Why are we having this debate on gross songs when we have this one that tops it all

I mean you get that from the lyrics. The traditionally woman part never says that she does not want to stay. All her excuses are about what family and friends will say.

Oh, part of their series on movies turning 75 in June? Can’t wait for the features on Gildersleeves’ Ghost, Roger Touhy: Gangster, Fuzzy Settles Down, and Olsen & Johnson’s Ghost Catchers.

You’re right. My Christmas carol credentials are hereby revoked.

Amazing how you can start with an incorrect premise and then go this far critiquing its origin while providing no relevant supporting information.

This sort of article, and the entire “Baby it’s cold outside” discourse, sounds like a Babylon Bee article about how clueless liberals are.

Sheesh, save it for your letterboxd account.

It is October 2019. I am reading a news story about how “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is bad. They say there is a new version by John Legend and Kelly Clarkson.

I enjoyed Red Skelton’s appearance in Captain America: The First Avenger. 

“I wonder if anyone actually is dim enough to genuinely believe that’s what the song is about”

<gasp> Fireplaces? You mean they are burning fossil fuels?? Didn’t you get the memo??? DECARBONIZE NOW!!

I’m just going to leave this here-(Happy Pride Month!)

Not that I want to necessarily jump into this evergreen idiotic topic but I *think* you’ll find a key difference between what you describe and “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is the woman’s absence in the former and willing participation in the latter.

I, too, am a functionally illiterate moron who doesn’t understand context. It’s so nice to see people like us given the space to publish on this website. 

“Baby It’s Cold Outside” is a sex assault song.

It’s a song about, as our Britt Hayes put it, “a woman being held hostage by some guy who may or may not have drugged her adult beverage.”

On point. The song is a time capsule of the way adults used to flirt. Within the context of the song there is no rapey vibe at all. People of that time probably just thought it was a cute way to demonstrate the playfulness of dating in a more reserved society.

this is the most dire thing I’ve read on post-kinja avclub, which is quite an achievement. much like chemical warfare was an achievement.

Target: 3/4 century old completely forgettable formulaic rom-com, no one of whom was involved in any facet of production behind or in front of camera still living. Nor for that matter, are most if no all of the theater-going public at that time.

‘It’s a song about, as our Britt Hayes put it, “a woman being held hostage by some guy who may or may not have drugged her adult beverage.”’