If one opts put of the full body scan, one is subject to a pat down that is far more rigorous than the one you have described.
I can do pat downs. I am trained in it,and there are various levels, dependng on the persons qualities you are searchng. An inmate of a prison who knows how to secret things about his body is treated much differently than say person who is arrested for DUI. The current pat down is quite rigorous, and the areas behind the scrotum are pressed for hard objects, along with the butt crack being pressed or fingered.
Now this rigorous search can be down quickly and innocuously if done professionally, but it seems the TSA staff are not trained well and they are clumsy.
Also you can imagine whether discretion would be exercised to pat down a woman in a burqua with her husband present? That violates every tenet of an orthodox Muslim faith and its culture. It is unlikely given the discretionary nature of such TSA classifications, and this needs clarification.
I have no objection to a rigorous pat down, but I do have a problem with it if it is not applied across the board to all racial and ethnic groups.If there is a functional exemption for Muslims, then I protest vigorously.It would fly in the face of the defined “security concerns” of Homeland Security and the TSA.
Innocuously? Are you serious? Stroking my sac and fingering my behind are not in any way innocuous. You and your ilk deserve the police state you’ll get with that attitude. This is America - learn the rules.
Of course the personnel at the location are going to use their discretion as to who gets patted down or not, how else would it be done?. Time constraints will not allow for every person to be individually searched. That’s the reason for the scanner, isn’t it? To check more people in less time.