In the 1950s there was a young woman from New York City who put herself through Sarah Lawrence by working in commercials and on television shows. Come December, before the first snowfall, we’ll see a flurry of articles about “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” now often called the “date-rape song.” We'll read opinion pieces and watch parodies that place this song squarely in the camp of a "no means yes" patriarchy, a story about a man who uses alcohol and coercion to make a reluctant woman stay the night.īut what if the writer of the song was actually a feminist? What if Frank Loesser, the famed lyricist of "Guys and Dolls" and "How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying," should be thought of as a progressive voice in the fight for gender equality, as a man who was ahead of his time in recognizing and calling attention to the social plight of women?
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