| re: 'Baby, It's Cold Outside': Holiday tradition or date-rape anthem? | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 11:35 am EST 12/19/17 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 11:24 am EST 12/19/17 | |
| In reply to: re: 'Baby, It's Cold Outside': Holiday tradition or date-rape anthem? - Chromolume 11:06 am EST 12/19/17 | |
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| One of my pet peeves is with "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", although I do on the whole like the song and the famous tv special. I hate that after all the abuse and marginalizing the other reindeer put Rudolph through for most of his life, that once Rudolph helps out Santa that Christmas Eve that "then how the reindeer loved him". I mean, "then?" they loved him? They couldn't appreciate him like his little girlfriend Clarice or the elf or wanted to be a dentist? Maybe there's something to be said about forgiveness, but in a short song, it strikes me that those reindeer are just piling on the Rudolph bandwagon like hangers-on to someone who won the lottery or became a sudden celebirity. That offends me more than anything in "Baby, It's Cold Outside" -- and yes, nobody seems to mention the hilarious 2nd part of the original context where Betty Garrett is man-hungry and pursuing Red Skelton. | |
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