Saskatchewan Lax Team Under Fire for Having a 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' Singalong.
Source – A promotion by the Saskatchewan Rush of the National Lacrosse League to get fans involved in a singalong of what has become a controversial Christmas favourite is being called silly and tasteless in some postings to social media.
Every home game of the Saskatoon-based club features a singalong and during halftime at an exhibition match against the Calgary Roughnecks last Saturday the lyrics to the 1944 classic “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” were projected on a giant screen, with fans urged to belt them out. …
Some comments posted later on the team’s Facebook site questioned why the Rush would get involved with renewed scrutiny of what some people have said are the song’s inappropriate lyrics in light of the #MeToo movement. …
Rush owner Bruce Urban says the intent was to poke fun at how overly sensitive society has become.
“You’re simply mocking the people who stood up to say, ‘Hey, this song seems a little creepy, especially given the current political climate,”’ read one of the comments on the team’s Facebook site.
Another quipped: “Why not put this kind of effort into something that matters? There are a lot of homeless folks that could use energy like this to help them when it’s cold outside.”
One person said the promotion mocked those who say the song sounds “a little creepy,” especially given the current political climate.
“This display wasn’t about calling out a dumb piece of news. This was about a professional male athletics team letting it be known that conversations regarding consent are trivial and a joke. Maybe next time, have a little class.”
Nice try, Bruce Urban. But we’re onto you. You might be trying to pass yourself off as just trying to have a little harmless fun with a 74 year old song, but the SJWs know you’re really mocking the people who say “Hey, this song seems a little creepy given the current political climate.” The Rush might be NLL champions, but that doesn’t make you above the law.
And it’s so typical. Exactly the kind of toxic masculinity we’ve come to expect from these testosterone-fueled members of the patriarchy. Trying to pass it off like they’re trying to entertain their paying customers with a little harmless fun. When the truth is, there’s lots of harm being done. Celebrating Dean Martin trying to use bad weather as an excuse to seduce his date is the same as promoting date rape culture. (The same goes for the Michael Buble’ version or Leon Redbone singing it with Zooey Deschanel at the end of Elf.) Trying to have fun with an old song is just a professional athletics team letting it be know that conversations regarding consent are trivial and a joke.
Well you know what is NOT a joke? Helping the homeless, that’s what. It’s really cold outside and the Saskatchewan Rush probably could’ve built a hundred permanent housing units for them with the energy they expended putting a song up on the Jumbotron and singing along with it. You might as well just be slipping women the Hot Cosby and killing the homeless with your bare hands. We can just consider us all lucky we’ve got the Facebook followers of a Canadian pro lacrosse team here to save the world for us, because obviously Bruce Urban and the Rush don’t care.