Cross Dresser robs a bank

[Anonymous]

you have to sympathise somewhat … hell, the last laser treatment cost two good arms and a third of a leg. and the price of mac lippy is going through the roof, what with the diving faster than a qantas a330 ozzie dollar.

but seriously, you have to feel for the bank staff. pity the media couldn’t just say that the perpetrator was a “man badly disguised as a woman” rather than a cross dresser. i mean we all know how many flavours there are of cross dressers, trans-x, etc so why use that term at all? perhaps they have some insight into the personality of the robber that is not public info yet …

i think not.

[bee]

Police hunt cross-dressing robber after bank stick-up

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/09/2441734.htm

[Anonymous]

Reading the article, “An unshaven man wearing a dress and a long blonde wig” and this bit, “clad in a black dress and matching stockings”
Sounds like the press might have been having some fun, I mean, ‘Matching stockings’??? And yes, why was the term used at all?
Helen

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pity the media couldn’t just say that the perpetrator was a “man badly disguised as a woman” rather than a cross dresser. i mean we all know how many flavours there are of cross dressers, trans-x, etc so why use that term at all? perhaps they have some insight into the personality of the robber that is not public info yet …
i think not.

[Anonymous]

and i guess with the financial crunch, things in the press world are not going to get any better:

http://business.smh.com.au/business/fairfax-confirms-mccarthy-as-ceo-20081210-6vk9.html?page=2

Quote:

Fairfax Media retrenched 550 staff this year in Australia and New Zealand. Other changes include last week’s departure of Alan Oakley, editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, while Andrew Jaspan was removed as editor of The Age in August.

i suspect that the quality of coverage and political correctness will fall further from their already lowly rungs …