Fri Mar 31, 2017, 01:27 PM

Oddly worded NY Post article designed to malign LGBT teen girls...

... ends up making the reporter look silly instead.

Check out this odd sentence in the below NY Post article designed to portray lesbian/bi teenage girls as promiscuous but ends up comically the worst written sentence I have seen in a major print newspaper in a long time:

This “vulnerable population of girls” who engage in same-sex or bisexual activity are twice as likely as heterosexual teens to be sexually active.

http://nypost.com/2017/03/19/nycs-teen-girls-report-more-same-sex-relationships-but-are-being-less-safe/

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Oddly worded NY Post article designed to malign LGBT teen girls... (Original post)	stevenleser	Mar 2017	OP
rofl!!! so, let's see:	unblock	Mar 2017	#1
Exactly. I had to reread it a few times to make sure I was seeing what i thought I was seeing	stevenleser	Mar 2017	#2

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Fri Mar 31, 2017, 01:38 PM

unblock (51,291 posts)

1. rofl!!! so, let's see:

100% of a sexually active subset of people is sexually active.

that group of 100% sexually active people is twice as likely to be sexually active than heterosexual teens.

therefore, heterosexual teens are 50% likely to be sexually active.

oh, and, at least one same-sex or bisexual person is sexually active (needed to ensure that there exists a non-trivial subset of people who engage in same-sex or bisexual activity).

i think that covers it.

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Fri Mar 31, 2017, 01:46 PM

stevenleser (32,886 posts)

2. Exactly. I had to reread it a few times to make sure I was seeing what i thought I was seeing

I guess they don't have any top editing going on over at the Post?

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