It drives me through the roof to hear about our parents or grandparents or anyone their age having to undergo this. I almost cried when I was in SLC and saw a couple in their 90s being forced to take their shoes off.
It's so reactive too - I mean, just 'cuz some loser hid a bomb in his shoes, or those nutjobs in their underwear, now all law-abiding citizens must be subjected? What is next????
The TSA claims it has only received 245 complaints (out of millions of women "groped"/patted/whatever) in the last several months. They say that is a drop in the bucket. To me, that is a serious number - and that is only the ones coming forward.
Something is wrong with MC. It looks like he has had the time to put down every poster. Ooops - and there are others - like "Capt. Justice" posted to himself about me: If you think being searched at an airport after 9/11 is humiliating, you are emotionally unstable. It's part of life.
I got selected for "special attention" at the gate a couple of years ago - I was flying one-way because I was driving back with my mom in a rental truck with a load of furniture and dishes was giving me. So, I got taken aside, and patted down. It was not an intrusive pat down, though, and I didn't have to peel back my waistband or anything like that. I had to take off my shoes. It was absurd - the screen didn't really look at them, just lifted them up and set them down. Then my carry-on bag - she just unzipped, and riffled the stuff on top, and closed it. Then my purse - she didn't look through it, either. Unzipped the main compartment, lifted out my wallet, just looked at it, put it back in my purse and zipped it up. Now, my purse had a whole lot of other zipped up compartments that she never looked at. It really was ridiculous, and I was highly annoyed by it. It was Southwest Airlines, I was in group A, and by the time she was through, everyone else was on the plane.
Same thing happened to my mom on her way home. Now, being elderly, she should have been able to preboard. Like me, she had a group A boarding pass, but she was selected for extra screening at the gate. By the time they were through with her, everyone else had boarded, and she got the last seat on the plane. It really stinks. But apparently, this kind of treatment makes a lot of people "feeeeeellll" safer.
My guess is that we don't really want to know....or to fly, for that matter.