Baby, I’m fine with that…?
No matter how often I reread this, I am unable to believe it is not a parody, and unable to credit that the songwriter couple is not trolling CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/02/us/baby-its-cold-outside-cover-trnd/
The joke is that someone looked at the most sensual, seductive song in Christmas history “Baby It’s Cold Outside” and pretended that the comments and responses of a man seducing a woman is the same as coercion, that is, rape. The full crybully feminist hysteria followed, where unconvincing fools fool no one by pretending to be terrified of utterly nonexistent threats from the even more nonexistent patriarchy, who designed this song as a weapon mean to … do something bad, somehow, to someone. I am reminded of the intellectuals of Laputa, where, according to that most accurate of historians Johnathon Swift, they greeted each other each day by fretting and worrying about comets poised to pash the world to pieces.
Flattery is rape. The insanity involved in such a deduction is Orwellian, on the same order as saying Peace is War and Ignorance is Strength: by definition seduction cajoles, lures, insists, and enchants. Coercion is the opposite.
For those of you unfamiliar with the song, it is perhaps the most brilliant summation of the mating game between male and female imaginable.
Here is the original. For some reason, the filmmakers decided not to put the song in a setting where it was actually, you know, cold outside, but this is Ricardo Montalban and Esther Williams, back in the days when actors were handsome as hell and actresses divinely feminine. You will not see their like today.
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