The #MeToo movement just found its place in… Christmas.
The cult Christmas song Baby It’s Cold Outside has been pulled from a Cleveland Radio Station due to the very problematic lyrics.
The song, which was originally written by Frank Loesser in 1944, has been adapted by artists during the festive season time and time again.
It’s a song familiar to the ears of many, having been played on repeat in shopping centres and restaurants alike.
But it’s 2018, and now this song has got to get in the bin. Immediately.
Upon first listening to Baby It’s Cold Outside, everything appears innocent enough.
Then you listen again, more closely, and the lyrics recount a deeply uncomfortable situation that many women are familiar with.
One in which a woman is stuck in a situation whereby her needs and desires and not being listened to, and she is being held captive (though not obviously) by a man who values his own desire for sex more than her basic desire for comfort.
In fact, the entire duet is a man insisting a woman stay in his home despite her pleas to leave.
See the opening lyrics:
Her: I really can’t stay.
Him: Baby it’s cold outside.
Her: I gotta go away.
Him: Baby it’s cold outside.
These are… CREEPY.
And then it gets creepier.
Her: I ought to say no, no, no sir
Him: Mind if move in closer?
Top Comments
Does this mean my bearskin rug, chest hair and provocative disco moves are problematic now?
I've seen 3 articles online about this song today and all of them could be summed up "just because you don't understand context doesn't make this song sexist."