Okay, look buddy, I’m not disagreeing with your ABSOLUTE PREROGATIVE to hate the song.  You 100% have the right to stand by that, and I would never disagree with it.  Your statement here is also completely accurate, and speaking as someone with a long ugly history of sexual assault (do you lurk enough to know that too, or are you just losing your temper?) I even agree with it.  It was this attitude that you had to at least claim that you’d resisted in order to protect your reputation (”At least I can to say that I tried”) even if the sex was consensual that feeds into our modern culture’s total denial of date rape claims.

That being said, the specific song “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is radically different if you evaluate it as a song written in “their day” as opposed to the way most people do it, as a song written in our day.  Culture is written in songs and stories, and this song speaks to a part of culture that is different today, that’s why it’s interesting.  I’m not saying you have to like the song, nor am I questioning any skeeved-out feelings you have toward it, but there is a lot to be said for knowing one’s history in order to progress forward rather than backward, socially speaking.  

Finally, may I ask why you felt the need to tell me specifically this thing?  Because if you do lurk so often on my blog, as your intro implies, I don’t know what in particular you hoped to convey other than making me a little ill-tempered, because regardless of how you meant it, this ask comes off as fairly rude.  And, as I have so frequently mentioned over the last few days, I am tired and stressed out about my family and generally exasperated with humanity.  Like.  You had to know I’d be inclined to take something like this a little poorly.