Not exactly a crash blossom, but...

[Wilson Gray]

Not what was intended, but, sadly, it could have been.

-Wilson

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> ...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
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>    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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