Hanukah bush, because the #MeToo movement is coming for holiday fun. #MeToo, which started out as a righteous campaign to stamp out sexual harassment and predation, has gone stark raving bonkers.


    Its latest target: the innocent, consensual kiss underneath the mistletoe and a beloved duet that celebrates it.


    The charming ditty “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is all about heterosexual flirtation and attempted seduction. Penned by Frank Loesser in 1944, it’s been covered by the likes of Bing Crosby, Idina Menzel and Michael Bublé, among many others. It was even sung, harmlessly, by Will Ferrell and Zooey Deschanel in the 2003 Yuletide movie “Elf.”


    The basic conceit is that, on a cold wintry night — we’re never told which holiday it is — a man implores his beloved to stay inside with him. “Baby, it’s cold outside,” he says. But she insists: “I really can’t stay.”


    Now the feminist Grinches claim the song is an artifact of “rape culture”: sexually deviant, suggestive of physical coercion and downright harmful. Time to ban it!


    An online campaign to get the song pulled from the airwaves, shopping malls and possibly your home went mainstream last year, thanks to the journalist Mary Nahorniak. She wrote a deadly serious piece in USA Today headlined “Let ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ Fade Away With 2017.”


    “In the original score, the male part is written as a ‘wolf’ and the woman as a ‘mouse’ — that speaks volumes about male predatory behavior,” Nahorniak claimed. “Many women know what it’s like to feel trapped by a man, whether emotionally or physically. In those situations, it doesn’t matter how it began or why she wants to leave, it only matters that she wants to go, now.”



    https://nypost.com/2018/12/04/when-t...-has-gone-mad/
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    When are they going to start going after rap and hip-hop?
    “Conscientiously believing that the proper condition of the negro is slavery, or a complete subjection to the white man, and entertaining the belief that the day is not distant when the old Union will be restored with slavery nationally declared to be the proper condition of all of African descent, and in view of the future harmony and progress of all the States of America, I have been induced to issue this address, so that there may be no misunderstanding in the future”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Safety View Post
    When are they going to start going after rap and hip-hop?
    Misogyny and violence against women in that culture are part of the protected class.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    Misogyny and violence against women in that culture are part of the protected class.
    Which protected class is that?
    “Conscientiously believing that the proper condition of the negro is slavery, or a complete subjection to the white man, and entertaining the belief that the day is not distant when the old Union will be restored with slavery nationally declared to be the proper condition of all of African descent, and in view of the future harmony and progress of all the States of America, I have been induced to issue this address, so that there may be no misunderstanding in the future”

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    It's a good song. Anyone that's had a normal flirtatious relationship can understand what's going on in this song.

    Perhaps the people getting upset over a classic song are people who have never experienced being wanted in that way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Safety View Post
    Which protected class is that?
    The hip hop culture.

    Much like the inner city thug gun culture, nobody pays attention or cares about it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Helena View Post
    It's a good song. Anyone that's had a normal flirtatious relationship can understand what's going on in this song.

    Perhaps the people getting upset over a classic song are people who have never experienced being wanted in that way.
    metoo is going the route of BLM, creating demons and falling into meaningless obscurity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    ...I know most of the left on the forum will say they arent for this. Ok, Ill believe that too, but you cant deny that what Democrats keep doing is cumulative. From sanctuary cities, to giving illegals medicaid, to medicare for all, to metoo and this kind of idiocy....
    Rhetorical question #1: Why do certain people always assume that any public silliness is the work (or the fault) of "Democrats"?

    Rhetorical question #2: Why are some examples of people getting their undergarments in a wad and starting a protest or boycott seen as acceptable and justified - e.g., "Don't go see this movie 'cause they don't show the guy planting the flag" - while others are seen as stupid and a waste of time?

    Incidentally, the first sentence of the Post piece incorrectly refers to the song as "holiday fun". In fact, neither the song or the movie it was written for and appeared in, Neptune's Daughter, has anything whatsoever to do with Christmas or any other holiday.

    And for what it's worth, later in the film, Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban sing the song again, but switch parts - with her trying to urge him to stay.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Safety View Post
    When are they going to start going after rap and hip-hop?
    That is a very good question.
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    I saw an article yesterday that Wall Street firms are now telling their employees that women cannot be in rooms along with men- there has to be a third party "witness." This is backlash to the #Metoo movement.
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