Freeze!

 Sunlight is waning as tree leaves change their colors, preparing to drop them for an annual winter slumber.  Along with the abbreviated sunlight come colder temperatures ushering in bitter winds, hibernating wildlife, and possibly snow.

 

This repeated ritual varies depending on where you reside – some locations will receive feet of blustery snow, while others will have to deal with more temperate climates on their sandy beaches.

 

Nonetheless, this is an ideal time to prepare with heating provisions or sunscreen, depending on your individual situation.

 

Tucked away near the shore of Lake Erie in Oberlin, Ohio, is appropriately-named Oberlin College and Conservatory.  Oberlin is a liberal arts school that offers courses in music, science, history, and English literature. And being so close to Lake Erie means bitterly cold, snow-swept winter winds licking its campus buildings.

 

With an annual tuition hovering around $77,000, Oberlin is not an inexpensive school by any measure.

 

It prides itself as an institution that holds its attendees to high standards, with a desired GPA of 3.47, something I could never achieve (even with a cash bribe.)  But I digress.

 

Evidently, Oberlin College has undergone an austerity program to better manage their precious funds.  As a result, many regular employees have been outsourced to contractors in an effort to save money.

 

Unfortunately, along with new workers come new issues.

 

So it was with interest that I recently heard about someone of the weaker sex – and an Oberlin College and Conservatory student – whining about Oberlin’s dorms rehabilitating their heating system.

BRRRRRRR!

 

Not sure of the age or mechanics of any heating system, much less that of Oberlin College, I cannot speak with authority.  However, with decades of cold weather under my belt, I can speak with authority that life is much better when you have heat during cold winter months.  I’m just saying.

 

In any case, this referenced concerned student is what the new world calls “woke.”  Woke is when someone complains about someone or something, or the anointed among us are simply trying to make the rest of us “aware.”  That’s just what I need – another parent.

 

These wokers – for lack of a better term – feel compelled to help Neanderthals, like me, navigate through life.  But as the old saying goes: “Who died and left you boss?”

 

Back to Oberlin College.  That aforementioned whiney student learned through a written notice that The College was attempting to correct heating deficiencies by using contractors to repair and/or modify their system to keep the kiddies toasty warm.

 

This is where the good part begins.

 

Our previously mentioned woke student – Peter Fray-Witzer – felt compelled to let the less educated and unaware college administrators know that they were neglect in communicating the heating situation to the students.

 

In an op-ed appearing in the college’s Oberlin Review newspaper, Fray-Witzer slammed “school administrators for only giving students one day’s notice” about the radiator upgrades in his dorm.

 

“I was angry, scared, and confused.  Why didn’t the College complete the installation over the summer, when the building was empty,” the letter continued.  Fray-Witzer stated he was “very averse to people entering” his personal space.  He continued about “the fact that the crew would be strangers, and they were more than likely to be cisgender men.”

 

Fray-Witzer’s dismay is clearly evident, if only because of the use of “cisgender.”  Cisgender is a woke word meaning identifying with the gender you were ‘assigned’ at birth.  Not personally being woke, I learned Burger King didn't have their slogan right: “Have it your way.”  I told you I was a Neanderthal.

 

So, to recap, Fray-Witzer is angry and scared and confused because a radiator repair man was contracted to keep him warm.  And, he seems upset the radiator guy likely identified as a man, but we’re not sure if he does, because of Fray-Witzer’s bias against normal.

 

Plus, he may not want his dorm room warm during the dead of an Ohio winter, but we’re not exactly sure.  We do know that Fray-Witzer is a complainer, and an attention-getter who is interested in only himself and his needs and wants.

 

It will be interesting to see how Peter Fray-Witzer melds into society upon graduation, and what sort of job he gets thereafter.

 

Just imagine him entering a workspace with cisgender men, cisgender women, transgender folks, or whomever these woke, anointed college pukes would like to identify.  Those future employers won’t likely be as accommodating as Oberlin College.

 

By the way, if deciding what sex you are is the biggest problem you have in life, please consider yourself fortunate.