post: link link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238663/Belgian-husband-leaves-wife-19-years-discovering-man-says-knows-good-ironing.html?ito=feeds-newsxml title: DailyMail article on a man marrying a transsexual woman without knowing slug: marrying-transexual-woman date: 2012-11-26
I follow a neat twitter account, @TransMediaWatch, which posts articles from the UK daily about gender news of all sorts, and this came up as a negative counterpoint to a more positively worded article. It’s certainly a very poorly written article. There’s a lot of weird phrasing that’s just sort of, kind of, maybe trying to hide a bias, but not really succeeding, including good examples of using an adjective to objectify, as in “the transsexual hails from…”. It seems that the Telegraph tends to do a better job both of posting relatively okays, and posting corrections when TMW calls them out.
Edit: copied title corrected.