Our country has lost its freaking mind

solid

F’ing great

That pretty much sums up this country.

That was great and sadly true at the same time. Our country has lost its damn mind courtesy of the progressive left

That was great. He is spot on!

I wonder who on this board agreed with cancelling it a couple years ago

I recall it was more than a few

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People who think “Baby it’s cold outside” is rapey are drooling window lickers with zero understanding of context or subtext.

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I love the song but the dude clearly doesn’t know how to take a no in it. This vid skips this part. Plus WAP is all consensual, it’s just vulgar, so a different topic.


I simply must go (But, baby, it's cold outside)
The answer is no (But, baby, it's cold outside)
Your welcome has been (How lucky that you dropped in)
So nice and warm (Look out the window at the storm)

The what’s in this drink is kinda sus too, lol.

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I love the song but the dude clearly doesn’t know how to take a no in it.

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No, it’s you who clearly don’t understand.

The woman WANTED to stay but the prevailing (yet changing) social mores dictated that she was supposed to go home. Staying over with a man! For shame! What would the neighbors think!?


The ENTIRE THING is a tongue in cheek thumbing of the nose at stodgy old ways. You have to understand that this was right after WW2. The world and attitudes were changing on stuff like this and Baby it’s cold outside was at the forefront of that.

I can go over it line by line and explain why it wasn’t rapey in he least.
She’s being coy and playing hard to get. She’s into him, he’s into her, and they both know it. The ONLY thing they are worried about is what nosy busybodies (mother, maiden aunt, etc.) will think.

She isn’t some teenager, she’s a grown arse woman. They are both adults.

From an article about the infamous “what’s in this drink” line

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As for the infamous line, “Say, what’s in this drink?” Belle believes this is one more excuse for a woman of the day to shirk social mores and get busy. “Say, what’s in this drink?” she explains, “is a phrase that was common in movies of the time period,” one that did not mean then what it means now. Today the phrase would refer to an actual insidious substance a man might put in a woman’s drink. In the 1940s, the phrase was a nod to the idea that alcohol was “making” a person say or do something that she ordinarily would have been constrained from doing by the then-current moral code; something, further that she actually wanted to say or do. Belle writes: “The joke is almost always that there is nothing in the drink. The drink is the excuse. The drink is the shield someone gets to hold up in front of them to protect from criticism.” The drink, in other words, in the context of this song, is not the thing that aids in the assault of a woman — it’s the thing that gives her sexual agency. In the 1940s, not only was it socially unacceptable for an unmarried couple to sleep together, it was unacceptable for a woman to express sexual desire. Being coy was not necessarily a sign of genuine discomfort. It was also a seduction tactic.

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