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re: The creepiest classic of all: What should we do about ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside?’
Posted by: enoch10 03:08 pm EST 12/21/15
In reply to: re: The creepiest classic of all: What should we do about ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside?’ - Sam890 08:46 am EST 12/21/15
have they completely stopped teaching rhetorical strategies in composition classes? do you really think anyone - other than maybe (i prefer giving you the benefit of the doubt) you - find these two things comparable? possible subtextual sexism in a song and the physical expressions of dehumanization exemplified in the jim crow laws that followed 400 years of slavery? do you really not see how insensitive, tone deaf, and insulting that is?

and anyone who'd like to chime in with some version of "oh, how pc" can i just head that off at the pass with anybody who thinks dismissing this with thinly-veiled longing for a time when blatant bigotry got more a pass is a moron. how's that for pc?

political correctness is a real thing and (i think) often a real problem no matter how misused the term might be. we don't need to call out the faulty logic in labelling this song "sexist" or "pro-rape" or whatever nonsense it is exactly that's being bandied about by applying inappropriate terminology. this argument is silly enough at just face value.
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