-By Warner Todd Huston
Apparently the Boston Herald has taken up the PC line if its story on cross-dressing prisoner Robert “Michelle” Kosilek from August 12 is any indication because the Herald decided to call Kosilek “she” throughout the article.
Robert Kosilek is in prison for the 1990 murder of his wife and has been living “as a woman” in the male correctional facility since 1993. Kosilek has not undergone a sex change operation but had until recently been enjoying the benefit of state paid electrolysis in order to eliminate unwanted hair so that his appearance as a woman could be enhanced.
The current controversy over Kosilek’s claims to being a woman trapped in a man’s body is over the recently halted payments by the state for the electrolysis and Kosilek’s lawsuit demanding that the state pay for a sex change surgery.
But in a bow to PCism, Herald writer Laurel J. Sweet calls Kosilek “she” throughout her piece. Sweet used the feminine pronoun to describe Kosilek no less than four times in the short piece.
- Kosilek, 60, who has been living as a woman in state prison since 1993, cut a hair-raising figure as she strode into Wolf’s courtroom…
- … crimped brown hair flowing down her back and gobs of rouge accentuating her cheekbones.
- She is serving life at MCI-Norfolk for the 1990 strangulation of 36-year-old Cheryl Kosilek in Mansfield.
One can argue whether a person that has undergone a sex change truly becomes the desired gender or not, but clearly Robert Kosilek has not undergone the surgery so “she” he isn’t. Yet the Herald calls this convicted killer a “she” anyway.
It is obvious that the Herald was more interested in doling out a sop to PCism than in reporting the truth.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as NewsBusters.org, RightWingNews.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
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