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DOC FUNNY WOKE ME UP

3 Simple Secrets for Successfully Conversing With Conspiracy Theorists & ‘Woke’ Folks

Don’t let rude ruin relationships

Jennifer McDougall
Doctor Funny
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5 min readJan 14, 2025

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And what will you be called today? They/Them/Potato Peeler? Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash

Woke this. Woke that.

Amid l̶e̶c̶t̶u̶r̶e̶s̶ “talk” about literacy, assessment and trauma at our most recent staff meeting, a bowl of wine gums makes its way around the room. We gorge. It’s the closest we will get to alcohol until the meeting ends. And survival at these gatherings requires some sort of chemical infusion. Especially to numb our reactions to our latest “directive”.

Top and foremost: we must use the word toboggan.

Let me provide you with some context for those of you whose reality involves sunburns or raging fires rather than -16 degrees Celsius and snow tunnels. I’m situated in Ontario, Canada. We don’t live in igloos or chill out with friendly neighborhood polar bears but it is cold and it is snowy.

Any spot with a slope greater than 2 degrees is ripe for tobogganing. At our local elementary school, we are blessed with both a “hill” and contradictory rules. Students aren’t allowed to lay a finger on a stick for fear of dismembered eyeballs rolling about beside the playground climber. Yet, somehow, we hand them a slimy chunk of plastic called a “crazy carpet”, point them…

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Jennifer McDougall
Jennifer McDougall

Written by Jennifer McDougall

Attempting Serious and Satire... Sometimes successful.

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