Lately been seeing, again, conversation about the song "Baby Its Cold Outside" and people explaining period context and significance to indicate that this song, often interpreted as being about rape, is not 'really' or originally so.

One thing: analysis of the historical cultural context of art is valuable and informative, and may lead us to re-evaluate works we thought we already understood.

Two thing: culture changes, and as it changes so does the reception of art.

The song "Baby Its Cold Outside" may have an original context in which it is playful and not evocative of rape, but the world has changed since then and people who in the present interpret it as doing so or find the song makes them uncomfortable are not wrong or engaging in a failure of literacy. Neither are those whose concerns are lifted by such additional context.