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* Similarly, "Baby It's Cold Outside" is not well-liked in feminist circles, because at a superficial hearing it depicts a man pressuring a woman into sex.
** In a world with date rape drugs, the woman's line "what's in this drink?" is much harsher than it would have been in the Forties.
** What's funny is that, at the time, the song was supposed to imply that the woman was ''voluntarily'' staying the night with the man, which was very daring for that era. At the time the song was written it was still somewhat unacceptable that a unmarried couple were left alone without a chaperon, lest the woman's reputation took a dive; most of the lyrics are the typical "acceptable" excuses that could be used in such circumstances and the lady's protests are supposed to be nominal (in a "I have to go but I really don't want to" sort of way), hence the lines about the drink and the
* [[ABBA]] isn’t immune to this either. When one listens to “Does Your Mother Know”, it would be deemed inappropriate due to the subject matter, even though
** “When I Kissed a Teacher” would also fall under this due the recent{{when}} controversy with [[Teacher-Student Romance]], even if it was the student who stated it.
* When "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" was new, it was regarded as humorous. Now as
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