Baby It's Cold Outside ...

[joggerjayne]

There's this "politically correct" rerecording of Baby It's Cold Outside. I mean ... really?? I've done that song as a karaoke duet sooo many times. It's one of the most fun songs ever. Are they just reading too much into it? J x

[2sp_]

To be honest, I'm not sure what they would change to make it PC?

[Mamyalynne]

Hmmmm

http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/12/07/baby-its-cold-outside-gets-new-pc-treatment-activists

[Mamyalynne]

Are these people bored?

[joggerjayne]

Apparently, when "she" says "l really must go", then "he" says "Yes, that's fine ... and she says "I really can't stay", and he says "You don't have to". Something like that.

[pastafreak]

Maybe not bored...but very young and earnest. ;-0

[2sp_]

I agree that the issue of consent is a very important, but this is just a tad OTT.

[Buenchico]

Since the SoundCloud links seem to be dead, this might add something to the thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSf6DughV3A

[pastafreak]

http://www.kare11.com/entertainment/television/programs/breaking-the-news/local-musicians-go-viral-for-updated-baby-its-cold-outside/365210944

[anneasquith]

Bing Crosby is a God :-)

[pastafreak]

Not quite...he doesn't try to convince her to stay..."It's cool...".

[Bertrum]

If it gets any better I guess I'm just going to have to chuck out half my record collection

[tamborine]

this is the way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm2iLIrKjqc

[237SJ]

Pathetic

[pastafreak]

According to wiki...
// Although some critical analyses of the song have highlighted parts of the lyrics such as "What's in this drink?" and his unrelenting pressure to stay despite her repeated suggestions that she should to go home,[2] more in depth analysis has noted that cultural expectations of the time period were such that women were not socially permitted to spend the night with a boyfriend or fiance, and that the female speaker states that she wants to stay, while "what's in this drink" was a common idiom of the period used to rebuke social expectations by blaming one's actions on the influence of alcohol;[3] the song is therefore a collusion by two willing lovers to engage in a romantic liaison, using the pretext "it's cold outside" as a shield against the social stigma of the time period against women making their own decisions about their sexuality.//
Different time,place and attitudes.

[pixie374]

I think so, pasta. I've never heard that song before and looked on YouTube and read the lyrics. It does seem faintly creepy, but mostly just old-fashioned.

[joggerjayne]

So, on that basis, pasta ...

The "she" in the song could be making a determined stand for feminism ...

Contrary to the social constraints of the day, she wants to be liberated and free, and wants to stay.

In ordered to do so, she adopts the pretence of wanting to leave so that, afterwards, she can defend herself against the misogynists of the day by saying that she intended to leave, but was compelled to stay when the inclement weather conditions were drawn to her attention.

She is a feminist, ahead of her time, not a weak and vulnerable woman, and making a new version of the song probably undermines her stance for female freedom.

Well done you for finding that explanation, pasta. Good answer, but ...

Best Answer HAS to be pixie ... for being possibly the only person on the planet who hadn't previously heard Baby It's Cold Outside !!!!!!! lol x

[mallyh]

tom jones version is great x

[murraymints]

https://www.facebook.com/LaughOrCroak1/photos/a.289033751155764.69115.288992101159929/1337722632953532/?type=3