Eli5 How does passive/active voice work???
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In addition to all the other information already posted, passive voice places the perpetrator at one remove from the victim, as it were, which can signal a piece of unconscious bias. Not just ‘mistakes were made’ but, as has been pointed out for sex assault, ‘the woman was raped,’ puts the onus on the woman. you wonder what she was doing that she ‘was raped.’ with active voice, ‘xxx raped the woman’ (a man, her spouse, etc) there’s no ambivalence about the victim’s part in the event.
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