Ogden Nash: Sexual Predator

The politically correct and terminally sensitive have put out a revision of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” According to the concerned, the 1944 song “sounds hopelessly dated … in an age of informed consent and egalitarian relationships.”  One of the writers of the updated version of the song explained, “It was important to us to open a conversation about consent and make sure people's stories get told and the rhetoric gets changed.”

Apparently, when the current generation hears “say, what’s in this drink”, they think date rape drugs.  And the constant pleading in the song removes the necessary element of mutual constant from the sexual relationship.¹ 

The felt need to revise “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” made me think of similar things that would be unacceptable in the world we live in today, which of course brought Ogden Nash to mind: “Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.”

It is a good thing Mr. Nash is no longer with us.  He would be accused of encouraging sexual predation, and his books would be removed from college libraries all over the country.  Too many in today’s generation just can’t handle things like Ogden Nash.
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¹ On this point, also see here.