# Meg McLain and the TSA **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 14, 2010, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-mclain-and-the-tsa/560608 "2010-11-14T01:11:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-mclain-and-the-tsa/560608/61 "2010-11-18T03:07:57Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Though the names are similar, it’s not [Meghan McCain](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan_McCain), daughter of John McCain, blogger, author, and Republican activist/commentator. It’s [Meg McLain](http://freekeene.com/author/smeg/), blogger. I didn’t click the link and foolishly assumed that the OP made a typo. My mistake. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-mclain-and-the-tsa/560608/62 "2010-11-18T03:34:50Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Some of them aren’t fond of the scans, either - [TSA employee beats coworker after small penis jokes](http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/06/1617423/miami-airport-screener-beats-co.html). He was scanned as part of training and his, er, small package was noted and laughed about after that. > > And hey, it’s totally OK - those images are deleted and won’t ever, say, [be illegally saved](http://gizmodo.com/5690749/these-are-the-first-100-leaked-body-scans). Oops. Maybe not. I really hope the motherfuckers teasing the guy about his dick were all fired. How fucking unprofessional. It’s also indicative of their lack of fitness to monitor joes and janes walking through the scanning device. Yes, I know I’m fat. No, I’d rather not have you assholes jeering at my big ass. Whether I can see/hear it or not. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-mclain-and-the-tsa/560608/63 "2010-11-18T03:52:26Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Yes, I know I’m fat. No, I’d rather not have you assholes jeering at my big ass. Whether I can see/hear it or not. No offense, but I don’t get this: nobody needs some sort of high tech body scanner to see that a fat person is fat. Trust me, I’m just as fat clothed, unclothed, or body scanned. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-mclain-and-the-tsa/560608/64 "2010-11-18T19:29:15Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > No offense, but I don’t get this: nobody needs some sort of high tech body scanner to see that a fat person is fat. Trust me, I’m just as fat clothed, unclothed, or body scanned. Making fun of a naked fat person bothers me more than someone making fun of me with clothes on. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-mclain-and-the-tsa/560608/65 "2010-11-18T20:38:48Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > Their reasoning is that if a bomb went off in an airport, even if hundreds were killed, there’d be at least one survivor, and any survivors would be martyrs/heroes. Whereas if a plane blows up, there are no survivors and no one to tell their story. I think that’s hokum. Having weeping, filthy survivors live on CNN saying “I sent my mom and sister in while I parked the car and I don’t know where they are or if they’re even alive” and the “I saw the guy as he started to scream something in Arabic and I grabbed my son and ran as fast as I could, my husband was in the men’s room and I can’t find him” strikes me as exactly the sort of thing that terrorists want. They want us to see the terror, and real live survivor stories of just how bad it was, and is, and will be are very, very powerful tools of spreading the terror and the dread. Our empathy with the people who nearly died but didn’t, who lost everything, is what ultimately scares us the most and what drives us into making short-sighted decisions (like porn-o-scans) under the motto “this must never happen again.” So no, I don’t buy that rationale against such an attack, not at all. And let’s not forget that attacks on airports go back to the early 70s. There is a history there to be studied with a blueprint to work from. > [@rachelellogram](#): > > Making fun of a naked fat person bothers me more than someone making fun of me with clothes on. Making fun of anyone naked is juvenile and cheap, and especially so when your view of them naked is not consensual. (And let’s not pretend that porn-o-scanners are consensual, they’re consented to under duress.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meg-mclain-and-the-tsa/560608.md?page=3)