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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Even if screeners were in a strong position to push TSA on security policies, making their working conditions miserable isn’t likely to inspire a strong sense of solidarity between Transportation Security Officers and the traveling public. Wearing a kilt and no underwear to a screening isn’t advocacy. It’s sexual harassment. And it’s sexual harassment of a group of employees who have fewer workplace protections than other security workers such as cops. That’s not cute, funny, or effective.
Holiday Harassment - Capital Comment Blog (washingtonian.com)
This might be the biggest load of bullshit that Washingtonian has ever pulled. Really, we’re supposed to feel bad for the people touching our junk? For real?
(via tbridge)
The writer starts from the assumption that the enhanced patdown is itself not ALREADY sexual harrassment. Which it is, particularly since TSA officers (not the policy makers, but the actual front line employees she’s so worried about) have been documented using the threat of the enhanced patdown to intimidate citizens into going through the pornoscanners.
So let’s review- actual TSA officers are using the threat of unwelcome genital contact to intimidate passengers into allowing themselves to be photographed nude. And yet, making it unpleasant for them to follow through on that threat is sexual harrassment?
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