Thanks! just this once I am going to blame my internet cutting out while I was editing. Nothing like a panicked call to Comcast during your shift!

Really, it's the depth which the actual text of this proclamation goes into that makes it noteworthy, not the proclamation itself. Proclamations are usually pretty boilerplate and even Rob Ford has made proclamations for Pride even though he typically literally distances himself from such things.

Yes.

He was mad simply because a men's only gym would be seen as discriminatory. Life is so unfair for men!

UGH, why does he even care?! It's not like "women only" gyms are nicer than co-ed ones, for fuck's sake.

I had to take a break to go cry in the office bathroom while writing it, so I feel you, sister.

I am furious right there with you girl. And here is why. I don't want to be afraid of men. I don't want to think that anytime I walk past a man and I am alone I need to be on the defensive. I don't want to cringe when I am out for a jog and a car pulls up on the side of the road to park and all I can think about…

God, I'm so sorry all that happened to you and that you had to go through it alone.

"I'm furious that my parents ingrained in me from a very young age that I should never wear heels because I should always be ready to run at a moment's notice"

I had a similar conversation with my college roommate's boyfriend. He was angry about 'women only' gyms. I couldn't make him understand that for too many reasons to count, lots of women feel vulnerable being in front of men when wearing gym attire.

I'm also angry for the many girls and women for whom the risk isn't out on a late night walk, but right in their very homes. Something about the place that should be the safest actually holding the most danger is just so cruel, and so very damaging.

I wonder why they don't have an adult access only store at this point. It's a huge source of income waiting to happen and I'm sure most adults are tired of being babied out of more risque content they want to enjoy.

Contributing to the problem are dormitories that house both men and women, the lifting of curfews and relaxed attitudes about drinking, say , university officials and women here and elsewhere.

Maybe we ought overhaul our entire classification system? Maybe the number is not the important bit but the specific sexes we are attracted to. Is it better to have a more complicated but also more comprehensive/accurate system?

I cannot believe they were surprised the people were terrified. I think this is exactly what they wanted. Makes them feel powerful.

According to Neill, here is how the UM political science faculty reacted to the emails:

They couldn't even use an actual beer?

Guys.

He made the point politely years ago. And nobody noticed. It made it onto Deadspin and other places not just because it was so damn right but because it was so damn angry and exasperated. Bomani's entire point is that people NEED to be more angry about Sterling's other transgressions. If you take from this piece, "Oh,…