So do I. You can’t worry about everything. Yet, if I found a note in my hamburger saying, “Bon appetite”, I’d be inclined not to eat it. The hamburger that is, not the note.
And I still travel on planes. But then my toothbrush is in my carry-on along with most of my other personal affects.
Thank you for the heads up, Miller, my apologies.
I get grossed out picturing your keyboard. That poor thing must be positively soaked in drool.
I asked you if you thought she knew her story would go viral, to which you answered yes. Nowhere did you mention hope, or trying to.
Which of course she didn’t anyway, unless you consider that posting a one line story, not cross-posting it anywhere else but on her personnal twitter which has a relatively small following (seriously. 700 is a tiny, tiny niche), and writing nothing inflammatory whatsoever is “trying to get viral”.
In which case you’re probably drowning as I write.
Right. Seriously man, how do you even manage to type ? Don’t you get shocks or cause shorts or something ?
Again, that’s what you said. Whether or not that’s what you meant to say is another matter.
~1000 reads on the most popular post is not “very popular”. And you still answered to me that she knew her story would generate so many hits - in fact you’re still saying it with your shoe-in nonsense. If it was such a sure thing, and she knew such stories would be a sure fame/revenue stream, AND she was the attention whore you try and smear her as, wouldn’t she post such stories all the time ?
Or could it just be that she’s just a fucking blogger to whom something quite out of the ordinary happened, which she would e.g. be inclined to put up on her fucking blog ? You know, the place where people write up (or make up) the notable things happening in their lives ?
Wrote one, dude. Wrote one.
Again with the drool. You said attention whoring, fame and ad revenue were the base motivations behind blogging in general.
I’m sure she does. You still have to demonstrate that’s what she set out to do.
Of course she’s still writing about it, she’s still a fucking blogger isn’t she ? And this concerns her blog, doesn’t it ? Again, have you ever even met one ?! Or are you just this obtuse, wilfully or not ?
The event is even more out of the ordinary and notable now that it has become a News Item. Why would she not comment on that, address her surpising spike of fame ? What would you have her do, tear down her blog, change her name and join a convent ?
There’s not enough :rolleyes: in the world for you. I mean it.
Are you kidding? A match made in heaven!
So, if the news headline had been
“TSA approves of agents leaving notes commenting on the sexual habits of passengers based on their luggage content.”
This would have been OK? I just don’t see how it could have worked out like that. A lot more than 1 person would have lost their job if that had happened.
Only for a few days though.
If you had followed what I had posted before about TSA on the SDMB, it would be clear that my default assumption about TSA employees is that they are idiots, so I wasn’t surprised that a woman at TSA would leave a note like that. I would expect an attorney to file a complaint with the TSA first instead of discussing it on her blog and reserving the publicity option if she got an unsatisfactory response. I’m sure many attorneys have active sex lives, but discussing it publicly doesn’t sound like behavior that would put you on fast track to partner.
You’re not the first person in this thread to refer to the TSA agent as being a woman. None of the news stories I’ve seen indicate that this is the case though, and it appears that the TSA agent’s identity has not been made public. Does someone have a cite indicating that the agent responsible was female?
I’m unfamiliar with Ms. Filipovic’s blogging history, but tumbledown mentioned upthread that Ms. Filipovic has posted about vibrators there before. If that kind of thing is going to endanger her career then the damage had already been done before this incident.
Ah. So in your world, lawyers should be conservative and discrete in all matters.
But…who do you suppose represents the business owners in the state of Alabama who wish to sell marital aids? Defends a woman’s right to purchase the morning after pill and other reproductive rights? Who helped strike the fornication law in Virginia in 2005? Who will defend a Hooter’s waitress in a custody case? How long does this list of hypotheticals have to be in order to convince you that your world is very, very small and your definitions of acceptable behavior need not apply to all.
Snippet of Jill Flipovic’s resume from Huffington Post: “Jill…hopes to eventually pursue a career in international human rights, focusing on women’s issues and access to reproductive health care.” Here is a link to her published works from the Feministe website. Seems to me Jill’s writings are in keeping with her experience, career goals, and personal agenda. Besides… I doubt Jill requires your approval to discuss matters you consider risque.
Speaking of bullet-headed dildos…
Wow, zinger! Nice one Jain. Sale on Vodka this week or did you have anything specific to say about why you disagree? The statement you quoted is about the only uncontentious and obvious point out of the many you could bitch about, if you actually had anything coherent to say.
Maybe you can correct me on American vernacular, but doesn’t the use of the word “girl” in the term, “Get Your Freak On, Girl.” usually designate a female to female type address similar to the phase “You go Girl”.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=you%20go%20girl
It would also be reasonable that people doing the checked baggage inspection will be the most junior and lowest paid, so given the allegations of sexual discrimination at the TSA would have a much higher percentage of female employees doing those jobs.
we need more raging cunts! We need more raging cunts!
It serves the TSA as…les just right.
I don’t about conservative, but Lawyers are supposed to be discrete.
You seem to have some sort of weird idea that lawyers are required to use or approve of their clients products.
In what Universe, does her aspirations prove she is wise or even sane? You hear similar statements at every beauty pageant. We have people not aspiring, but actually running for President of the United States, that appear to be idiots.
I didn’t ask for your speculations, I asked for a cite that the agent responsible for the note was a woman. As far as I can tell no identifying information about the agent has been released.
FWIW, the use of “girl” in this sense is stereotypically associated with both gay men and African-American women, but it’s so hackneyed that I wouldn’t take it as evidence of anything about the note-writer’s sex, sexual orientation, or race. While I suppose it’s within the realm of possibility that there’s some Sassy Gay Guy or Sassy Black Gal working for TSA who sincerely wanted to encourage Ms. Flipovic to have fun, I think it’s far more likely that the agent responsible for the note was just being snide.
Am I the only one who read the thread title and immediately thought of a female officer with a yeast infection, opportunistically “borrowing” a conveniently-shaped hairbrush from someone’s bag?
Yeah, probably, I guess.
I think the cunt was in the right to complain.
It’s like the difference between a doctor who sees you naked and a doctor who watches you undress. We accept the first because it is necessary, but the second is completely unprofessional. From a logical perspective, there should not be a difference, but emotionally it makes a big difference.
So too with commenting on the contents of a person’s travel bags. The TSA should ignore legal but embarrassing items just like a well trained butler. It’s important to peoples’ dignity to be able to pretend to themselves that they have some privacy.
Umm… I don’t know, perhaps Jill’s apparent success and popularity? The list of achievements on her resume is certainly impressive. And now she has an extra dose of notoriety to pad her stats. I would label her disclosure rather prudent, considering her area of expertise and likely client base.
But hey, since you seem so concerned about the naive little ol’ thing, why don’t you post some of your priggish advice on her blog along with the other comments? She might just return the favor and advise you as to where to stash your uptight and outdated opinions.
Well, at least now you know that it will not end well for you if you post a story that attempts to elicit sympathy for people who are, in fact, receiving the richly deserved fruits of their own stupidity. And knowing is half the battle…
I noticed you didn’t see anything wrong when other posters referred to the TSA employee as “he”.
BTW, where are you getting this whole black/gay stuff from? Frankly you sound rather racist and homophobic.
I frankly think we will find out the identity of the TSA employee pretty soon. As near as I can tell, ,there are several hundred TSA employees working at Newark airport, which is too many too keep a secret.