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        Android, Disappointed, and Fall: lamnewatthis
 @sandynewtothis
 Replying to @realDonaldTrump
 I have to pay $2000 MORE in taxes
 this year! What happened?? I voted
 for you and thought you were fixing
 this, not making it worse!? I thought l
 would get money back this year!?
 11:56 AM-2/1/19 Twitter for Android
 Bh
 @distorion12345
 Replying to @realDonaldTrump
 I just did my taxes and paid in /made
 the same as last year.l owe 4K more
 wtf.. I voted for Trump. But will not be
 next election
 7:06 PM 1/30/19 Twitter for iPhone
 Shelby Kuh
 @ShelbyKuh
 Replying to @realDonaldTrump
 I voted for you the first time but after
 you screwed me on my get tax break l
 won't vote for you again especially
 after I started on my 2018 return it's a
 joke the taxes you are keeping from a
 working person good luck in 2020
 5:23 AM.2/2/19 Twitter for iPhone
 Matt Davis
 @MattDav72811123
 @realDonaldTrump I trusted and
 voted for you, now, screwed by you. I
 fall JUST above a tax bracket, I don't
 get the 5000 return I've gotten the last
 3 years. Money my family depends on
 to start us over. I served my country
 honorably. I will not make the same
 mistake twice
 10:58 AM-1/30/19 Twitter for Android
 Dee Nelson
 @deeebeeezz
 @realDonaldTrump just did my taxes
 and thanks for increasing mine!! No
 change in income and got back $400
 less than last year. That campaign
 promise was one of the only two
 reasons l voted for you. Rethinking
 that decision now
 10:00 AM-1/27/19 Twitter for iPhone
 April Henderson
 @Amudrslr
 Replying to @realDonaldTrump
 We're paying $5,000 more in taxes for
 2018. Imagine our surprise! We voted
 for you, we have advocated for you, I
 have lost life long friends in support of
 you. I am truly disappointed. Not only
 have our taxes increased, but you've
 done nothing to fix our healthcare
 7:26 AM-2/3/19 Twitter for iPhone
 This is my new favorite genre of disappointed Trump voter. Meet the Trump
 voter taking it in the teeth at tax time.
 How unsurprising "Fuck you, got mine" becomes a simple tuck you" in a flash.
 Source.cognitivedissonance
 12,021 notes
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                    Android, Disappointed, and Fall: lamnewatthis
 @sandynewtothis
 Replying to @realDonaldTrump
 I have to pay $2000 MORE in taxes
 this year! What happened?? I voted
 for you and thought you were fixing
 this, not making it worse!? I thought l
 would get money back this year!?
 11:56 AM-2/1/19 Twitter for Android
 Bh
 @distorion12345
 Replying to @realDonaldTrump
 I just did my taxes and paid in /made
 the same as last year.l owe 4K more
 wtf.. I voted for Trump. But will not be
 next election
 7:06 PM 1/30/19 Twitter for iPhone
 Shelby Kuh
 @ShelbyKuh
 Replying to @realDonaldTrump
 I voted for you the first time but after
 you screwed me on my get tax break l
 won't vote for you again especially
 after I started on my 2018 return it's a
 joke the taxes you are keeping from a
 working person good luck in 2020
 5:23 AM.2/2/19 Twitter for iPhone
 Matt Davis
 @MattDav72811123
 @realDonaldTrump I trusted and
 voted for you, now, screwed by you. I
 fall JUST above a tax bracket, I don't
 get the 5000 return I've gotten the last
 3 years. Money my family depends on
 to start us over. I served my country
 honorably. I will not make the same
 mistake twice
 10:58 AM-1/30/19 Twitter for Android
 Dee Nelson
 @deeebeeezz
 @realDonaldTrump just did my taxes
 and thanks for increasing mine!! No
 change in income and got back $400
 less than last year. That campaign
 promise was one of the only two
 reasons l voted for you. Rethinking
 that decision now
 10:00 AM-1/27/19 Twitter for iPhone
 April Henderson
 @Amudrslr
 Replying to @realDonaldTrump
 We're paying $5,000 more in taxes for
 2018. Imagine our surprise! We voted
 for you, we have advocated for you, I
 have lost life long friends in support of
 you. I am truly disappointed. Not only
 have our taxes increased, but you've
 done nothing to fix our healthcare
 7:26 AM-2/3/19 Twitter for iPhone
 This is my new favorite genre of disappointed Trump voter. Meet the Trump
 voter taking it in the teeth at tax time.
 How unsurprising "Fuck you, got mine" becomes a simple tuck you" in a flash.
 Source.cognitivedissonance
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        America, Arguing, and Facts: z @ONLYAVGEL 1d
 girls who weren't scared to say they
 liked 1d in 2012 are braver than the
 marines
 207
 15.2K
 54.9K
 C-Cups @cameronunion 8h
 This Is disgusting
 4
 01
 49
 z @ONLYAVGEL 8h
 grow up
 2
 ) 229
 C-Cups @cameronunion 8h
 Grow up? You're insulting the people
 that help give you freedom. It's not
 about being grown, it's about respect.
 73
 z @ONLYAVGEL 7h
 it's a joke. just like this country and i
 don't need to respect anything or
 anyone
 3
 643

 Toxic Kiwi @DesireeWolf182 2h
 The military is why you have freedom. If
 you cannot appreciate them then you
 do not deserve freedom
 6
 O 10
 z @ONLYAVGEL 2h
 wrong. we have freedom because of
 one direction
 4
 062560
 Toxic Kiwi @DesireeWolf182 2h
 That literally made no sense. Get over
 yourself and admit to being
 disrespectful to people who give their
 lives so we can live feely.
 2
 2
 z @ONLYAVGEL 2h
 who gives us freedom?
 one direction
 80%
 the military
 20%
 2,280 votes 21 hours 18 minutes left

 one direction O
 80%
 the military
 20%
 2,280 votes 21 hours 17 minutes left
 5
 64
 79
 Toxic Kiwi @DesireeWolf182 2h
 Anyone who votes One Direction is a
 privileged scumbag like you. Spoiled
 kids make me wanna puke.
 t01
 love, kylie
 @FEELINGBLOO
 Replying to @DesireeWolf182 and @ONLYAVGEL
 one direction literally fought for our
 right to be skinny in america Imao
 open a history book
 2018-02-28, 10:54 PM

 Anyone who votes One Direction is a
 privileged scumbag like you. Spoiled
 kids make me wanna puke.
 ロ1
 melanie @lilanemic. 2h
 There's literally pictures of Harry Styles
 fighting in World War ll you can't argue
 with facts. He's an American hero.
 z @ONLYAVGEL 2h
 thank u so much for bringing this up.
 it's a piece of history that many like to
 overlook
 96
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                    America, Arguing, and Facts: z @ONLYAVGEL 1d
 girls who weren't scared to say they
 liked 1d in 2012 are braver than the
 marines
 207
 15.2K
 54.9K
 C-Cups @cameronunion 8h
 This Is disgusting
 4
 01
 49
 z @ONLYAVGEL 8h
 grow up
 2
 ) 229
 C-Cups @cameronunion 8h
 Grow up? You're insulting the people
 that help give you freedom. It's not
 about being grown, it's about respect.
 73
 z @ONLYAVGEL 7h
 it's a joke. just like this country and i
 don't need to respect anything or
 anyone
 3
 643

 Toxic Kiwi @DesireeWolf182 2h
 The military is why you have freedom. If
 you cannot appreciate them then you
 do not deserve freedom
 6
 O 10
 z @ONLYAVGEL 2h
 wrong. we have freedom because of
 one direction
 4
 062560
 Toxic Kiwi @DesireeWolf182 2h
 That literally made no sense. Get over
 yourself and admit to being
 disrespectful to people who give their
 lives so we can live feely.
 2
 2
 z @ONLYAVGEL 2h
 who gives us freedom?
 one direction
 80%
 the military
 20%
 2,280 votes 21 hours 18 minutes left

 one direction O
 80%
 the military
 20%
 2,280 votes 21 hours 17 minutes left
 5
 64
 79
 Toxic Kiwi @DesireeWolf182 2h
 Anyone who votes One Direction is a
 privileged scumbag like you. Spoiled
 kids make me wanna puke.
 t01
 love, kylie
 @FEELINGBLOO
 Replying to @DesireeWolf182 and @ONLYAVGEL
 one direction literally fought for our
 right to be skinny in america Imao
 open a history book
 2018-02-28, 10:54 PM

 Anyone who votes One Direction is a
 privileged scumbag like you. Spoiled
 kids make me wanna puke.
 ロ1
 melanie @lilanemic. 2h
 There's literally pictures of Harry Styles
 fighting in World War ll you can't argue
 with facts. He's an American hero.
 z @ONLYAVGEL 2h
 thank u so much for bringing this up.
 it's a piece of history that many like to
 overlook
 96
 t13 198
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        Baby, It's Cold Outside, Christmas, and Definitely: Andrew Rannells
 @AndrewRannells
 I don't think any more people
 need to record Baby It's Cold
 Outside. I think we're good there
 teachingwithcoffee
 It's time to bring an end to the Rape Anthem
 Masquerading As Christmas Carol
 bigbutterandeggman
 Hi there! Former English nerd/teacher here
 Also a big fan of jazz of the 30s and 40s
 So. Here's the thing. Given a cursory glance and
 applying today's worldview to the song, yes,
 you're right, it absolutely *sounds* like a rape
 anthem.
 BUT! Let's look closer!
 "Hey what's in this drink" was a stock joke at the
 time, and the punchline was invariably that
 there's actually pretty much nothing in the drink,
 not even a significant amount of alcohol
 See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned,
 at a dudes house. In the 1940's, that's the kind
 of thing Good Girls aren't supposed to do-and
 she wants people to think she's a good girl. The
 woman in the song says outright, multiple
 times, that what other people will think of her
 staying is what shes really concerned about
 "the neighbors might think" "my maiden aunt's
 mind is vicious," "there's bound to be talk
 tomorrow." But she's having a really good time,
 and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing
 her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to
 the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink
 -unaware that the drink is actually really weak,
 maybe not even alcoholic at all. That's the joke
 That is the standard joke that's going on when a
 woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th
 century says "hey, what's in this drink?" It is not
 a joke about how she's drunk and about to be
 raped. It's a joke about how she's perfectly
 sober and about to have awesome consensual
 sex and use the drink for plausible deniability
 because she's living in a society where women
 aren't supposed to have sexual agency
 Basically, the song only makes sense in the
 context of a society in which women are
 expected to reject mens advances whether they
 actually want to or not, and therefore it's normal
 and expected for a lady's gentleman companion
 to pressure her despite her protests, because he
 knows she would have to say that whether or
 not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay
 she won't be able to justify doing so unless he
 offers her an excuse other than "I'm staying
 because I want to." (That's the main theme of
 the man's lines in the song, suggesting excuses
 she can use when people ask later why she
 spent the night at his house: it was so cold out,
 there were no cabs available, he simply insisted
 because he was concerned about my safety in
 such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent
 and definitely not about sex at all!) In this
 particular case, he's pretty clearly right, because
 the woman has a voice, and she's using it to
 give all the culturally-understood signals that
 she actually does want to stay but can't say so
 She states explicitly that she's resisting because
 shes supposed to, not because she wants to: "I
 ought to say no no no..." She states explicitly
 that she's just putting up a token resistance so
 she'll be able to claim later that she did whats
 expected of a decent woman in this situation:
 "at least I'm gonna say that I tried." And at the
 end of the song they're singing together, in
 harmony, because they're both on the same
 page and they have been all along
 So it's not actually a song about rape in fact it's
 a song about a woman finding a way to exercise
 sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed
 to stop her from doing so. But it's also, at the
 same time, one of the best illustrations of rape
 culture that pop culture has ever produced. It's a
 song about a society where women aren't
 allowed to say yes..which happens to mean it's
 also a society where women don't have a clear
 and unambiguous way to say no
 Source: matchingvnecks #baby it's cold outside
 #not about rape #so tired of having to explain this on
 238,267 notes
 Dec 3rd, 2016
Its that time of year again
        

            
            

                
                
                    Baby, It's Cold Outside, Christmas, and Definitely: Andrew Rannells
 @AndrewRannells
 I don't think any more people
 need to record Baby It's Cold
 Outside. I think we're good there
 teachingwithcoffee
 It's time to bring an end to the Rape Anthem
 Masquerading As Christmas Carol
 bigbutterandeggman
 Hi there! Former English nerd/teacher here
 Also a big fan of jazz of the 30s and 40s
 So. Here's the thing. Given a cursory glance and
 applying today's worldview to the song, yes,
 you're right, it absolutely *sounds* like a rape
 anthem.
 BUT! Let's look closer!
 "Hey what's in this drink" was a stock joke at the
 time, and the punchline was invariably that
 there's actually pretty much nothing in the drink,
 not even a significant amount of alcohol
 See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned,
 at a dudes house. In the 1940's, that's the kind
 of thing Good Girls aren't supposed to do-and
 she wants people to think she's a good girl. The
 woman in the song says outright, multiple
 times, that what other people will think of her
 staying is what shes really concerned about
 "the neighbors might think" "my maiden aunt's
 mind is vicious," "there's bound to be talk
 tomorrow." But she's having a really good time,
 and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing
 her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to
 the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink
 -unaware that the drink is actually really weak,
 maybe not even alcoholic at all. That's the joke
 That is the standard joke that's going on when a
 woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th
 century says "hey, what's in this drink?" It is not
 a joke about how she's drunk and about to be
 raped. It's a joke about how she's perfectly
 sober and about to have awesome consensual
 sex and use the drink for plausible deniability
 because she's living in a society where women
 aren't supposed to have sexual agency
 Basically, the song only makes sense in the
 context of a society in which women are
 expected to reject mens advances whether they
 actually want to or not, and therefore it's normal
 and expected for a lady's gentleman companion
 to pressure her despite her protests, because he
 knows she would have to say that whether or
 not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay
 she won't be able to justify doing so unless he
 offers her an excuse other than "I'm staying
 because I want to." (That's the main theme of
 the man's lines in the song, suggesting excuses
 she can use when people ask later why she
 spent the night at his house: it was so cold out,
 there were no cabs available, he simply insisted
 because he was concerned about my safety in
 such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent
 and definitely not about sex at all!) In this
 particular case, he's pretty clearly right, because
 the woman has a voice, and she's using it to
 give all the culturally-understood signals that
 she actually does want to stay but can't say so
 She states explicitly that she's resisting because
 shes supposed to, not because she wants to: "I
 ought to say no no no..." She states explicitly
 that she's just putting up a token resistance so
 she'll be able to claim later that she did whats
 expected of a decent woman in this situation:
 "at least I'm gonna say that I tried." And at the
 end of the song they're singing together, in
 harmony, because they're both on the same
 page and they have been all along
 So it's not actually a song about rape in fact it's
 a song about a woman finding a way to exercise
 sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed
 to stop her from doing so. But it's also, at the
 same time, one of the best illustrations of rape
 culture that pop culture has ever produced. It's a
 song about a society where women aren't
 allowed to say yes..which happens to mean it's
 also a society where women don't have a clear
 and unambiguous way to say no
 Source: matchingvnecks #baby it's cold outside
 #not about rape #so tired of having to explain this on
 238,267 notes
 Dec 3rd, 2016
Its that time of year again
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        Amazon, Bad, and Fire: wereralph
 y'all out here reblogging this like it's a joke but come December if we all banded
 together and didn't go to work, aint none of these big companies gonna be able
 to make quota and what the fuck can they do, fire like 10,000 people nation-
 wide and hope they can train enough people in on day to tip the scale back?
 fuck no, they're gonna have to eat that loss, and even if its only one day, that's
 gonna set millions of amazon orders back. its gonna fuck walmart's whole thing
 sam walton can suck a cock. these companies aint got no
 yall still think its a joke. and honestly if y'all want a fucking pay raise that bad
 put up or go home and show they asses that they aint nothing but a name
 without bottom-level workers like us for like 3 days and something is gonna
 have to give
 december 20th 2018 is gonna be national fuck work
 day
socalledunitedstates:
Don’t do this
General strikes are a big deal. They need organization, mass support, an agreed-upon list of demands, related demonstrations, etc. It’s not as easy as 10k people across the country at multiple different jobs not showing up - despite what you think, that will be seen as 10k independent occurrences and will result in several thousand firings for no call/no shows with no other notice paid. Even if this wildcat general strike gets enough traction to be seen as an actual threat (which is unlikely as just a viral tumblr post), the government will simply respond with arrests and brutality as they have in the past, and no part of this post prepares people for that
Instead, participate in the Earth Strike on January 15th to demand corporate and government action against climate change
And don’t just decide to do it on your own - talk to your coworkers, get in touch with local unions and your IWW branch, talk to local chapters of climate activism groups like Rising Tide, 350.org, and Transition Towns to organize concurrent demonstrations and actions, and spread the word as much as you can so we can get some steam behind this in the 2 months we have to prepare
“Fuck Work Day” would probably just make things worse while scaring people off from participating in the real coordinated action less than a month later

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                    Amazon, Bad, and Fire: wereralph
 y'all out here reblogging this like it's a joke but come December if we all banded
 together and didn't go to work, aint none of these big companies gonna be able
 to make quota and what the fuck can they do, fire like 10,000 people nation-
 wide and hope they can train enough people in on day to tip the scale back?
 fuck no, they're gonna have to eat that loss, and even if its only one day, that's
 gonna set millions of amazon orders back. its gonna fuck walmart's whole thing
 sam walton can suck a cock. these companies aint got no
 yall still think its a joke. and honestly if y'all want a fucking pay raise that bad
 put up or go home and show they asses that they aint nothing but a name
 without bottom-level workers like us for like 3 days and something is gonna
 have to give
 december 20th 2018 is gonna be national fuck work
 day
socalledunitedstates:
Don’t do this
General strikes are a big deal. They need organization, mass support, an agreed-upon list of demands, related demonstrations, etc. It’s not as easy as 10k people across the country at multiple different jobs not showing up - despite what you think, that will be seen as 10k independent occurrences and will result in several thousand firings for no call/no shows with no other notice paid. Even if this wildcat general strike gets enough traction to be seen as an actual threat (which is unlikely as just a viral tumblr post), the government will simply respond with arrests and brutality as they have in the past, and no part of this post prepares people for that
Instead, participate in the Earth Strike on January 15th to demand corporate and government action against climate change
And don’t just decide to do it on your own - talk to your coworkers, get in touch with local unions and your IWW branch, talk to local chapters of climate activism groups like Rising Tide, 350.org, and Transition Towns to organize concurrent demonstrations and actions, and spread the word as much as you can so we can get some steam behind this in the 2 months we have to prepare
“Fuck Work Day” would probably just make things worse while scaring people off from participating in the real coordinated action less than a month later

Please signal boost this post!

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        Baby, It's Cold Outside, Christmas, and Definitely: I don't think any more people
 need to record Baby It's Cold
 Outside. I think we're good there
 teachingwithcoffee
 It's time to bring an end to the Rape Anthem
 Masquerading As Christmas Caral
 bigbutterandeggman
 Hi there! Former English nerd/teacher here. Also
 a big fan of jazz of the 30s and 40s
 So. Here's the thing. Given a cursory glance
 and applying today's worldview to the song.
 yes, you're right, it absolutely 'sounds' like a
 rape anthem.
 BUTI Let's look closerl
 "Hey what's in this drink" was a stock joke at
 the time, and the punchline was invariably that
 there's actually pretty much nothing in the drink,
 not even a significant amount of alcohol.
 See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned
 at a dude's house. In the 1940's, that's the kind
 of thing Good Girls aren't supposed to do -
 and she wants people to think she's a good girl.
 The woman in the song says outright, multiple
 times, that what other people will think of her
 staying is what she's really concerned about:
 the neighbors might think," "my maiden aunt's
 mind is vicious," "there's bound to be talk
 tomorrow." But she's having a really good time
 and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing
 her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to
 the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink
 - unaware that the drink is actually really weak
 maybe not even alcoholic at all. That's the joke.
 That is the standard joke that's going on when a
 woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th
 century says "hey, what's in this drink?" It is not
 a joke about how she's drunk and about to be
 raped. It's a joke about how she's perfectly
 sober and about to have awesome consensual
 sex and use the drink for plausible deniability
 because she's living in a society where women
 aren't supposed to have sexual agency
 Basically, the song only makes sense in the
 ext of a society in which women are
 expected to reject men's advances whether
 they actually want to or not, and therefore it's
 normal and expected for a lady's gentleman
 companion to pressure her despite her protests
 because he knows she would have to say that
 whether or not she meant it, and if she really
 wants to stay she won't be able to justify doing
 so unless he offers her an excuse other than
 "I'm staying because I want to." (That's the
 main theme of the man's lines in the song
 suggesting excuses she can use when people
 ask later why she spent the night at his house: it
 was so cold out, there were no cabs available,
 he simply insisted because he was concerned
 about my safety in such awful weather, it was
 perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex
 at all!) In this particular case, he's pretty clearly
 right, because the woman has a voice, and
 she's using it to give all the culturally-
 understood signals that she actually does want
 to stay but can't say so. She states explicitly
 that she's resisting because she's supposed to,
 not because she wants to: "l ought to say no no
 no..." She states explicitly that she's just
 putting up a token resistance so she'll be able
 to claim later that she did what's expected of a
 decent woman in this situation: "at least I'm
 oonna sav that I tried. And at the end of the
 that she's resisting because she's supposed to
 not because she wants to: "l ought to say no no
 no..." She states explicitly that she's just
 putting up a token resistance so she' ll be able
 to claim later that she did what's expected of a
 decent woman in this situation: "at least I'm
 gonna say thatI tried." And at the end of the
 song they're singing together, in harmony
 because they're both on the same page and
 they have been all along.
 So it's not actually a song about rape in fact
 it's a song about a woman finding a way to
 exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society
 designed to stop her from doing so. But it's
 also, at the same time, one of the best
 llustrations of rape culture that pop culture has
 ever produced. It's a song about a society
 where women aren't allowed to say yes...which
 happens to mean it's also a society where
 women don't have a clear and unambiguous
 way to say no.
 Source:matchinovnecks #baby it's cold outside
 #not about rape
 #30 tired of having to explain this one
 196,155 notes
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                    Baby, It's Cold Outside, Christmas, and Definitely: I don't think any more people
 need to record Baby It's Cold
 Outside. I think we're good there
 teachingwithcoffee
 It's time to bring an end to the Rape Anthem
 Masquerading As Christmas Caral
 bigbutterandeggman
 Hi there! Former English nerd/teacher here. Also
 a big fan of jazz of the 30s and 40s
 So. Here's the thing. Given a cursory glance
 and applying today's worldview to the song.
 yes, you're right, it absolutely 'sounds' like a
 rape anthem.
 BUTI Let's look closerl
 "Hey what's in this drink" was a stock joke at
 the time, and the punchline was invariably that
 there's actually pretty much nothing in the drink,
 not even a significant amount of alcohol.
 See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned
 at a dude's house. In the 1940's, that's the kind
 of thing Good Girls aren't supposed to do -
 and she wants people to think she's a good girl.
 The woman in the song says outright, multiple
 times, that what other people will think of her
 staying is what she's really concerned about:
 the neighbors might think," "my maiden aunt's
 mind is vicious," "there's bound to be talk
 tomorrow." But she's having a really good time
 and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing
 her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to
 the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink
 - unaware that the drink is actually really weak
 maybe not even alcoholic at all. That's the joke.
 That is the standard joke that's going on when a
 woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th
 century says "hey, what's in this drink?" It is not
 a joke about how she's drunk and about to be
 raped. It's a joke about how she's perfectly
 sober and about to have awesome consensual
 sex and use the drink for plausible deniability
 because she's living in a society where women
 aren't supposed to have sexual agency
 Basically, the song only makes sense in the
 ext of a society in which women are
 expected to reject men's advances whether
 they actually want to or not, and therefore it's
 normal and expected for a lady's gentleman
 companion to pressure her despite her protests
 because he knows she would have to say that
 whether or not she meant it, and if she really
 wants to stay she won't be able to justify doing
 so unless he offers her an excuse other than
 "I'm staying because I want to." (That's the
 main theme of the man's lines in the song
 suggesting excuses she can use when people
 ask later why she spent the night at his house: it
 was so cold out, there were no cabs available,
 he simply insisted because he was concerned
 about my safety in such awful weather, it was
 perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex
 at all!) In this particular case, he's pretty clearly
 right, because the woman has a voice, and
 she's using it to give all the culturally-
 understood signals that she actually does want
 to stay but can't say so. She states explicitly
 that she's resisting because she's supposed to,
 not because she wants to: "l ought to say no no
 no..." She states explicitly that she's just
 putting up a token resistance so she'll be able
 to claim later that she did what's expected of a
 decent woman in this situation: "at least I'm
 oonna sav that I tried. And at the end of the
 that she's resisting because she's supposed to
 not because she wants to: "l ought to say no no
 no..." She states explicitly that she's just
 putting up a token resistance so she' ll be able
 to claim later that she did what's expected of a
 decent woman in this situation: "at least I'm
 gonna say thatI tried." And at the end of the
 song they're singing together, in harmony
 because they're both on the same page and
 they have been all along.
 So it's not actually a song about rape in fact
 it's a song about a woman finding a way to
 exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society
 designed to stop her from doing so. But it's
 also, at the same time, one of the best
 llustrations of rape culture that pop culture has
 ever produced. It's a song about a society
 where women aren't allowed to say yes...which
 happens to mean it's also a society where
 women don't have a clear and unambiguous
 way to say no.
 Source:matchinovnecks #baby it's cold outside
 #not about rape
 #30 tired of having to explain this one
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