I don’t think that any of us feel that the flyer was scared or even made fearful by her experience. She expressed annoyance; she didn’t cry rape. The highly trained TSA employee has been given the power to invade our privacy to the nth degree, and is rightfully held to higher standards than a grocery store cashier. It was a jerk move and not an assault, but a zero tolerance policy is what it is. Agent was way out of line, and once the dick move was made public, supervisor had no choice but to let the agent go. TSA really can’t afford more PR problems.
“Of course it’s TSA policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo… always use the indefinite article a dildo, never your dildo.”
You know who else thinks that way? Yep, the woman the OP’s railing about is who:
First off, she’s not a cunt. She’s a woman. The TSA agent acted in a totally disrespectful manner to her, but I guess that doesn’t matter to you, because after all, she’s just a cunt.
And rightfully so.
Stop right there. The TSA agent performed an illegal search of her luggage. I realize that it’s all PC and everything to allow stuff like that to happen, but the cold, hard reality was that there was no probable cause for the search and under the 4th Amendment, it was illegal. Of course, the 4th Amendment gets gang-raped thousands of times a day at every airport in the country, but hey, who cares? It’s just the Constitution, after all.
If that’s the way you think human beings should act, no wonder our society is as fucked up as it is.
Your pitting echoes Massive Fail to the far mountaintops.
Uh, why would I want to do that?
So we can point and laugh.
I think a more appropriate analogy would be if the note said “Play on, playa!”
Perhaps people are reading the “freak” part of the note as an insult. I didn’t read it that way. I read it as saying, basically, “You go girl!”
If the note had, in fact, said “You go girl!”, would all of you still think that it was a wildly innappropriate violation of privacy?
Yes. Without question.
So, back to the real question in this pitting: what is the root cause of your misogyny?
I had been drinking when I wrote this. In hindsight, only 1 or 2 uses of the word would have sufficed.
WAG: hot blogger prefers a vibe over some Rucksinator.
But what does that have to do with the OP?
Empathy describes the ability to identify with another person’s feelings and experience. We would like the opportunity to comment on your personal, private possessions in order to test your tolerance for invasions of privacy. Put yourself in her place, would you?
Perhaps you didn’t read the story.
The TSA agent did not take a picture of the vibrator and post it on the internet. The TSA agent wrote a personal note.
The blogger posted the note and the fact that she was travelling with a vibrator on the internet. Every revelation of this blogger’s luggage contents came from her herself.
The only invasion of privacy came while the TSA agent was doing her job. Now, some people feel that TSA agents’ jobs are violations of the 4th amendment. That may be, but that’s another debate. Many here seem to really hate the TSA and enjoy a story about one of theirs losing their job.
I don’t believe that I have actually flown since 9-11, so I haven’t had any negative experiences with the TSA. Perhaps if I had I would be with everybody else going “fuck the TSA, and fuck TSA agents!” (I would hope not.)
I would. Personal commentary on someone’s sexual equipment/activities while you are working in a professional role is inappropriate, period. Even if nobody else has to see it.
I guess I’m officially too frigging old. My brain kind of froze with the idea that a woman wouldn’t have a problem with letting her friends, family and coworkers know that she travels with a vibrator. I’m sure a lot of women do that, but I would think few women would want to share that information on their blog.
BTW, I think the TSA agent should have been fired.
Perhaps you are incapable of getting the point. Consider the incredible responsibility of respecting the privacy of travelers while insuring our safety. Read the **zero tolerance policy **I linked to. Look up the definition of “professionalism” and “discretion”.
The agent was incredibly indiscrete, unprofessional, and in obvious violation of the rules of his/her job.
I don’t expect my doctor to remind me he’s had his camera up my ass, even though it happened and I was well aware of it when it happened.
I don’t expect the TSA agents to remind me they’ve seen my private possessions, even though I know they may have. My collection of nude Ernest Borgnine pictures is private; I surrender that privacy when I pack them for flight, but not for little notes thereafter, regardless of whether the notes show approbation, indifference, or dismay.
That’s the problem. The TSA agent has no business writing personal notes. The job is pretty simple…check luggage for prohibited items. If found, sound the alarm. Otherwise, close luggage and move on to the next one.
Well, this isn’t the issue at all, but thanks for sharing your prudishness. Sex is a natural, biological inclination and many, many people have few if any hang-ups about enjoying it. If it comforts you, please continue to assume that women have zero interest in sex outside of procreation and the vibrator in question was for her achy back. Feel better?
The agent’s opinion of the blogger’s extracurricular activities was about as welcome and relevant as yours. Policy was violated; job terminated. End of story.
That reminds me of the time they were x-raying my brother’s bags in Heathrow. His bag went through the scanner and the line stopped, the inspector opened up his bag, and rifled through it and found this toy Godzilla he’d bought in London. The inspector held it up to her colleagues and said “Does this remind you of anyone?” and they all started laughing. She held him up so she could get a cheap laugh. He just thought it was hilarious and went on his merry way.