Well, okay, nobody wants to be treated like a criminal. I sure don't. But even though I'm tall, slender, female, and blonde, even though I look like the last person in the world the pro-profiling crowd thinks should be profiled, I think I should be searched as thoroughly as the black-haired, brown-eyed man.
For the sad fact is that women are being used as agents of terrorism in the Middle East--there have been some lovely young women who were apparently happy to blow themselves up for the Islamicist cause. There's no reason to think some of them wouldn't be willing to board an American airliner.
And don't think that because someone is blonde and blue-eyed, he or she couldn't be a Muslim extremist, willing to blow up your plane. There are blonde, blue-eyed Muslims in Bosnia and Serbia, and they hate us just as much as the ones with dark hair do.
It's a dreadful cruelty to humiliate our grandparents with the sort of search people are currently reporting. But remember that terrorists have grandparents and in-laws, and could just as easily slip some sort of device into their luggage. While it's not very likely that a grandmother would deliberately be part of any plot, there's no reason to refrain from going through an old person's carry-on bag. The same principle applies to children. Frightening and humiliating them is barbaric. But the monsters in the Mideast have already demonstrated their willingness to sacrifice their children. If they have any idea that we will let the kids go through security without an inspection, they're going to start using the kids to carry their loads of explosive on board.
This is all moot, anyway. The demons aren't going to try to hijack planes anymore. They're just going to blow them out of the sky with shoulder-mounted surface-to-air missiles.