She then felt my inner thighs and my vagina area, touching both of my labia.
Our Little Chatterboxes: TSA – Sexual Assault
That comes from an account of a woman who was subjected to the TSA’s new policy on airport screenings.
And to think I was planning to blog today about how lobbyists for the airport security industry are predominantly behind the push for full-body scanners. These are the devices that, if you decide you don’t want strangers seeing through your clothes, are replaced with a full-body search, like the above quoted woman was subjected to. Ironically, the airport she was at doesn’t have the full body scanners, nor was she given any other option but to be felt up by a TSA operative.
I shouldn’t say she was “felt up”. There’s a disgusting idea among humans that any physical contact short of violence is pleasurable and no big deal.
The woman quoted above says she was sexually assaulted because she wasn’t informed her private bits were about to be touched. This suggests that if the TSA operative had just said “I’m going to touch your vajayjay” everything would be cool.
This is kind of a fucked up attitude.
Being touched IN ANY WAY should be 100% VOLUNTARY.
There is NO EXCUSE FOR THIS.
Is rape not a big deal if the rapist lets you know he’s going to do it first?
“OK, now I’m going to force my penis into you, OK?”
That makes it FINE, doesn’t it?
How about this: “If you want to leave, you’re going to have to let me sexually assault you. If you stay, I won’t sexually assault you.”
Ah, that’s even better, right?
This is disgusting and I’m sick of living in a country who will put up with this shit. We are living in a police state. It may be a mild one, but we are still all assumed to be criminals before our innocence can be proven to corporations and government.
Whether it’s showing our receipt at the Best Buy on the way out to prove we’re not shoplifters, or getting fingered at the airport to prove we’re not planning on blowing up a plane—the old, forgotten principle of everyone being “innocent until proven guilty” is long dead.
Read the rest of the woman’s account and for God’s sake, speak out on this. Get a blog, Tweet about it, post it on Facebook. Just do something. We have to speak out against all forms of sexual assault, even the ones sanctioned by our governments.
