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    'Baby, It's Cold Outside,' Seen As Sexist, Frozen Out By Radio Stations

    Programmers have banned the song after fielding listener complaints that the song is offensive, only to face a backlash against that decision.
    by Amy Held Dec 05, 2018 2 minutes
    Composer Frank Loesser with his wife and musical partner, Lynn Garland, in 1956 in New York. Decades later, Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is being banned by radio stations.

    This #MeToo-era-cum-yuletide-season, radio stations are pulling the plug on that holiday earworm with lyrics that, to some, ring date-rape warning bells, rather than evoking innocent snow-bound flirtation.

    The tune "Baby, It's Cold Outside," with words that seemed charming when FDR was in office, may land with a tone-deaf thud on the ear of

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