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The CBC has grabbed a brain and got it moving again!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/cbc-baby-its-cold-reinstate-1.4941087
So the loud minority is starting to be drowned out by the usually silent majority: good for all those who have brains.
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So radio stations are banning "Baby, it's cold outside" because there are too many losers in the world.
My. God., People. Are. Stupid.
It's a really nice Christmas song about a girl wanting to stay with her man for....'cuddles', but she can't because society would call her a 'whore/slut' if she did.
She is wrestling with WANTING to stay but 'having' to leave because society is filled with losers.
Look:
"I really can't stay - Baby it's cold outside
I've got to go away - Baby it's cold outside
This evening has been - Been hoping that you'd drop in
So very nice - I'll hold your hands, they're just like ice
My mother will start to worry - Beautiful, what's your hurry
My father will be pacing the floor - Listen to the fireplace roar
So really I'd better scurry - Beautiful, please don't hurry
Well Maybe just a half a drink more - Put some records on while I pour
The neighbors might think - Baby, it's bad out there
Say, what's in this drink - No cabs to be had out there
I wish I knew how - Your eyes are like starlight now
To break this spell - I'll take your hat, your hair looks swell
I ought to say no, no, no, sir - Mind if I move a little closer
At least I'm gonna say that I tried - What's the sense in hurting my pride
I really can't stay - Baby don't hold out
Ahh, but it's cold outside
C'mon baby
I simply must go - Baby, it's cold outside
The answer is no - Ooh baby, it's cold outside
This welcome has been - I'm lucky that you dropped in
So nice and warm -- Look out the window at that storm
My sister will be suspicious - Man, your lips look so delicious
My brother will be there at the door - Waves upon a tropical shore
My maiden aunt's mind is vicious - Gosh your lips look delicious
Well maybe just a cigarette more - Never such a blizzard before
I've got to get home - Oh, baby, you'll freeze out there
Say, lend me your coat - It's up to your knees out there
You've really been grand - Your eyes are like starlight now
But don't you see - How can you do this thing to me
There's bound to be talk tomorrow - Making my life long sorrow
At least there will be plenty implied - If you caught pneumonia and died
I really can't stay - Get over that old out
Ahh, but it's cold outside
Baby it's cold outside"
Read it!
There are no rape drugs in her drink: she's making an excuse for not leaving, just like in the lines:
"But don't you see
There's bound to be talk tomorrow
At least there will be plenty implied
I really can't stay"
She wants to stay, but feels she can't.
Only stupid people could object to this song.
Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid people.
My. God.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday December 06 2018, @11:45AM
Also from the article:
What. The. Actual. Fuck?! I hear a WHOOSH bigger than a sonic boom! It's quite clearly those critics' own bigotry making them think it "diminished" the seriousness of those other forms of discrimination. It shows how deeply rooted their biases are--the strong belief that animals are fundamentally of a massively lower importance when making moral judgments. While PETA's approach on this topic is certainly whimsical and click-baity, speciesism itself is a real, deadly serious form of discrimination. People are just dismissing and ridiculing it as a knee-jerk reaction because they've already decided that they won't give such arguments (or the people that make them) serious thought.
Humanity doesn't want to allow speciesism to be a legitimate thing because it would just be far too inconvenient. We simply can't have people feeling guilty when they send their "livestock" off to slaughter or carve up their dinner, so better just to point and laugh, right? At this point I should note that I do absolutely recognize that many animals have much less capacity for thought than most humans and, at least in some cases, probably even have less ability to experience suffering to the same degree as humans. My position is just that that should never morally excuse inflicting suffering upon them and that it's morally wrong to treat them as objects. Consider also that humans exist across wide spectra of intelligence level, ability and capacity to feel but it's generally not seen as morally acceptable to take away the rights of those humans whose capacities are reduced. Therefore the same moral reasoning should be applied to the rights of animals.