Re: [News] Japan's New Export

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Fish Eye no Miko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>  > Japanese manga cover an amazing range.  There are manga
>> > for all age levels and interests.  The Japanese manga world
>> > is actually highly structured with clearly defined markets that
>> > range from love-starved women to sex-starved perverts.
>> So if you're a woman and "needing it", you're love-starved.
>> If you're male and in the same boat, you're sex-starved... and a pervert.
>Where does it say the perverts are male?  How do you know the writer's not
>referring to perverts of both genders?

Because it is being contrasted with "love-starved women".  Although the
comparison does not literally say that only male perverts are being referred
to, sentence structure can imply something beyond the literal words.
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