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

[stevenleser]

... 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/

[unblock]

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.

[stevenleser]

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?