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Certainly, the English is not bad - but there's nothing in that assignment text that should offend anyone. Except, of course, "political-correctness" and feminist extremists who want to see offensiveness everywhere they look at, so that they can attention-whore around.

And yes, I can't stand this kind of people. Seek for attention where the situation demands it, not just for your own personal gain.

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One in six women in the US have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime (src: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/172837.pdf ). Is it worth potentially inducing PTSD symptoms to use that subject matter in this question? I'd say no.

It's not just PTSD, but trivializing the act in a word problem. I'm not sure the teacher meant it in a trivial way though. It could have been an awareness campaign gone wrong.

So it's 1 in 6 now? When I was in college the claim was 1 in 4. So I guess there's a silver lining there. Although some research asserts the ratio may be even smaller:

http://www.leaderu.com/real/ri9502/sommers.html

> Certainly, the English is not bad

Is that a typo? Because the English is bad. I suspect there are some people on HN capable of answering the questions on the paper without giving the results expected by the quiz setter.

> but there's nothing in that assignment text that should offend anyone. Except, of course, "political-correctness" and feminist extremists who want to see offensiveness everywhere they look at, so that they can attention-whore around.

Do you understand why it is important not to dump references to rape and suicide into an unrelated [quiz]assignment without warning?

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