VOX: Why "Baby, It's Cold Outside" became an annual controversy about date rape and consent
When you first hear it, the song seems like a cute, flirty call-and-response duet between a man and his lady friend who are debating whether she should stay the night. On the one hand, what would her parents or the neighbors think? On the other hand, it’s just so cold outside. The ending is ambiguous, but it’s implied that she decides to stay after all, keeping them both warm on a cold winter’s night.
But when you listen closer, the song’s lyrics also seem, well ... a little rapey. The guy ignores his date’s protests and badgers her to stay, which feels a lot like sexual coercion. At one point the woman asks, “Say, what’s in this drink?” — which is pretty alarming to a modern audience that understands how roofies work. The original score even lists the man’s part as “Wolf” and the woman’s part as “Mouse,” making the predator/prey dynamic creepily explicit.
The song’s legions of defenders argue that those concerns are overblown. They note “What’s in this drink?” was a common joke in the 1930s and ’40s made by people who wanted to make an excuse for something that they knew very well they shouldn’t be doing. And in that more prudish time period, women were expected to turn down sex (at first, anyway) even if they wanted it.
The vastly different ways people hear the same short song have set off an annual internet battle over its feminist merits. For every think piece calling it a “date-rape anthem,” there’s a corresponding “Oh, come on” take about how oversensitive “social justice warriors” are killing romance and seduction and taking the song’s lyrics out of context.
http://www.vox.com/identities/2016/12/19/13885552/baby-its-cold-outside-feminist-date-rape-romantic
= new reply since forum marked as read
But this is one partly because I don't understand how it's a Christmas song. The other part of not liking it is the creepiness of it. Another song I don't understand how it's a Christmas song is Pentatonix's version of, "Hallelujah." There is nothing in the lyrics to connect it to Christmas except the second stanza which refers to Samson and Delilah and David and Bathsheba, and according to the Bible, David is an ancestor of Jesus.
Anyway, there are few Xmas songs that make me punch the change station button on my car's radio with the fury of a white hot supernova, but "Cold Outside" is one. "Christmas Shoes," is another and then any covers by Kenny G, Harry Connick, Jr., or Michael Buble torture me with their white-bread blandness.
Do you see what he's doing to that present? HE'S FARTING ON IT, and it's symbolic for what he does to music in general and Christmas carols in particular!
I feel better. 
TlalocW
And TV special:
EDIT: I wasn't sure at first who was singing in the video that I quickly found online, but it was her.
"In the Summertime"
