Wokeness and The Beaver I’m pretty sure it all started with Theodore Cleaver. Many of you might not be familiar with the name, but at one time he was the cat’s meow. In the early 1960’s Leave It to Beaver was a hit TV show that a lot of America, to their unknown detriment, watched almost religiously. Every week a new episode about a cute little kid named Theodore - his nickname was Beaver - got into trouble and was rescued by his parents, June and Ward Cleaver. Beaver would do really stupid stuff like order an accordion from a magazine ad and try to hide it from his parents when the bill came in the mail or give his alcoholic uncle a bottle of bourbon from his dad’s cabinet without asking his parents or feed a neighbor’s cat and try to hide it in his room. Nothing that really stretched the imagination too much, but usually things that most kids (like me and my brothers) might have thought of but never followed through on because we would be scared to death of our dad’s reaction when he found out. Trust me - whatever we did and however we tried to hide it, he found out, so fear was an effective deterrent at our house. Most of the time, anyway.
Wokeness and The Beaver
Wokeness and The Beaver
Wokeness and The Beaver
Wokeness and The Beaver I’m pretty sure it all started with Theodore Cleaver. Many of you might not be familiar with the name, but at one time he was the cat’s meow. In the early 1960’s Leave It to Beaver was a hit TV show that a lot of America, to their unknown detriment, watched almost religiously. Every week a new episode about a cute little kid named Theodore - his nickname was Beaver - got into trouble and was rescued by his parents, June and Ward Cleaver. Beaver would do really stupid stuff like order an accordion from a magazine ad and try to hide it from his parents when the bill came in the mail or give his alcoholic uncle a bottle of bourbon from his dad’s cabinet without asking his parents or feed a neighbor’s cat and try to hide it in his room. Nothing that really stretched the imagination too much, but usually things that most kids (like me and my brothers) might have thought of but never followed through on because we would be scared to death of our dad’s reaction when he found out. Trust me - whatever we did and however we tried to hide it, he found out, so fear was an effective deterrent at our house. Most of the time, anyway.