Cross-dresser doused with gasoline (?)

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5 Jul 2006

"Cross-dresser doused with gasoline" is a headline in today's IndyStar. That's the kind of headline that makes my heart stop. Fortunately, it didn't have a tragic outcome. And the story itself seemed to have little to do with the person in question being a cross-dresser, so I wonder why it made a headline, other than the sensationalism of the idea of a person wearing the clothing of a different sex than their own.

I wonder if we'll look back at news items like this with incredulousness 100 years from now -- they way do today when reading news items from the recent past, regarding black people and women, that contained casually racist and sexist statements.

Posted on Wednesday, July 5, 2006 at 10:51 AM | 0 TrackBacks

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