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Menstruating Woman Subject to TSA Grope....
« on: November 26, 2010, 12:52:19 PM »
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Menstruating woman subjected to TSA grope because panty-liner obscured her vulva on pornoscanner   Updated at 12:39 PM
   
Edited on Fri Nov-26-10 10:36 AM by kpete
TSA Groin Searches Menstruating Woman

Yesterday we received a letter from a customer who wore her GladRags Pantyliner through a security scanner and was so traumatized by her resulting TSA genital search that she wanted to warn other women. (Read her letter below). Her past history of sexual assault made this experience a nightmare for her. At first we thought yes, we will warn people not to put themselves through this risk.

But on second thought, we want to ask every willing woman, menstruating or not, to put a GladRags in her pants and go through the scanner. Let the TSA learn to recognize that a menstruating woman is probably not a terrorist! (And, yes, we know myriad jokes can be made be about that statement).

The fact of the matter is, everyone is subject to an invasive search. For some women and men it causes great stress and perceived violation. If you can handle the experience fairly stress free, help clear the way for our menstruating sisters for whom a genital search by a group of strangers is a truly traumatizing experience.

So get your GladRags on and get to grandma's house! Over the river and thru the scannners!

"This email isn't going to be as polished as I would normally send, but I'm upset and I don't want what happened to me to happen to anyone else (if I can stop it). I recently traveled via air, and was subjected to that new scanning device. "No problem," I thought. I was wearing jeans and a linen tanktop, bra, panties, and one camoflauge pantyliner. I'm a rule follower, so I never have any problems at the airport. Not this time. I was stopped, and then held for 15 mintues while they tried to find a female supervisor. I couldn't get to my bag, my shawl or my shoes; just standing there while the TSA agents kept me in one place. Now, I don't want this to be about bad TSA agents; they were doing their job, they were as delicate as they could be, etc., etc. But what ultimately happened is that I was subjected to search so invasive that I was left crying and dealing with memories that I thought had been dealt with years ago of prior sexual assualts. Why? Because of my flannel panty-liner. These new scans are so horrible that if you are wearing something unusual (like a piece of cloth on your panties) then you will be subjected to a search where a woman repeatedly has to check your "groin" while another woman watches on (two in my case - they were training in a new girl - awesome). So please, please, tell the ladies not to wear their liners at the airport (I didn't even have an insert in). I'm a strong, confident woman; I'm an Army vet (which is why those camo liners crack me up), I work full-time and go to graduate school full-time, I have a wonderful husband, and I don't take any nonsense from anyone. I don't dramatize, and I don't exaggerate. I'm trying to give you a sense of who I am so you won't think that this is a plea for attention, or a jumping on the bandwagon about the recent TSA proposed boycott. I just don't want another woman to have to go through the "patting down" because she didn't know that her glad-rag would be a matter of national security."


more:
http://blog.gladrags.com/2010/11/24/tsa-groin-searches-... /
http://boingboing.net/2010/11/24/menstruating-woman-s.h...
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/11/26/923373/-Ha...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9633328

Oh my lord in heaven....ew. Why would this guy even share something like this? I mean, from the way it looks to me, he might be a bit offended, but it looks to me that pete was so infatuated with this case, and wanted so much attention, he couldn't help but post it.

This is almost enough for me to consider him a drek primitive.

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Re: Menstruating Woman Subject to TSA Grope....
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2010, 01:00:54 PM »
I have no idea what 'glad rags' are, but the term 'flannel panty liner' is not something you see every day.

I heard tampons show up on the body scanners too and some people are complaining they may be mistaken for bombs.
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Re: Menstruating Woman Subject to TSA Grope....
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2010, 01:05:12 PM »
*sigh* I'm aware of this problem. Seen things on it before vaguely. However, I didn't feel the need to make a long drawn out stink about it until I saw this. I knew if anyone was going to bring it up, and elaborate, it would be a DUmor.

After all, that is the kind of foul, loathsome creatures they are.

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Re: Menstruating Woman Subject to TSA Grope....
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2010, 01:28:53 PM »
Oh, it's a moonbat maxipad....kinder to Mother Earth because they're recyclable.  Yech. 

You won't catch us talking about such things in the Spa.  Creepy that Pete does so in the DUmp. 

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Re: Menstruating Woman Subject to TSA Grope....
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2010, 01:53:21 PM »
That's no tampon....that's a fuss to a bomb.... :censored:
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Re: Menstruating Woman Subject to TSA Grope....
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2010, 02:09:19 PM »
Oh, it's a moonbat maxipad....kinder to Mother Earth because they're recyclable.  Yech. 

You won't catch us talking about such things in the Spa.  Creepy that Pete does so in the DUmp. 

Exactly my sentiments about a creepy guy bringing this stuff up. Hi-Five.

Conservative women have class. NOBODY at the DUmp does.

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Re: Menstruating Woman Subject to TSA Grope....
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2010, 02:18:12 PM »
Oh, it's a moonbat maxipad....kinder to Mother Earth because they're recyclable.  Yech. 

You won't catch us talking about such things in the Spa.  Creepy that Pete does so in the DUmp. 

Yeah well Karin I have news for you this is nothing new.

As an old lady I never thought I would talk about this but here goes----Duck and cover.

19 years old I applied for a job in the mid 1960's and was sent for a physical before being hired.------Note that MEN were exempt from this part of the hiring process.

The company I applied to did a good amount of government work, but that has I hope nothing to do with all this.

Turns out the physical was to determine if I was Pregnant at the time.   I was sent to a female Doctor---rare in that day, and as I was at the time "on the rag" and wearing a tampon this doctor actually pulled it out to examine.

Thank heavens I have  a dark sense of humer I laughed all the way home.     Until I realised that I as a woman could not work more then 40 hours a week.----Men doing the same job were paid more then me and allowed to work as many hours as they wished.   But that is another topic.

Want to hear about what Military Dependants may face in Military Hospitals that are also ---Teaching Hospitals--

The point of this is that one never knows what they may have to do to get a job, get medical treatment or fly on a plane that they have paid for a seat on.

Three words cower us----Its the LAW, or, Its company policy, It's hospital policy, It's school policy, It's town policy, or told if one does not agree to any policy to,    Just go away----Your choice.

How far can policy go when people take advantage of it and treat the person as a nonhuman???

Done in the past, it was at one time a government policy was  to refuse to admit people to work camps until they took a communal shower.