I don't want to ping-pong in discussions all day. What I don't want to say is that the PoundMeToo movement (despite some incidental good coming from it) has too easily caused programmers to cave. It is in itself the untraceable gun being passed around. False binaries rule. "Oh, you won't ban that song? You and your sponsors must be pro-rape. You insensitive bastards!" People have been radicalized beyond reason. And I say this on principle. Baby it's Cold is not my cup of tea - I didn't get exposure to it until a few years back. On principle - and this makes me look like an arsehole at first blush - I passionately resist letting things go at the behest of or ostensibly to protect unstable people. And I celebrate provocative material. I make sure to show people Team America: World Police or The Dictator (genius hybrid of rom-com format and scathing satire of evil and idealism at once), and Heathers. My own writing stomps on eggshells. When last year I realized Dave and some support structure for Porno the Clown would steer away from my writing and not vindicate 10 years (off and on) of work, that was largely the same issue. My glib fidelity to my drawings and inflammatory rejoinders versus what the kids today sarcastically call SJW sensibility watering it down. That would have been a nightmare. So I don't want to be disingenuous. I recently wrote a rant about the dynamic of victims becoming offenders in many cases and how their acting out these days may only be imposing control over what the rest of us can see or hear. I have attended on air show to cover it for community TV - nightmare for the neck and eyes. Not a dog in this fight. But advocates for the triggered immigrant have their argument and I may be in favor of the conflict as natural but not necessarily a contrived resolution to the conflict. As for muzac of Baby it's Cold Outside I call bullshit. I would not have likely recognized the melody in 50 years on this earth, and it is only some "busybody" kicking off a dark interpretation that gets folks like Chae affronted and taking it personally. Months back I realized she was chiming in a lot and personally triggered and she disclosed her personal trauma so since I had not added her in the first place I blocked her because I expected I might answer future posts on Angela's FB. Didn't bother bringing it up when I was one of two audience members for the Pirate Ship show, but no doubt Dave read her a post on your thread. To be honest I suspect her influence on Dave doomed the planned version of PTC. Sorry this note is long. This is how my day starts. I like movies and music to kick people in the ass. A makes person walking down University may not be appropriate but it is the germ that tests the immune system. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A few people got it into their heads that I have suggested funds are being raised to bribe radio stations to ban the song Baby it's cold outside. That is an example of someone interjecting bat guano into a discussion. It would be redundant to bribe a radio station to ban a song after the down hill momentum of social media frenzy has gotten rolling against it. Some otherwise intelligent people have embraced the idea that one person's alleged bad reaction to a song on mall musac is everybody's problem. I can understand a boyfriend taking that on as his protective mission for his perpetually triggered girlfriend. But no doubt hearing the melody of a song that SOME people have officially misinterpreted can't be so upsetting as my own (often strained polite) social media posts which are text that merely fail to parrot the popular lies of the day. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Clarification/correction. Meg Lily put a spin on my words, "When certain slacktivists begin to lobby.... Money talks". Does NOT mean they are bribing programmers. They don't need to be bribed. Lobby can mean e-mailing or boycotting - actions that can detract or distract and cause mischaracterization of a station or studio and hurt the bottom line and life's too short. They have other songs or shows. So again, not money coming in but lack of profit coming in is the meaning intended for money talks. All the google hits I got got for " Ban Baby its cold outside" were each a report of a different radio station dropping the song "in the wake of the PoundMeToo movement." I say that's preemptive action and FEAR of being perceived as on the wrong "side" of that hashtag / lightening rod.