Christmas season is upon us! This also means that Christmas carols are here to stay on our radios for a good month. Now, I am all about the classics. I love "Sleigh Ride", "The Christmas Song", "I'll Be Home For Christmas." However, there is one "classic" that I simply refuse to listen to.

"Baby, It's Cold Outside" was first written in 1944 and first performed in 1948. The golden age of sexism. The song has been covered by several artists including Idina Menzel and Michael Buble, the cast of hit musical TV show, Glee, and Bing Crosby and Doris Day. Clearly, the song is deemed timeless in the industry.

My issue with this song are the incredibly sexist and rape-promoting lyrics. You may be thinking, "You're such an extreme feminist. It's only a Christmas carol! You're reading into it too much!" But I'm not. People have been pissed over the message of this song for quite some time, however the scrutiny is just starting to surface on social media now.

BABY ITS COLD OUTSIDE IS NOT ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT IT WAS WRITTEN BY A HUSBAND AND WIFE DUO AND “WHATS IN THIS DRINK” IS REFERRING TO THE KIND OF ALCOHOL THEY ARE DRINKING STOP RUINING CHRISTMAS AND FIND SOME POSITIVITY IN THE WORLD JEEZ https://t.co/yaYWZPzING
— Lex the Reindeer🎄 (@lkdesaracho) November">https://twitter.com/lkdesaracho/status/93344353989... 22, 2017

This twitter user thinks that feminists are here to RUIN Christmas! Oh no! Here come the big bad feminists again taking away all of our misogynist fun.

She's right about the song being written by a husband and wife, and I'm sure they meant to write simply about the alcohol they were drinking. But in this patriarchal society, lyrics like this shouldn't fly. Even if the two songwriters were bound by marriage, does that mean that the husband is incapable of rape or domestic abuse of any kind?

Even though the two of them were married does that mean that the lyrics lose their demanding tone? Because they were married does that mean "no" doesn't really mean "no"?

There is literally a lyric that says "The answer is no." The male part of the duet proceeds to ignore the female's request to leave.

Maybe, to you, the song is a harmless tune about a scandalous rendezvous. But to me, this song is about a woman who clearly doesn't want to hook up, and a man coercing her into getting what he wants because he is a man. Consent is consent. No means no; in a song, in conversations, in relationships, in society.