--- title: Feminist Version of 'Baby It's Cold Outside' description: It's very short canonical: https://time.com/3635706/feminist-baby-its-cold-outside/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-16T15:48:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:29.038Z og:title: This Feminist Twist on 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' Will Warm Your Heart og:description: It's very short og:url: https://time.com/3635706/feminist-baby-its-cold-outside/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte34f6018f3bceab2/69876f172dce01ff9b9dc7b0/screen-shot-2014-12-16-at-10-46-50-am.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-12-16 at 10.46.50 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Feminist Twist on 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' Will Warm Your Heart twitter:description: It's very short twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte34f6018f3bceab2/69876f172dce01ff9b9dc7b0/screen-shot-2014-12-16-at-10-46-50-am.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Feminist Twist on 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' Will Warm Your Heart  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Dec 16, 2014 3:48 PM UTC   by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Dec 16, 2014 3:48 PM UTC “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” may be a classic holiday song, but it’s kind of creepy. She’s like, “no, I have to go,” and he’s like “no, stay for sex purposes” and that’s pretty much the entire song. But the song was written in 1944, before the modern sensitivity to sexual pressure and consent, so it’s no surprise that we’re forced to listen to it in every elevator or glove store against our will. But here’s a feminist version. It cuts out the creepy stuff, which means it’s very, very short: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3635706/feminist-baby-its-cold-outside/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3635706/feminist-baby-its-cold-outside/"},"headline":"This Feminist Twist on 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' Will Warm Your Heart","datePublished":"2014-12-16T15:48:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:29.038Z","description":"It's very short","url":"https://time.com/3635706/feminist-baby-its-cold-outside/","keywords":["Living","Media","christmas","Songs","Feminist","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte34f6018f3bceab2/69876f172dce01ff9b9dc7b0/screen-shot-2014-12-16-at-10-46-50-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte34f6018f3bceab2/69876f172dce01ff9b9dc7b0/screen-shot-2014-12-16-at-10-46-50-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-12-16 at 10.46.50 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3635706/feminist-baby-its-cold-outside/","name":"This Feminist Twist on 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' Will Warm Your Heart"}}]}] ```