Originally Posted by sobetraveler
My wife is taking several trips next month, we'll see what she experiences, that may change my mind, but I'm more inclined to let them pat me down and then file a complaint afterwards... I'm not afraid of psychological scarring...
I don't think filing a complaint is going to help. Remember that the TSA supports their own SOP. As far as they are concerned they can touch you anywhere they want. They are "anything for security" people. Quite a few would support cavity searches.
Instead, check your local laws, call over an LEO, and file a complaint with them for the genital touching if such actions are against the law in your state. If we could get one lucky conviction over that then this nonsense will be all over regardless of what politicians think about it. It would be an endrun around the political or judicial process.
Originally Posted by sobetraveler
Employees do all kinds of bad or demeaning things to keep their jobs, and I hope they file sexual harrassment suits against TSA for being forced to do this, but in the meantime, I can understand why they don't want to be fired...
I don't really think they are being forced to do it. I think a lot of them could get away with doing non-genital, less invasive patdowns without actually getting fired. If you had a job that required you to touch people's genitals in public would you be afraid of being fired? I think TSOs should be the subject of one of the
dirty jobs episodes on the Discovery Channel.