December 11, 2018--Baby, It's Still Cold Outside

After my posting about the attack on the holiday song, "Baby It's Cold Outside," I've been hearing from friends who feel my "defense" of it is regressive and insensitive. It should be removed from the cannon of Christmas songs, they have been saying, because it is about date rape and has no place on the radio.

One friend managed to write something, yes, amusing about this fraught subject that I pass along to you without comment--

Since WDOK in Ohio decided to pull “Baby It’s Cold Outside” from its playlist because some were offended, I feel that these other holiday songs must also be removed since in various ways they are offensive as well. 

1. "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus": Subjecting minors to softcore porn
2. The "Christmas Song": Open fire? Pollution? Folks dressed up like Eskimos? Cultural appropriation
3. "Holly Jolly Christmas": Kiss her once for me? Unwanted advances
4. "White Christmas?" Racist
5. "Santa Claus is Coming to Town": Sees you when you’re sleeping? Knows when you’re awake? Peeping Tom stalker
6. "Most Wonderful Time of the Year": Everyone telling you be of good cheer? Forced to hide depression
7. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer": Bullying
8. "It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas": Forced gender-specific gifts: dolls for Janice and Jen and boots and pistols (GUNS?) for Barney and Ben
9. "Santa Baby": Gold digger, blackmail
10. "Frosty the Snowman": Adult snowman pursuing inappropriate relationships with children
11. "Do You Hear What I Hear?": Blatant disregard for the hearing impaired
12. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas": Make the yuletide GAY? Wow, just wow
13. "Jingle Bell Rock": Giddy up jingle horse, pick up your feet: animal abuse
14. "Mistletoe and Holly": Overeating, folks stealing a kiss or two? 
15. "Winter Wonderland": Parson Brown demanding they get married…forced partnership
16. "Silver Bells": Cruelly mocks tinnitus sufferers

Celebrate your holiday of choice responsibly.

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.