# But, if you really hold me tight. . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 19, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-if-you-really-hold-me-tight/644476 "2012-12-19T01:49:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-if-you-really-hold-me-tight/644476/41 "2012-12-20T00:05:23Z")
Incidentally, am I the only one who has (so far as I know) never heard “Baby, it’s cold out”? I mean, I get the general impression of what it’s about from threads like this, but I couldn’t tell you anything more than that. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-if-you-really-hold-me-tight/644476/42 "2012-12-20T05:54:05Z")
C’mon, let’s give the song’s composer a break. They had to use terms like “Let it snow” and “as long as you love me so” and “but if you really hold me tight” because terms like “cisgender” and “heteronormativity” and “transgressive sexuality” are HELL to work into a rhyme scheme! ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-if-you-really-hold-me-tight/644476/43 "2012-12-20T21:50:58Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Incidentally, am I the only one who has (so far as I know) never heard “Baby, it’s cold out”? I mean, I get the general impression of what it’s about from threads like this, but I couldn’t tell you anything more than that. Better to light one small candle than to, uh, complain about the cold outside: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0ZBFk-Y-4Jo/hqdefault.jpg "Louis Armstrong and Velma Middleton - "Baby, It's Cold Outside"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZBFk-Y-4Jo) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-if-you-really-hold-me-tight/644476/44 "2012-12-20T22:04:01Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > C’mon, let’s give the song’s composer a break. They had to use terms like “Let it snow” and “as long as you love me so” and “but if you really hold me tight” because terms like “cisgender” and “heteronormativity” and “transgressive sexuality” are HELL to work into a rhyme scheme! But better to rule in HELL than serve in Heaven!: Heteronormativity will Be cisgender, and that’s why we will Transgress sexuality– Let us be, let us be let us be. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_the_turtle/32/2926_2.png) [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_the_Turtle)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-if-you-really-hold-me-tight/644476/45 "2012-12-20T22:59:42Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Incidentally, am I the only one who has (so far as I know) never heard “Baby, it’s cold out”? I mean, I get the general impression of what it’s about from threads like this, but I couldn’t tell you anything more than that. I only know it because Key & Peele did a bit on it. Talking to the audience, they said “Doesn’t it sound rapey?”. Then showed a video. Google it for much hilarity ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-if-you-really-hold-me-tight/644476/46 "2012-12-20T23:13:38Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Every time I hear “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” it seems obvious to me that the man is her boss, married to someone else, and her cousin. So try [this version,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quaLQm_JhxU) performed by a squeaky-clean family group with nothing but innocent relations on their mind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/but-if-you-really-hold-me-tight/644476.md?page=2)