To pull out because of programme at Christmas concert

[Whyamistillawake]

I've been going to a choir since September, most of which has been practising for the Christmas concert this week.

We've just had the final rehearsal in which they've introduced a duet which us two people (not including me) singing 'Baby it's cold outside'.

Am I overreacting to pull out? At the moment I don't see how I can sit there through it.

Can you step off the stage for this number? Or will the choir be stacked on risers so you wouldn't be able to slip out discreetly?

There are many 'classic' songs that are not really OK any more - for example, there are regular concerns raised about Delilah, a song that glorifies domestic violence, and I wouldn't want to sing it. Even though I love Tom Jones.

I said “also...on junk” after advice had already said the other and I didn’t see the need to write it again. Yes I agree the insults are part of the storytelling of the song but there are radio edits of offensive words generally, so...

Can’t we agree though that songs are part of a storytelling tradition and that some of those stories will be dark? For e.g Delilah. The same as films and books have unpalatable things in them they shouldn’t be sanitised or erased completely. They are stories of all parts of life. Country music has many dark stories that I was raised on, and I think it made me a more empathetic person. I find things that are truly offensive often become forgotten gradually as time moves past them and they seem terribly dated, without need for censorship.

Omg just watched the clip of the original.... She CLEARLY WANTS TO STAY!!! how is this a problematic song???! Bonkers absolute bonkers

This has to be the most unintentionally hilarious thing I have read this Christmas. It is a great American standard from the 40's made famous by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan. When did call and response mutual flirtation become rape. It is both hilarious and sad that the Maoists are back in town.

Seriously ...... that's what you get from the song Baby it's cold outside? I take it you also ban the purple teletubby? I realize that you have your opinion but don't you think you have taken this a bit far? It's a shame you just didn't sit out and let the rest of us enjoy the old christmas song. Personally it has NOTHING to do with rape. Anybody can look at any song and take something nasty from it, so if it made you feel that uncomfortable did you ever experience rape for you to look at this song this way?

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