People are tired of this politically correct over the top bullshit. People find reason to be offended over every little thing... See? But Rogers won't...fuck Rogers they just got back on my list of companies that i like to hate and boycott.
The “overwhelming” desire of CBC Music listeners to be able to hear Baby It’s Cold Outside has prompted the public broadcaster to resume playing the song after a week’s hiatus.
CBC had followed the lead of a number of Canadian and U.S. broadcasters by deciding last week to remove the 1944 Christmas classic from two playlists its programmers curated for the holiday season. At the time, a spokesperson said CBC had “no plans” to play Baby It’s Cold Outside in the future in light of public condemnation of its lyrics.
CBC explained the reversal of course on Tuesday by saying it had only temporarily stopped playing the song — in which a male singer tries to convince a female visitor to stay at his home even as she repeatedly tells him she needs to leave — to consider opinions on both sides of the issue. Proponents of Baby It’s Cold Outside think banning the song is an overreaction, given that its writer, Frank Loesser, viewed it as an endearing duet he could perform with his wife. Others say the song is about a woman searching for an excuse to stay rather than a celebration of date rape.
Head of public affairs Chuck Thompson said CBC Music programmers returned Baby It’s Cold Outside to their network’s holiday playlists after getting a significant amount of feedback from listeners, nearly all of whom opposed keeping the song sidelined.
“We heard from our audience in no uncertain terms,” Thompson said. “Almost to a person they were asking us to reconsider.”
A Cleveland radio station was the first to pull the tune from its airwaves in late November, citing listener concerns about the obstructive tactics the male vocalist employs to keep his female counterpart from departing into the wintry night.
“I ought to say, no, no, no sir,” the woman says at one point in Marilyn Maxwell and Dean Martin’s famous version of the song.
“Mind if I move in closer?” Martin replies.
Glenn Anderson, a host at Star 102 in Cleveland, acknowledged in a post on his station’s website that Baby It’s Cold Outside was written a long time ago, but said the male singer’s behaviour, as reflected in the lyrics, “seems very manipulative and wrong” in today’s context.
“The world we live in is extra sensitive now, and people get easily offended, but in a world where #MeToo has finally given women the voice they deserve, the song has no place,” Anderson wrote on Nov. 27.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/baby-its-cold-outside-back-on-the-air
The “overwhelming” desire of CBC Music listeners to be able to hear Baby It’s Cold Outside has prompted the public broadcaster to resume playing the song after a week’s hiatus.
CBC had followed the lead of a number of Canadian and U.S. broadcasters by deciding last week to remove the 1944 Christmas classic from two playlists its programmers curated for the holiday season. At the time, a spokesperson said CBC had “no plans” to play Baby It’s Cold Outside in the future in light of public condemnation of its lyrics.
CBC explained the reversal of course on Tuesday by saying it had only temporarily stopped playing the song — in which a male singer tries to convince a female visitor to stay at his home even as she repeatedly tells him she needs to leave — to consider opinions on both sides of the issue. Proponents of Baby It’s Cold Outside think banning the song is an overreaction, given that its writer, Frank Loesser, viewed it as an endearing duet he could perform with his wife. Others say the song is about a woman searching for an excuse to stay rather than a celebration of date rape.
Head of public affairs Chuck Thompson said CBC Music programmers returned Baby It’s Cold Outside to their network’s holiday playlists after getting a significant amount of feedback from listeners, nearly all of whom opposed keeping the song sidelined.
“We heard from our audience in no uncertain terms,” Thompson said. “Almost to a person they were asking us to reconsider.”
A Cleveland radio station was the first to pull the tune from its airwaves in late November, citing listener concerns about the obstructive tactics the male vocalist employs to keep his female counterpart from departing into the wintry night.
“I ought to say, no, no, no sir,” the woman says at one point in Marilyn Maxwell and Dean Martin’s famous version of the song.
“Mind if I move in closer?” Martin replies.
Glenn Anderson, a host at Star 102 in Cleveland, acknowledged in a post on his station’s website that Baby It’s Cold Outside was written a long time ago, but said the male singer’s behaviour, as reflected in the lyrics, “seems very manipulative and wrong” in today’s context.
“The world we live in is extra sensitive now, and people get easily offended, but in a world where #MeToo has finally given women the voice they deserve, the song has no place,” Anderson wrote on Nov. 27.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/baby-its-cold-outside-back-on-the-air
