Originally Posted by BearX220
If you have an SSSS experience that is clearly more about the screener's sexual pleasure/power fantasies than your traveling security, though, your view might change. I was never anti-security until I was flying somewhere with a woman colleague a few months after 9/11 and I sailed through the checkpoint while she was, for lack of a better term, felt up at some length in full view of everyone. She's smooth and pretty, I'm lumpy and hairy, and she got the hands down her shirt.
This happens to enough women that it's scandalous, and the bad TSA apples are counting on you to just bite your lip and run for your flight. "Getting a bad attitude" is just what's needed.
Thank you very much for that story, BearX220. I have been reporting my experiences similar to the one you recounted above on this board and hearing a lot of unsupportive "it must be your fault" or "why do you have such a bad attitude?" in response. Thank you for making the point that I'm not the only woman victimized at the airport. Just last week a male screener tried to conduct a wand search on me, while there were women on duty. He proceeded to wand one or two attractive teenage girls after I refused his unwelcome come-on!
Women should never be put in the position of being vulnerable to these TSA bad apples in the first place. I'm old enough to fend for myself, but these girls, who looked to be about sixteen, were not streetwise enough to fight back against this manipulation. Touching passengers should be absolutely forbidden. This would not compromise security at all, because huge gaping security holes elsewhere will be the first to be breached. All this attention to women's breasts is plainly prurient.