Banning classic yuletide favourite

Dear Editor: Just when you think you have heard it all – you haven’t!

We are now to understand that CBC and Corus Entertainment have banned “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” from their Christmas playlist because of “inappropriate lyrics in the wake of the #MeToo movement” (Courier, Herald, Dec. 7).

It seems that every song, every poem and every book ever written is now suspect for words that might possibly offend someone, somewhere.

If they’re going to ban “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” they’d better also ban “Silent Night,” a title that’s surely a cruel reminder to the hearing impaired who must live each night in silence.

And what about “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” where a depressed Charlie Brown tries to direct a Christmas play, but is mocked by his friends for doing so? There’s nothing funny about a depressed kid being bullied at school. Better pull that one, too. To ban a much-loved Christmas classic because its lyrics apparently offend a small minority is just the latest example of political correctness gone overboard. Whatever happened to common sense? Lisa Martin Penticton