Anyone who says “Baby, It’s cold outside” is a song about date rape is GRASPING AT STRAWS.
This is a song, written in the 40s first off, the sort of time where you hardly go on DATES unchaperoned unless you’re an adult perfectly capable of making your own decisions.
Here we have a couple, probably dating for a few months, otherwise no way would it have been proper for a girl to just be at a guy’s home unless they were already seeing each other and knew each other well.
It’s late. She SHOULD go home. People will talk. Woah you stayed over at a guy’s house? The internal struggle is VERY CLEAR. The woman frets about what people will THINK (aka is she could get all ‘slut-shamed’ though in those days it was much less harsh phrasing…) even though she really wants to stay, and he does to, so he’s convincing her.
Look, I swear to god if you’ve been in a relationship before, YOU KNOW THIS SITUATION ALREADY. It happens a lot. I’ve been there many times ‘aight? In fact I was in this same situation that finally hooked up with Masa and decided to make us official. It was like midnight, I had an hour drive home, and was debating just staying the night but then drama would start (and it did, in fact, but that’s another story).
In any case, it really pisses me off when people start butting into old stuff, saying WOW IT’S ACTUALLY ABOUT THIS when they need to sit the fuck down and understand that they weren’t born in that era, life was different, people did things differently, and they can’t just ASSUME things based on today’s standards.
And for the record, the line “say, what’s in this drink?” IT’S NOT A FUCKING DATE RAPE DRUG YOU IDIOTS WHY THE FUCK WOULD ANYONE CHOOSE TO WRITE A SONG AND JUST DROP IN THAT SHIT. She’s probably referring to tasting alcohol. Again, people who drink, you must understand this line, right? You know when you get a mixed drink at a party and you can only slightly taste the alcohol, and otherwise it’s just really good and makes you warm?
JFC if you look at all the versions of this song, they’re all sung with people at least over the age of 21, and you gotta understand the fucking situation. And if you’re going to call date rape over a fictional song about a couple having a few drinks, a girl staying out late, and the hesitation of “wow should we take this step tonight? Should I stay over?” well, then honestly to me you just sound like someone that’s walking down the road of a slut-shamer. S'all I’m sayin’.
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