Underwear

I happened to come across a news story from a neighboring city titled "Police: Army deserter — wearing thong — arrested in Boulder".

It's a pretty standard story about some guy who allegedly deserted the Army and the police caught him after receiving a tip. But then there's this:

In a strange twist, he was found wearing a woman’s thong and had three pairs of women’s underpants stuffed in his shirt pocket.

Ok...since when is the underwear someone is wearing newsworthy? Oh, that's right - it was a man wearing women's underwear. So if a woman was arrested and she happened to be wearing men's boxers at the time, we'd be hearing about that in a headline too? And it would also be linked off of The Drudge Report?

Along the same lines, how about this part:

Jail staff found three pairs of panties in Mauger’s shirt pocket and said he was wearing a woman’s thong underneath his boxers. He refused to tell jail staff where the undergarments had come from and why he had them, police said.

Again, why was his underwear (or the extra pairs he had on him at the time of his arrest) an issue that jail staff felt they had to question him about?

I'm not sure what bugs me more with this sort of reporting: the sexist double standard, or the addition of unrelated information like the recent story about the woman who was found guilty of murdering her husband...and also happened to be a transsexual.

Trannyface

A "journalist" from Telemundo decided to do the 21st century version of blackface yesterday at the Super Bowl media day by dressing in a ball gown, a pair of heals, and a wig and acting obnoxious.

I hope I live to see the day when misogynistic bullshit like this is seen in the same light as blackface is today.