Here’s the news story that every editor has been waiting for – underwired bra sets off security alarms at airport!
So now we women all have to make sure that we don’t wear underwired bras when flying, because yes, the detectors may be that sensitive.
I do, however, have a plan. I want you all to spread a rumor that the TSA is full of lust-crazed lesbians desperate for any excuse to feel up the boobs of good Christian women. That should give the Defenders of the Patriarchy something to think about.
You know, the sad thing is my experiences with TSA screeners have been so much better than my experiences with the old Globe Security screeners so many airports used to contract for.
For the most part they’re just grunts trying to do a job. If only their management wasn’t directing them into “security theater” rather than implementing effective methods to secure air traffic and training them in how to do it.
I find it depends a lot on which airport you are flying through. I certainly don’t want to go back to Phoenix any time soon.
This happened to me in Boston a few years back. There is no set standard of sensitivity across Airports.
What I want to know is how I can get my boobs to do something actually terroristic.
Interestingly, I’ve never had that happen in the Phoenix airport, but have had it happen in SFO.
And the women in corsets? *That* should be a riot…
Its called a wand. If the idiots actually cared, the screeners would have them.
Having been frisked in Finland and Germany and never in the US (thus far, crosses fingers) I admit my comparison may seem less germane, but that’s a big part of the problem. If they have to touch you, they’re doing it wrong. Which of course, is the point. Demoralize and control.
In Frankfurt in 2004, everyone had to get screened and they used wands and it was fine. In Helsinki a few weeks ago only I had to get screened because I screwed up the ziploc bag dance, and felt totally violated.
And don’t ask me about the crap my father has to go through for his artificial knee.
*imagines traveling in a corset*
*shudder*
Maybe the real secret of Iron Man‘s box office success is that it offers the fantasy of being free to fly anywhere while wearing a great deal of metal?