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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
I would imagine the newspaper reporters only asked men for their reaction to the law, or at least lumped them into a section of male reaction.
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My problem with this sentence:
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Some men claim that the reforms will place an impossible burden on them to show that the woman agreed to sex if she had had a few drinks beforehand.
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...is that it should have been written like this:
Some claim that the reforms will place an impossible burden
on men to show that the woman agreed to sex if she had had a few drinks beforehand.
Otherwise it implies that men, exclusively, object to this law - which is inaccurate and inflamatory.
I don't think a professional journalist could be this naive about semantics. If they are, it's just incompetence.
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@Aliantha: Sorry, if I hijacked your thread. These were a couple of current news items I thought were worthy of discussion.