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Related: About this forumFemale passengers say they are targeted:
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/02/03/female-passengers-say-theyre-targeted-by-tsa/DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Women passengers complain that TSA agents are targeting them for extra screening.
The Transportation Security Administration has a policy to randomly select people for extra screening, but some female passengers are complaining. They believe there is nothing random about the way they were picked.
A Dallas woman says TSA agents repeatedly asked her to step back into a body scanning machine at DFW International Airport. I feel like I was totally exposed, said Ellen Terrell, who is a wife and mother. They wanted a nice good look.
When Ellen Terrell and her husband, Charlie, flew out of DFW Airport several months ago, Terrell says she was surprised by a question a female TSA agent asked her. She says to me, Do you play tennis? And I said, Why? She said, You just have such a cute figure.
GRRRR!
ETA: Link
redqueen
(115,164 posts)Just another lovely side effect of the constant reminders that women's bodies are sex objects first and foremost, and that any time women are out in public, their bodies are considered to be on display for public comment (if not worse) at all times.
Oh and all such "compliments" are always welcomed, and any woman who doesn't accept such horrible nonsense is just 'uptight'.
Texasgal
(17,142 posts)why Women in general are pissed off!?
Ummm hello! This kinda crap happens every day!
It's bullshit!
Ms. Toad
(35,384 posts)I got a super-duper special pat down last time I went through.
I've been doing pat downs, rather than the virtual strip search, since I've had too many medical radiological studies the last couple of years - and given the questions about regulation of both CT scans and thee machines - I figure better safe than sorry.
The first full pat down was very respectful - intrusive, but respectful. Full explanation before she touched me, touching only with the back of her hands.
The last one I had very brusque, no explanation, no warning, and hands run, palm toward me, from shoulder to waist straight across my breasts. Ugh.
Don't know I'm getting extra screening, but I did get special, unwanted attention.
i stopped flying. i have family members pissed. but the advantages. my hubby has to take a longer vacation to drive. freedom. see the country. have kids and hubby with me in a car for days adn we have a blast....
so i kinda like that they did this so i can just. say. no.
i feel we should have the right to be.... clothed.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)to be one of the boys. i am more bothered with her, the enabler, then the fuckers, just being fuckers.
copy and paste from reply on thread in GD
BlueIris
(29,135 posts)Many are concerned about prolonged exposure to the body scanners. Having to go through more than once, especially if there is no valid reason, as in, TSA felt like getting a better look at the body of a woman it deemed attractive, is vile.
Dawson Leery
(19,358 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Is probably somewhere in the neighborhood of zero.
Everyone said this would happen because anyone with a grain of sense knew that it would. You aren't going to hear from a single one of the TSA defenders who vociferously denied that this could come to pass when it was first discussed.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Good seeing you.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Didn't know about this forum. Glad to be a part of it
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 16, 2012, 02:42 PM - Edit history (1)
i enjoyed you. you were a treat for me. helped me to look beyond. that is always a thank you.
take care of you
and give that self that needs it so, the hug it deserve.
good seeing you, too
Aerows
(39,961 posts)But hey, a simple hello is fine.
And frankly, yes, I do need a hug sometimes. Sometimes I need to give one, too
Nikia
(11,411 posts)And told her that this was the case, that most of his coworkers did this.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)That everyone back when this was being pushed through clearly articulated that this would happen.
We got shouted down, no matter what forum we were on (at the time I was on HuffPo, but have since completely cut ties with that place), as though we were idiots.
Well, here we have evidence that we aren't idiots, and that our resistance was grounded in reality.
I see no one stepping up to the plate because there is no ground between them and the outfield.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)TSA agents should NEVER comment on a passenger's body. That's just asking for trouble.
According to the updated link, Chuck Schumer has proposed the following in a Senate bill:
-- Require the TSA to establish an Office for Passenger Support
-- Require every airport where TSA operates to have at least one TSA Passenger Advocate on duty at all times
-- Mandate every airport where TSA operates to have clearly visible signage explaining that a TSA passenger advocate can be summoned
-- Establish best practices to resolve frequent public complaints and conduct training of TSA officers to resolve frequently occurring passenger complaints
-- And field advance notification calls from individuals with medical conditions or disabilities to pre-arrange for a screening process at the airport that ensures the safety of the flight without causing undue hardship for the disabled passenger.
That's a start. Once the TSA is forced to advertise that passengers can complain I predict the complaint level will soar.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)No one, least of all women, are surprised by this.
yardwork
(63,810 posts)years ago, before the general roll-out. I was often asked to go into the plexiglass box and "assume the position." I saw the TSA employees grinning behind their little console. It's annoying.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)And this pisses me off. So what if I run. Does that give you an excuse while I'm flying to nowhere to ogle me?
I don't think it does.
Starry Messenger
(32,375 posts)Thank the gods you can get a frozen margarita near the gate. I actually didn't get the body screen, but swabbed, which was nerve-wracking. Mexico City airport has a great way to select for screening. Everyone presses a button as they approach security and if a red light lights up, you get screened. If not, you're cool. It's totally random.