Male.
I once found myself in the bowels of an airport (bagagge handlers area) completely by mistake. I understand it’s still perfectly possible to follow that particular route in that particular airport, going from the street to the bagagge handling area without passing any security checkpoints, needing a key, needing to key in some code… nothing.
If it was on the Internet, it must be true.
Then perhaps you shouldn’t go around telling us women not to wear underwire bras, not having experienced needing one yourself.
Gah, missed the edit time window!
Seriously, I’m not being nasty-it’s just that basically, some of us need to use underwire. I’ve only worn older bras without around the house-they don’t provide the proper support.
As a large chested woman I can honestly say I must have an underwire bra to have any level of comfort. If someone wants to take my underwire bra from me, especially in a situation like flying on an airplane where comfort is of utmost importance, they will have to tackle me and remove it from me by force. I have worn non-underwire bras before and they do nothing to support the ladies at all. I don’t even really understand their purpose.
You do have to submit to a background check to be a baggage handler. Hell, you’ve got to submit to a background check to work in the unsecured parts of airports.
I’m not telling you what to wear or not wear.
I’m saying that after several years of a publicly posted policy it seems silly to me to raise a stink about it, now, as if it were some secret policy.
I’m also saying that if that amount of metal is supposed to be investigated by the TSA I can draw two conclusions: The TSA’s ability to reliably detect the amount of metal they claim should be causing a false alarm is sub-par. Which underscores that the so-called additional security added by the TSA’s expanded searches is entirely cosmetic, and simply costs money and time, without actually providing a commensurate improvement in security.