Letters to the Editor

O'Miller a small-footist

To the Delay:

I was appalled to read the latest installment of Shamus O’Miller’s “O’Miller on Crap” column on March 24th. In it, O’Miller described MSA Grand Poobah Andy Clitouris as a “big-footed doofus” who “should stop sticking his big foot in peoples’ asses.”

This description, even in jest, is highly offensive to Large-Footed Persons (LFPs) on campus. LFPs are continually subjected to oppression and stigmatization from society, enduring taunts like “bigfoot” and “sasquatch.”

We demand an immediate retraction and apology from Mr. O’Miller. This is not the first time the Delay has published material offensive to LFPs, and the LFP community will not sit idle while its culture is repeatedly misrepresented. The Delay must take steps to ensure that it does not contribute again in this way to the furtherance of the racism, classism, sexism, and small-footism of our sick, corrupt society.

I.M.A. Whiner
President Large-Footed Persons Anti-Defamation Society (LFPADS)

This article was published in the 1 April 1999 edition of the Michigan Delay.