Why 'Baby, it's Cold Outside' isn't a "rape anthem", as feminists claim

theothermod · 2017-11-29T06:51:17+00:00

It can't be stressed enough that the Western world is in no way, shape or form a "rape culture", and hasn't been since at least medieval times.

fengpi · 2017-11-29T07:18:17+00:00

I had some Jezebel-reading chick in my office once try to make a comment about that song being about date-rape and I said "the female is putting up a charade of resistance because she doesn't want to feel like a slut." She maybe half entertained that as a possible interpretation. Half.

Millennials, who seem to think that nothing of note happened before they were born, seem prone to ripping everything out of their appropriate historical context and believing that nothing predated the 20th century except for pure bigotry, which is probably why they seemed to think the Ghostbusters remake was the first female-led comedy in history or something.

It's a good thing none of them have seen Tootsie, it would be considered transphobic today.

omegaphallic · 2017-11-29T13:33:38+00:00

Feminists can't tell the difference between a seduction and rape amymore.

w1g2 · 2017-11-29T20:15:54+00:00

In fact it's a song about a woman finding a way to exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed to stop her from doing so.

Or maybe for most of history if an unmarried woman had sex she was extremely likely to become pregnant at some point, and before the recent invention of paternity tests there would be no way to tell who the father was except believing it was whoever she pointed her finger at, and so she would likely end up alone to raise a child. People thought that was a bad deal and so heavily discouraged against it.

Psst, also men were discouraged against having sex before marriage. But, as is still the case today, a lot of women find manwhores attractive so didn't care.

It's a song about a society where a woman isn't allowed to say yes... which means it's also a society where women don't have a clear and unambiguous way to say no.

For claiming to be a history nerd, this comment kind of makes me think they don't know that much about history. If a good girl in a society where people, but particularly women, shouldn't have sex before marriage, is the kind who should never have a reputation for being amenable to the implication of sexual advances, you're going to be taught to vehemently and clearly refuse such advances if anything just to save your reputation.

Why do you think it has for so long been socially acceptable for women to slap men just for saying the wrong thing?

pleezusjeezus · 2017-11-29T07:22:33+00:00

Mirror?

jeff_the_nurse · 2017-11-29T13:03:32+00:00

What did it say? It's been removed.

Spoonwood · 2017-11-29T16:09:08+00:00

You might want to watch this and note how it ends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFJ7ie_yGU

2017-11-29T19:12:36+00:00

STANDING OVATION

Context Matters!!

hottake_toothache · 2017-11-29T22:18:26+00:00

Women are the only ones who ever liked that fucking song.

tiniestkid · 2017-11-30T01:35:34+00:00

Link is broken

ASILKYBUSH · 2017-11-30T04:06:39+00:00

wtf I've only Greened out twice in my life. and it was only because of a half hour long sesh/hot box.

way to just make yourself vulnerable for fun

Title	Why 'Baby, it's Cold Outside' isn't a "rape anthem", as feminists claim
Author	theothermod
Upvotes	89
Comments	39
Date	November 29, 2017 6:49 AM UTC (8 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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