Is the song "Baby It's Cold Outside" offensive?

I am old enough to understand the context, so no, not offensive to me. But I understand why it would be to a much younger crowd.
As for songs I do find offensive, yes, there are some, but I don’t remember the titles offhand.

This song seems like a fossil – from a time long past. And good riddance.

The moment she says “I really can’t stay.” today, a gentleman would say: “I’ll call an Uber right away.”
Done!

There’s a similar thread to this already going on here,

To answer the question, I don’t find it offensive; it is of its time.

Not at all. The context is of course suggestive, but anything capable of escaping the censors and Legion of Decency 70–80 years ago must be innocuous indeed.

I do not. Mainly because I recognize the historical context and harmless flirtation. Some of the language doesn’t translate well into modern society, like ‘what’s in this drink’, as if he slipped her a mickey….lol

This song has creeped me out from the beginning, just hits me wrong.

Yeah you got every guy in here
Spinnin’ around spillin’ their beer.
I bet you came out to have a good time
So what you say you leave your friends with mine?
Ooh, ooh, they’ll be alright, ooh, I just wanna see you shine.
Girl you’re tearin’ that dance floor up
Let me see you do it in the bed of my truck
You sure know how to shake it alright
Let me see you do it in the Tennessee moonlight
Woah, baby lets go down a little road nobody else knows
Just me and you park on the edge of the world
That’s how I wanna see you girl.
Yeah, let me see you girl.
Whatcha think about takin’ that chance.
Takin’ that ride, takin’ my hand.
Kickin’ this crowd, ditchin’ this club
This nights been waitin’ on us.
Ooh, ooh, lets see your best moves, ooh, ooh
Yeah till…
~Cole Swindell

I mean are you going to criminalize “talking her into it”? Particularly when he’s obviously getting nowhere.

Well, like everyone said, you have to take it in context of the time. And at the time it was pretty common, I think, for women to play that cat and mouse game, where “No,” means “Yes,” or “Talk me into it,” or whatever. That causes problems in society, though, when a woman says No and actually means “No.”

He’s getting somewhere @stanleybmanly. Check this out. JLeslie shared it on another thread. It’s much easier to hear the flirtation on her part.

From the sound of him, he’s in a hurry to throw her out the door. But then he’ facing assault charges.

If that’s all you heard then you missed the point. In the parody he’s telling her “If you want to leave, leave,” but she keeps singing and listing all the reasons she should leave but never does. He finally does get kind of “Why don’t you just shut up and leave then!”

Rod Stewart – Tonights the Night
Stay away from my window
Stay away from my back door too
Disconnect the telephone line
Relax baby and draw that blind
Kick off your shoes and sit right down
Loosen off that pretty French gown
Let me pour you a good long drink….
Don’t say a word my virgin child
Just let your inhibitions run wild
You could pick apart many, many songs. So many rap songs call women bitches and ho’s and use the n word.

I just save my feeling offended for more offensive things than irrelevant old songs.

Yessssssss. That was one of the first songs that came to mind when all this ridiculous tempest in a teapot started. It is seriously just as bad, if not worse. At the last the woman in the 1940s version actually IS a woman. Rod Stewart sounds like he seducing a 12 year old.

Creepy or not I have bigger shit to worry about than the lyrics of some old song. Next.

No. I never found it to be a real stand-out Christmas song, so never paid attention to it much.

The song is dumb and kind of creepy but not offensive.

is the song “Baby It’s Cold Outside” offensive?
Should we not consider a group, before we tried to classify the song as offensive?
Every time I try to classify it as offensive it always becomes a philosophical answer; and philosophy is literally ways of thinking — Whatever is your philosophy, it is accepted as right.

We could not say it was offensive to all the society times periods…
But we can tell that it is offensive to our society of today.
Are we trying to do it a moral question?
Are we talking about the era?

In today’s period of time, it should be offensive, yeah.
But not for someone 65 years old.

It is necessary to classify what is the point of the question; offensive for what?

And if you think it is, were you offended by it before it made the news or only afterward?
Everything that reminds me sexual abuse surely makes me uncomfortable; so I started to look at the video in a different way — even after the explanation I still can’t help myself.
It is because I was thinking it was just two adults playing until someone have made me thinking of it in an alternative way. Are our own imaginations our enemies?

But since I don’t give a damn about the music or singer I never felt offended; I only feel uncomfortable.
If I try hard to not think about rape I sure can dance while listening to it though.

Are there other songs out there that you find equally offensive?
Rap is definitely not an option ‘cause it is just expected of.

@Dutchess_III That song is perfect. Clever! New words for Baby, It’s Cold Outside .
Thanks!

It’s all about the context. And the context in that song was the setting of the 1940s. It was a flirty little game that was pretty much required of the young ladies. You should at least protest a little bit.

Offensive or not, thanks to this Q I’ve have been humming that song all day.
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@LuckyGuy How about “My Sharonna”?

I find that the theme of “Mister Ed” is pretty good at clearing out other ear worms…

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