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rmNow, do I wear my dress and show off the tattoo or do I do my awesome expensive jeans, custom dress shirt, waistcoat, suit jacket look? The problem is that every choice is a story.
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bodlon has written about the latest in security theater from the TSA. I want to take a moment to state that I am not particularly prudish, am not particularly religious, am not at all shy about my body, and have never experienced sexual assault, and yet the current choice between excessive touch and exposing imagining upsets me in a completely visceral, horrifying, uncomfortable way. My body, aside from just being mine, is also my tool, my instrument, and my product. The idea that I should be all right with this manner of its treatment is entirely beyond me, and I'm lucky in the number of complicating factors these experiences don't bring to the table for me. This shit is not okay.
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Date: 2010-11-09 06:30 pm (UTC)P
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Date: 2010-11-09 06:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 06:33 pm (UTC)Also, it seems like a government-sanctioned grope-for-all and...no. Just...no.
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Date: 2010-11-09 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 06:35 pm (UTC)And no idea. I won't deal with it until I get back to the states, which isn't until the end of the month. But when I do, I'll let you know.
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Date: 2010-11-09 06:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 06:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 07:01 pm (UTC)For me, for some time now, going through airport security has felt like a punishment narrative. And I find that highly fucking traumatizing. And there's no reason for me to feel that way other than what is happening in security. That's a problem.
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Date: 2010-11-09 07:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 07:07 pm (UTC)Oh, man, those articles have some juicy bits that relate much more broadly than the scope of the articles themselves.
"... a nation struggling to accept a new notion: that without help they might not survive, no matter how hard they worked."
“When they talk about protecting kids in schools, they talk about gun shields, cameras, lights, but never about the internal environment. But safe is not about the rules – it’s about how the youngsters feel inside.”
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Date: 2010-11-09 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 07:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 07:30 pm (UTC)This goes so far past "If you didn't have anything to hide, you wouldn't mind."
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Date: 2010-11-09 07:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 07:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 07:40 pm (UTC)And I'd love to know, whenever you get a chance. ^_^
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Date: 2010-11-09 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 07:54 pm (UTC)Which you know. But AAAAAAAAARGH.
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Date: 2010-11-09 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 08:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 08:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 08:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 09:07 pm (UTC)I'm glad to see Shirvell fired, though I worry a little bit about what he's taking from that experience, and what people are going to twist that into.
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Date: 2010-11-09 09:22 pm (UTC)Flying is stressful enough for me; I can get vertigo on take-off and am prone to vague motion sickness through the entire flight. Not enough to barf but enough to feel ill.
I'm also usually worried about getting to the airport in time and keeping track of my family, and worrying about what we'll eat and drink, so that by the time we're at security, I'm often nearly a wreck, some time almost in tears it's all so stressful. Add to that, inconsistent security procedures that don't do a damn thing to make me safer and only stress me out more.
These new procedures which are invasive in multiple ways are making me less likely to fly because, I'm sick of being forced to give up my privacy to suit some suits idea of what makes us safer without any proof of it doing so.
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Date: 2010-11-09 09:29 pm (UTC)*facepalm*
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Date: 2010-11-09 09:50 pm (UTC)I repeat my statement about government-sanctioned grope-for-alls.
*headdesk*
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Date: 2010-11-09 09:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 10:55 pm (UTC)I think that sums it up perfectly. I'm holding onto my theory that Mordred IS Morgana and Arthur's son, who was sent back in time to avoid scandal. Morgana DID say that she felt a strange connection to him in that S1 episode. And yeah, I know it would be difficult for them to get away with Morgana and Arthur actually sleeping together on the show, except that they MIGHT be able to use "but it's part of the mythology!" as a get out of gaol free card.
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Date: 2010-11-10 12:19 am (UTC)This crosses a line for me that I'm not willing to back down over.
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Date: 2010-11-10 01:28 am (UTC)When I went to La Scala - my luggage got lost and I was not going to wear the one pair of linen pants and cotton shirt with sandals I had for the week. So I spent a fun morning in Milan buying a long linen dress, shoes, hose, the works. But Air Italia paid for it, so it wasn't so bad. And I learned (but have now forgotten) how to say "control top" in Italian.
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Date: 2010-11-10 09:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-12 03:10 am (UTC)