Comments on: ICYMI: The Problem with ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2018/01/icymi-the-problem-with-baby-its-cold-outside/ A repository for Bowdoin news archives Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:25:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.11 By: Fred Myer '60 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2018/01/icymi-the-problem-with-baby-its-cold-outside/comment-page-1/#comment-121077 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:19:33 +0000 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=143051#comment-121077 “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…

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By: Fred Myer http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2018/01/icymi-the-problem-with-baby-its-cold-outside/comment-page-1/#comment-121076 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:12:34 +0000 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=143051#comment-121076 “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!

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By: Dale Tomlinson '70 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2018/01/icymi-the-problem-with-baby-its-cold-outside/comment-page-1/#comment-121075 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:01:01 +0000 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=143051#comment-121075 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.

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