Does the #MeToo movement want women kicked out into the snow?

Peter Heck:
It’s been a long-standing position on the right that progressivism can, and if given enough time will, ruin everything. It’s a joyless, cheerless, hopeless ideology that breeds misery and thrives on perpetual discontent.

The latest pieces of evidence in that regard comes from recent attacks on Christmas classic. Start with the #MeToo movement attacking the holiday anthem “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” Apparently, it’s just a little too rapey for progressive sensibilities. But wait…there’s more. A recent post from the progressive flagship, Huffington Post, attacking of all things, the claymation Christmas classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

Acknowledging it as a timeless classic, the left-wing grievance-mongerers unleashed a torrent of politically correct, intersectional criticism that included these gems:

“Yearly reminder that #Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is a parable on racism & homophobia w/ Santa as a bigoted exploitative prick.”

Can’t imagine that’s going to land anyone on the nice list, it’s even more remarkable that someone can actually manage to find racism in a movie largely about non-human talking reindeer.

“Santa’s operation is an HR nightmare and in serious need of diversity and inclusion training.”

Again, these are little clay figurines positioned and photographed to make kids believe in a Christmas fantasy. I think someone might be reading a bit too much into it.
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It appears the #MeToo folks think that the male singer's concern for his lady friends welfare is disingenuous.   So kick her out in the snow and let get frostbite.  In some later day songs "cold" can have a different meaning as in Mark Chestnuts's classing "Too cold at home" explaining why he is hanging out in a beer joint.  It is one of my favorites and I would hate to see it get banned.  It has the classic lines "Too hot to fish.  Too hot for golf, and too cold at home."

As for "poor Rudolph", it never crossed my mind that anyone would think it had anything to do with racism or homosexuals.  In fact, it was a song that celebrated Rudolph's differences and valued them.

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