Not exactly a crash blossom, but...

[Laurence Horn]

...a good old fashioned ambiguous headline.  In the hard copy version
of an op-ed entitled "Gay? Whatever, Dude" by Charles Blow in today's
Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/opinion/05blow.html, the
subhead reads

    Poll: men more
  accepting of gays
     than women.

which I, of course, read as claiming that men's attitudes toward gays
(in the military, maybe?) were more favorable than their attitudes
toward women.  Not what was intended, as the piece makes clear.

LH

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