“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” won the Academy Award for best ... how consent and dating culture in America has evolved. The 1940s was not exactly a time of extreme chastity.

The Christmas tree has been trimmed, stockings have been hung, the elf is sitting on his shelf and, once again, people are debating whether “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is a song about rape.

LeBontemps said the "Baby, It’s Cold Outside" version in which a woman sings the mouse's lines likely signifies the "heavy load" that women of the mid-to-late 1940s were carrying. She said women ...

Languages: English A woman whose father wrote the Christmas song "Baby, It's Cold Outside," said people have ... song's text is more geared for those in the 1940's and 50's.

The tune was penned in the 1940s by Frank Loesser — writer ... a song where a man sings, “Baby it’s cold outside,” and a woman responds, “the answer is no” deserves increased ...

In the 1940s, women condemned to single life ... What we are witnessing through “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is not an uncomfortable scene of a man aggressively urging a woman to stay over ...

It was the 1940s, and they were singing about alcohol ... No two performances of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" are really equal, and there've been a lot of them; Linda Holmes conducted an exhaustive ...

The #MeToo movement has caught up with “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” The 1940s fugue between a woman, who has dropped by a man’s home but says she wants to leave, and the man, who persuades ...

The Christmas classic "Baby, It's Cold Outside" once again made headlines ... many once again closely reevaluating the lyrics to the 1940s song. “It wasn't really our decision.

Now there are questions on whether the Christmas song "Baby, It's Cold Outside," which was first recorded in 1944, should no longer be played due to its lyrics. Since the 40s, the song has been ...

Elizabethtown WAKY radio station mixed it up during the two hours by playing five different versions of the 1940s classic. "BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE! We like it and we're not afraid to play it on ...

Now there are questions on whether the Christmas song "Baby, It's Cold Outside," which was first recorded in 1944, should no longer be played due to its lyrics. Since the 40s, the song has been ...