I am firmly in the middle ground, there are amazing socialist ideas that work(free education, health care, and social security), but they have only worked well when implemented in generally free market societies.

I, too, was confused by Rizzo and Kenickie’s exchange in the car as a young catholic boy. However, it took me a very very long time to realize that the thing that Kenickie was carrying around since the 7th grade was in fact a condom. I thought it was a ring. Like a wedding ring that he was going to give her so they…

I wonder how anti-choice peoples opinions will change when the zika virus becomes more wide spread in the US. It’s one thinking for healthy people with the resources for birth control, good health care etc. to clutch their pearls over abortion, but when they are the ones effected by serious fetal deformities in what…

That’s something that a lot of this type of “rule changing” seems to forget. In cases like these it is usually a very much wanted pregnancy that’s given rise to the problem. A fatal fetal abnormality is generally not something that you find if you’re not interested in actually having a child. Suddenly being shunted…

Not sure what you point is.

That’s not a “disturbingly real” version of the song, it’s a rather outlandish satire based on how 40s language sounds to modern ears. It’s funny because it’s over-the-top. Frank Loesser wasn’t writing about duct-taping and raping his wife, of course, but the idiom is a little archaic, and lends itself to exaggeration…

Loesser wrote it, and he and his wife used to perform it at parties. When he sold the rights, she divorced him because it was ‘their’ song (she also divorced him for other reasons, bu that didn’t help). Certainly the song is antiquated, but it doesn’t exactly deserve the date-rape reputation it currently has. It’s…

I go back and forth on this song, but what always brings me back to liking it is the line “at least I’m gonna say that I tried.”

How is “a woman afraid of what society thinks eventually overcomes that fear and does what she wants” not an improvement over “a man roofies and rapes a woman who just wants to get home to her family”?

Someone on Twitter recently (I wish I could remember who) pointed out that, the way it was originally written and performed, what this song is really about is a woman who wants to buck social norms of propriety and stay with him but feels pressured to leave so she doesn’t suffer social consequences and stigma. And…