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Edit!: The day our brains stood still

Journal by Gaaark

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.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday December 11 2018, @02:23PM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Tuesday December 11 2018, @02:23PM (#772857) Journal

    8 Christmas Songs That Are Totally, Terribly Sexist [bustle.com]

    SANTA BABY, SANTA BUDDY: STEREOTYPES IN CHRISTMAS MUSIC [wordpress.com]

    kek

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Sulla on Tuesday December 11 2018, @05:20PM (2 children)

    by Sulla (5173) on Tuesday December 11 2018, @05:20PM (#772941) Journal

    Whether you celebrate Christmas or are looking for some good movies to watch for Hanukkah or just plain don't celebrate anything during this particular month at all, the fact still remains that there are candy canes, Santa Claus, reindeer, and sexism in the air. "Wait a minute, Kadeen, what was that last thing? What was does sexism have to do with Christmas?" Sorry, my friends, but a lot more than you think. Some of your favorite Christmas songs are kind of really sexist.

    On "I saw mommy kissing santa"

    The fact that we have an entire song devoted to a woman's infidelity — with Santa Claus, no less — but no such fun Christmas carol for a guy — despite Mrs. Claus being a thing — really says it all. (And giving this classic Christmas song another listen reveals that there might be something a little more insidious than simple infidelity at play. The child who snuck out of bed and witnessed this alleged instance of cheating apparently thinks it would be hilarious to report this back to Dad... for some reason.)

    I thought the whole point was that it was dad dressed up as santa?

    I was gonna quote some of the funnier stuff, but the whole article is sjw gold.

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    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Sulla on Tuesday December 11 2018, @05:25PM (1 child)

      by Sulla (5173) on Tuesday December 11 2018, @05:25PM (#772946) Journal

      Cant help it

      Listen, I understand that it's a traditional fact that guys like to play with guns and girls like to play with dolls (or something), but we don't need to reinforce gender stereotypes in our Christmas carols, okay? Update yourself to the modern century, "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!" Let's have the boys put aside the pistols and the girls put aside the dolls and roll out some gender neutral gifts, shall we?

      I assume she has never been around little boys and girls. If my kids are given gender neutral playdough or legos they build trucks or guns and smash or shoot.

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      • (Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Tuesday December 11 2018, @05:29PM

        by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Tuesday December 11 2018, @05:29PM (#772951) Journal

        If my kids are given gender neutral playdough or legos they build trucks or guns and smash or shoot.

        That's only because the heteronormative preferences you unconsciously project have been brainwashing them since they were born! You absolute sexist!

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