CHRISTMAS

classic Baby, It’s Cold Outside, written 70 years ago, is under threat from #MeToo extremists. They say it’s all about a man pressuring a woman to stay the night and the line, ‘Say, what’s in this drink?/ No cabs to be had out there,’ is of particular concern as it implies date rape. But other feminists have hit back, insisting the song’s actually about an empowered woman being sexually bold and using the drink to give herself plausible deniability in a world where women were not meant to take the sexual lead. Call me old-fashioned, but I just think it’s a nice tune.