What happened to 'Resistance'?
#1
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Join Date: Jul 2009
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What happened to 'Resistance'?
I managed to get two opt-out patdowns this weekend. During the normal 'Here's what I'm going to do' lecture, both gropers said they would move their hand along my inner leg until it touches "the torso".
Two gropers in two airports... Did a memo banning the term resistance go out? While I think "torso" is a bad euphemism for "crotch/labia/scrotum", I do applaud the rejection of the ridiculous term "resistance".
I was ticked off that one of the gropers felt compelled to question why I opted out, but that's another thread...
Two gropers in two airports... Did a memo banning the term resistance go out? While I think "torso" is a bad euphemism for "crotch/labia/scrotum", I do applaud the rejection of the ridiculous term "resistance".
I was ticked off that one of the gropers felt compelled to question why I opted out, but that's another thread...
#2
Join Date: Feb 2008
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I managed to get two opt-out patdowns this weekend. During the normal 'Here's what I'm going to do' lecture, both gropers said they would move their hand along my inner leg until it touches "the torso".
Two gropers in two airports... Did a memo banning the term resistance go out? While I think "torso" is a bad euphemism for "crotch/labia/scrotum", I do applaud the rejection of the ridiculous term "resistance".
I was ticked off that one of the gropers felt compelled to question why I opted out, but that's another thread...
Two gropers in two airports... Did a memo banning the term resistance go out? While I think "torso" is a bad euphemism for "crotch/labia/scrotum", I do applaud the rejection of the ridiculous term "resistance".
I was ticked off that one of the gropers felt compelled to question why I opted out, but that's another thread...
#7
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I managed to get two opt-out patdowns this weekend. During the normal 'Here's what I'm going to do' lecture, both gropers said they would move their hand along my inner leg until it touches "the torso".
Two gropers in two airports... Did a memo banning the term resistance go out? While I think "torso" is a bad euphemism for "crotch/labia/scrotum", I do applaud the rejection of the ridiculous term "resistance".
I was ticked off that one of the gropers felt compelled to question why I opted out, but that's another thread...
Two gropers in two airports... Did a memo banning the term resistance go out? While I think "torso" is a bad euphemism for "crotch/labia/scrotum", I do applaud the rejection of the ridiculous term "resistance".
I was ticked off that one of the gropers felt compelled to question why I opted out, but that's another thread...
This will be fun if they say resistance or pelvis to me as im gonna embrass the heck out of them and give them a lesson in A&P using the correct terms that the whole terminal will hear.
#9
Join Date: Jul 2011
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Lately, I regularly ask them to scratch my "resistance sack" "while they are there" when they use that term.
For far its been quite effective of keeping them away from it and making them blush or become offended.
For far its been quite effective of keeping them away from it and making them blush or become offended.
#13
Join Date: Apr 2003
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When in their little spiel did they say resistance? Or now torso? In a half-dozen or so opt-outs, I've never heard those words. Do they say it at the beginning before the grope starts, or during the process as they are sliding the hands up the legs repeatedly?
After the initial speech, but pre pat down, I always ask either "are you going to touch my genitals?" or "are you going to touch my testicles?" They have varying degrees of discomfort in their reaction but always answer no, and to date I have never been karate chopped in the resistance, so perhaps my strategy works. But I wonder if it is preventing them from saying "resistance" (or torso) later in the process.
After the initial speech, but pre pat down, I always ask either "are you going to touch my genitals?" or "are you going to touch my testicles?" They have varying degrees of discomfort in their reaction but always answer no, and to date I have never been karate chopped in the resistance, so perhaps my strategy works. But I wonder if it is preventing them from saying "resistance" (or torso) later in the process.
#14
Join Date: Dec 2010
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I managed to get two opt-out patdowns this weekend. During the normal 'Here's what I'm going to do' lecture, both gropers said they would move their hand along my inner leg until it touches "the torso".
Two gropers in two airports... Did a memo banning the term resistance go out? While I think "torso" is a bad euphemism for "crotch/labia/scrotum", I do applaud the rejection of the ridiculous term "resistance".
I was ticked off that one of the gropers felt compelled to question why I opted out, but that's another thread...
Two gropers in two airports... Did a memo banning the term resistance go out? While I think "torso" is a bad euphemism for "crotch/labia/scrotum", I do applaud the rejection of the ridiculous term "resistance".
I was ticked off that one of the gropers felt compelled to question why I opted out, but that's another thread...
"where are you going to touch me"
"up to your torso"
"Which 'part' of the torso?"
"Well...YOU know..."
"No, I don't know, which part?"
"come on, you know".....
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