Writer's Block: What's under Snape's cape?

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ETA: See the question that box asks now? That's not what it used to say. The original question asked which Harry Potter character would you submit to a pat down and why if you were TSA for Hogwarts.

What LJ was thinking: two hot topics get exponentially hotter together.

What LJ actually did: trivialized a significant political and individual rights issue in the US and effectively asked people what fictional characters they'd like to sexually assault.

Sexual assualt: not hot or funny.

The erosion of personal freedom and the application of a whole lot of -isms in the name of security theater: also not hot or funny.

*sigh*

Comments

[lyrwen.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I saw that.

Also FWIW, this stupid fucking TSA mess is making me slightly reconsider visiting america next year. I might just have to suck it up about going outside the country for the first time to somewhere I don't speak the language and go to Japan after all -.-

A certain woman who sometimes teases me groped my breasts without permission twice this year, and I found it threw me off kilter for several days, and still slightly throws me off kilter when I'm reminded of it now.

I don't know how a TSA pat down would affect me :/

Given how much it's fucking around people who unlike me don't have the luxury of choosing not to go? Not to mention survivors, trans* people who aren't out, people who would face societal/religious backlash for getting touched that way?

Really, really unthinking and inappropriate of LJ. Glad they changed it, disappointed they didn't also put in an explanation and apologise.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Man, if the fuck-you-very-much-the-TSA keeps me from getting to meet you, I am going to be such a pissy Sor.

I will have to set the world-takeover plans into motion earlier than previously anticipated, I suppose.

~Sor

[lyrwen.livejournal.com]

IKR.

I think it won't stop me. But it has flipped me from "EXCITING ADVENTURES NEXT YEAR" mode into "ACK SO MANY THINGS COULD GO WRONG what if I get lost and they lose my luggage and they detain me for questioning and then later when Im wandering around in america I get kidnapped and robbed and then everyone I go to visit isn't there and I'm like how do I move around in this strange country and then the airport people turn up and are like we think you're a spy also you have socialist ideas and put me in a detainment facility that is not allowed by international law but apparently america doesn't care about this and then I never see my friends and family again?!?!" mode.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Pleeeeease don't let all that keep you from comin' to 'Merca. You're clever and practical and functional, and not the star of a terrible movie.

Also, I at least promise that I will be there when you visit me. Can't swear it for everyone, but yeah.

Alsoalso, if you get put into a detainment facility, I will get a bunch of people together and we will rescue you.

~Sor

[lyrwen.livejournal.com]

Heh. :3 I'm sure it won't. I'll just panic about it till I actually get there, though >_>