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A Woman's Worth

It's All in the Punctuation

Upon arriving in an empty lecture hall, an English class saw the following sentence written on the whiteboard:

"Woman without her man is nothing."

Below, instructions were given to divide into gender-based teams and correct the sentence's punctuation.

The men's answer: "Woman, without her man, is nothing."

The women's response: "Woman: Without her, man is nothing."