also, if the money athletes got every year went to the government, after a few years, we could change the world by finding a cure for cancer, ending global warming, or even stopping world hunger.

I have been bullied in university, by professors, and also in a small class in university for the entire year. They tormented me, sexually harrased me and humiliated me in front of the whole class, because of my shyness and because I don’t have any friends. The class and teacher did not do anything to stop it, because they were both very nice to them, but to me they were terrible.
By not taking a stand against these bullies, the by-standers are bullies themselves, because they can only be on their side, or the victim’s side.

From the Jones/Blount families, we wish her much success in both her career of choice and the sports she plays. Meagan we love you.

I would love to get in touch with you again. I danced in your class at UT and thouroughly enjoyed it. I am 53 yrs old and still taking jazz dancing and yoga and pilates. Want to go back into the work force either part time or as a volunteer.

Please let me know if I can help the dance department at UT in any way. My resume is published in the website HIREUT.
Love to hear from you…Maria Roberts Engel class of 1991 cell number 813 240 9100.

But this certainly is satire and nothing more. As a writing major I felt it best to expand my horizons and try out new and risky things. I tried and perhaps I failed. But at least I tried. I can’t please everyone, but I certainly don’t enjoy making others upset or hurting others’ feelings. Truly, I’m not cut out for satire as you pointed out. So you may be happy to know my career as a satirist was short lived.

But reading your comment shocked me. Not because of the things you wrote about my writing style or perhaps my unpalatable humor. There’s nothing I can do about that and it doesn’t matter. To actually see someone truly take offense to this means, to me at least, that someone could actually believe someone would propose this sort of action against women and, therefore, they’ve encountered things in their life that would lead them to believe these sorts of things could actually take place. And if that’s the case, I’m truly sorry. It’s a horrible thing, I think, when men or women use gender as an excuse to discriminate or belittle. If there’s anything in my article that was literally true, it’s that I really do think we should be equal. There’s things that can still be done to make women and men more equal and that’s one reason I wrote this article: to draw attention to struggle of equality between men and women. But I never believed for a minute someone could think this was serious. It was just too farfetched in my mind.

This piece was meant to be thought provoking, anger inducing, and a little funny but not meant to be taken literally. I thought I did my best to make it extreme enough to showcase its satirical nature. Perhaps subtly is lost in this digital age. Perhaps I’m a bad writer. If there’s a next time, I’ll make sure to make the content far more extreme to make sure there’s no doubt as to what my message is.

But, Sam, I hope you’ll accept an apology if you were personally offended, and furthermore I hope you’ll use whatever feelings this stirred in you for the betterment of the world around us. And, heck, you kinda did already. You called for action against this type of thinking in your comment. That’s great and good for you. So I guess my article kinda did it’s job since it got you to speak out against a horrible thing. I can live with that.