Broadcasters in North America ban Baby It's Cold Outside

[rogue06]

The following is a sad but true commentary on today's PC world...

And with that the funeral for romance was announced.

[Sparko]

People have been listening to that song for over 60 years and have understood it to be what MankyScotGit heard -- a guy trying to seduce a girl and maybe I should add, her not exactly pushing him away. But now, generations later, SJWs have decided that everyone has been wrong all these generations and he's really trying to rape her.

Sheesh, this was as bad as having to explain an obvious joke.

To many feminists, any sex with a male is rape.

[rogue06]

To many feminists, any sex with a male is rape.

IIRC, it was Andrea Dworkin who declared that any penetration by it's very nature constituted rape. I've been waiting for an acolyte to proclaim that "french kissing" is rape.

[Sparko]

IIRC, it was Andrea Dworkin who declared that any penetration by it's very nature constituted rape. I've been waiting for an acolyte to proclaim that "french kissing" is rape.

Wait no longer.

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Ridicule as police say kissing under the mistletoe without consent is 'rape' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-consent-rape/

[rogue06]

Wait no longer.

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Ridicule as police say kissing under the mistletoe without consent is 'rape' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-consent-rape/

[Psychic Missile]

Have you ever really listened to the lyrics of half of the songs from the 1970s and 1980s? They sound like stalker songs..

Every Breath You Take is actually, for realsies, about a stalker.

[Psychic Missile]

People have been listening to that song for over 60 years and have understood it to be what MankyScotGit heard -- a guy trying to seduce a girl and maybe I should add, her not exactly pushing him away. But now, generations later, SJWs have decided that everyone has been wrong all these generations and he's really trying to rape her.

Sheesh, this was as bad as having to explain an obvious joke.

The song being 60 (actually 70) years old is the issue. Romance and relationships have changed enough that without doing research into the context, a general audience is seeing something the songwriter didn't intend.

[firstfloor]

- says the Irish Times.

Does this help?.... now that we are living in the age of Rohypnol.

[One Bad Pig]

- says the Irish Times.

Does this help?.... now that we are living in the age of Rohypnol.

Do you often confuse news stories with Op-Eds? Psychoanalysis like that you quoted rather says more about the psychoanalyst than what he or she (yes, I'm assuming gender) is attempting to analyze.

[shunyadragon]

Do you often confuse news stories with Op-Eds? Psychoanalysis like that you quoted rather says more about the psychoanalyst than what he or she (yes, I'm assuming gender) is attempting to analyze.

The song has returned to the airways, because of popular demand.

[Sparko]

Jingle Bells is obviously about animal slavery and cruelty. That poor horse.

And it is racist too!

[rogue06]

The song being 60 (actually 70) years old is the issue. Romance and relationships have changed enough that without doing research into the context, a general audience is seeing something the songwriter didn't intend.

That is kind of the point except you really don't have to do any research. Just don't walk around waiting to be offended.

[Sparko]

That is kind of the point except you really don't have to do any research. Just don't walk around waiting to be offended.

Well liberals have been playing the "I'm offended" game for decades now, with their victimization mentality. And they seem to get prestige and virtue points by being the one to point out new offenses so they are always on the lookout. But they have pretty much exhausted the obvious things to get offended by, so now they have moved on to straining gnats and getting offended by ridiculous things like cartoons and songs. If you want to find something to be offended by, you can always find something in anything.

Once people stop responding to their accusations with apologies and banning things, and rightly point out to them that they are being ridiculous or just ignore them, maybe it will stop, or at least slow down. Right now it is like a popularity contest among social justice warriors.

[Psychic Missile]

That is kind of the point except you really don't have to do any research. Just don't walk around waiting to be offended.

There are tons of other aspects of historical American cultural that are foreign to its current citizens. It is wholly incorrect to claim romance in the 1950s is an exception or to not expect misinterpretations from a modern listener without context.

[lilpixieofterror]

- says the Irish Times.

Does this help?.... now that we are living in the age of Rohypnol.

Which is mainly true to this day FF. Got a point to this rant?