Originally Posted by bethster

While your attempts at poetic flattery are not lost on me, you are missing the point.

I should not be deprived of ANYTHING because I am a law-abiding, tax-paying, voting, hardworking AMERICAN CITIZEN.

Not a terrorist.

Not a criminal.

Just a plain old ordinary American citizen who wants to get to Point A to Point B in relative safety and something remotely passing as comfort.

And while doing so, I want to drink from my OWN bottle of water.

And while doing so, I want to be able to carry on the little things that make me me (remember, an American citizen, and not a terrorist): cologne, mouthwash, a pill box for my prescriptions, a bottle of nail polish.

And while doing so, I want to be free of the racist hysteria that so many of my fellow Americans seem only too quick to affect, causing planes to be delayed or diverted because someone had a twitch.

Being naturally beautiful or not has nothing to do with it. Having the freedom to do as I please as a law-abiding American citizen is. Whether or not Revlon is my best friend or not is not the issue. Being forced to comply with absolutely ridiculous restrictions that punish me for a crime that I did not commit nor would ever commit is. Your personal opinion as to a woman's physical attractiveness does not matter. What does matter is that I believe the TSA and the airlines are putting me, as a woman, at a disadvantage in my business by treating me with the suspicion you would afford to a common criminal (although not John Karr, apparently). A business that, I might add, I have worked my manicured fingers to the bone to keep afloat and make profitable.

Sorry...your argument doesn't "fly" with me.