every word of this

[rm]

More about the TSA mess: http://elusis.livejournal.com/2141915.html

(suggestion to opt out isn't, as previously discussed, workable for everyone, but the analysis of the problems and the reasons why you should if you can is smart stuff)

Comments

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

Oh, duh - here's the first part:

"As to the patdown, during class my thought was it was very similar to one I got in London-Heathrow in 2007. And I am one of the ones working the body scanners @ Dulles. The images are viewed in a different room, the person seeing the image will never see you IRL, no recording devices are allowed in that room, and frankly, while I can tell if you're a boy or a girl, the images are not sexy by any stretch of the imagination. Heidi Klum and Brad Pitt could be in the machine and I, in that room, would never know. I'm not looking for sexy or body part size, I'm looking for stuff that isn't part of a human body. Oh, and body piercings can be tricky beasts but the only one I still wear doesn't show :)"

[elusis.livejournal.com]

I appreciated the part of her remarks you reproduced in your previous comment, but she lost me here. She's minimizing the possibility of abuses which have already been documented, and the vulnerability of people whose bodies are much farther outside the norm than Heidi Klum and Brad Pitt. Being sexualized is only one of the many concerns about the scans.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

You have an excellent point, and I wonder if she's realized this.