The old Christmas song 'Baby its cold outside' implies sexual harassment, even date rape,

by Syl Sat Dec 16, 2017 12:40 pm

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A woman chorister says she is not sure she can sing the old classic song penned in 1944 because of the lyrics.
She posted her dilemma on Mumsnet and asked for advice. Rolling Eyes

Has the world gone completely mad? Rolling Eyes

by Syl Mon Dec 18, 2017 1:11 pm

Eilzel wrote:
Syl wrote:

They already took 'faggot' out in other recordings.
I saw Ed Sheeran duet with someone singing this and they replaced the word faggot with blagger.

While I agree the woman in the OP is ridiculous, and censoring Fairytale of New York is also too extreme, I think Sheeran and others changing that word to something else is totally reasonable- these days it really might not feel to nice to say that word for some people so why not alter it.

I see your point here.....though the word obviously wasn't used in the song to imply homosexuality, it meant he was an idle layabout, but its one of those words that seems to have been hijacked and used as an insult towards gays.

The old Christmas song 'Baby its cold outside' implies sexual harassment, even date rape,

The old Christmas song 'Baby its cold outside' implies sexual harassment, even date rape,

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