Comments on: ICYMI: The Problem with ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’

By: Fred Myer '60

Fred Myer '60 — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:19:33 +0000

“Culturally trained”. Loesser’s “coded lyrics”? Give me a break. Too bad “PC” term has been contaminated by one who has no clue…A nice song… Leave it alone…

By: Fred Myer

Fred Myer — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:12:34 +0000

“Culturally trained”? Loesser’s “coded lyrics”? Please give me a break. Too bad “PC” term has been contaminated by one who has no clue…A nice song ….leave it alone!

By: Dale Tomlinson '70

Dale Tomlinson '70 — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:01:01 +0000

I agree with Jim Bleikamp. Anyone who has a problem with this song — or innumerable others since then — can simply switch stations or turn off the media device: radio, phone, computer, Alexa, etc. We all have free will.
Oh, and speaking of sexist, how come Alexa, Siri, etc., all have female voices? Is it because they are appealing? “Sexy”? Or because a man can command the device and it obeys? Yet women still buy these things. (I don’t own any, and have no need of them.)
As a musician, I have preferences and decide what I like to listen to, and older music usually brings back other memories, which is what makes it enjoyable. I don’t take instruction from song lyrics, and no one with any intelligence would do so, in my opinion. I would really hope that Bowdoin’s academic environment can find more critical issues on which to expend resources.