Hugo Schwyzer believes we can all learn something from Mark Frauenfelder, who stood up for his daughter after being shamed for what she was wearing.
On Sunday morning – Father’s Day — writer Mark Frauenfelder got a text from his daughter. She told him and her mom that while waiting in line at a security checkpoint in LAX, a TSA agent shamed her for what she was wearing. After noting the age on her ID, the male agent looked Frauenfelder’s daughter up and down, and – with a glare – told her “You’re only 15. Cover yourself!” Shaken and furious, she texted the details – and a photo of her outfit – to her father.
As Frauenfelder wrote on Boing-Boing, “it doesn’t matter what she was wearing.” Pushing back against the stereotype of the purity-obsessed father of an adolescent girl, Frauenfelder was concerned not with his daughter’s appearance, but with her emotional well-being and her right to dress as she wants. He and his wife met with TSA officials at LAX, and saw to it that the agency has opened an investigation. His brief account, along with this Yahoo article, have taken his daughter’s story viral.
There’s plenty to be angry about here: the TSA agent’s creepy rudeness as well as the toxic culture that encourages adults to scrutinize and police the outfits and bodies of teenage girls. As activist Maureen Herman, a friend of the Frauenfelders, wrote on Facebook, the command to ‘cover up’ is “the foundation of the oppression of women.” The idea that men are so weak that they can be driven to distraction – or violence – by what a woman wears is at the heart of rape culture. The suggestion to “cover up” implies that those who don’t are at least partly responsible for their own abuse at the hands of naturally predatory men.
Put simply, telling a 15 year-old girl to “cover up” shames her — and sells every boy and man short.
There’s much to love about this story, too. I love that Mark’s daughter felt safe enough to reach out to her parents immediately, knowing both that what had happened to her was wrong and that she’d receive their support. That’s a credit to her — and to Mark and his wife. I love that the Frauenfelders stepped up as advocates for their daughter’s right to move through public space unchallenged and un-humiliated. I love that Mark (with his daughter’s permission) didn’t share the photo of what she was wearing to prove that the TSA agent was mistaken, and that her outfit really was “modest” and she was sufficiently “covered up.” He shared it to remind us that his daughter, like every woman, is a person who deserves respect regardless of what she wears.
A lesser father might have told his daughter she was making a “big deal out of nothing,” or tried to convince her that the TSA agent was really just looking out for her interests. A lesser father might have said, “let this be a lesson to you about how you dress in public.” Instead, a great dad went to bat for his 15 year-old daughter’s dignity. May we draw inspiration from his example.
Photo via Quarterly.co
Hii, I am a 17 year old GIRL, I didn’t read all the comments but why did the west reached this state that if you are attacked/shamed by giving advices, I see women who dresses scantily and I see men’s looks to them, and those women realise it too, but they brush it off saying it is COMPLETELY not there problem. Well, you know both men and women have sexual drives but men are the ones who are turned on visually, so what is so liberating about scantily dresses, we are exposing what turns men on (I don’t mean we… Read more »
This is a highly complex topic and one unable to be reduced down to a father defending his daughter in a blog post. Many components, all truthful, exist within this conversation. Is it fact that women and girls are constantly and unrelentingly held to unreasonable and applied standards that were/are created by male-centric patriarchal mental construct-sets? Of course! Is it also true that the fashion industry ‘applies’ overly sexualized unreasonable inappropriate commercialized norms as ‘ways of being’ to girls and women today? Of course! Thus, could it be true that what the TSA agent saw and experienced and responded to… Read more »
Maybe I’m just an irreverent smartass. I keep thinking that it’s stupid for any airline security agent to complain about not enough clothing on a passenger. Think about it, Mr. TSA agent. The less clothing, the easier it will be to search passengers, and the harder it will be to smuggle prohibited items on board. I figured this was the direction that the TSA was heading anyway, making you take your shoes off, take your jacket off, use scanners that basically show you naked, etc. The less clothing people wear at airports, the safer airports would be!
If you want to make airline flights safer, let passengers and crew carry Tasers. Which is how 9-11
could have been avoided. We don’t need more thugs with badges to make us safe.
Thug passengers with tasers don’t make me feel safe either.
I’d put it this way, and I think we could all agree:
That five seconds telling the girl how to dress could have been better spent on something more directly related to airline security. Time staring at her short shorts could have been better spent looking at other things. Is this really an effective or useful thing to do by an on-duty TSA agent?
Right. What possible harm could be done to an airliner by something that pumps a burst of electricity?
While I completely support the actions of Mr. Frauenfelder, I am hesitant to label any other response as the actions of a “lesser father.” That is far too harsh and is not for me to judge.
The TSA, like 90% of existing Federal Agencies is not listed anywhere in the Enumerated Powers section of the Constitution. It’s very existence violates the Bill Of Rights. The proper response was to tell the agent/officer to STFU.
All one must do is take a glance at some contemporary feminists and how they dress and behave to answer your ? Madonna-a well known feminist Icon- was on an awards show dressed like a callgirl-a look not uncommon for her.In fact,she has famously had sex with married men.These events have BOOSTED her status?!Rihanna just yesterday, was almost naked,not unusual for her,posing for pictures.Heidi Klum yesterday tweeted photograhs of her butt. SEX in America and all the things that go with it,like women dressing seductively, is wide open. So,this sanctimonious nonesense that says women don’t,on their own accord,use their sexuality… Read more »
Racati I would agree with you IF we were living in America circa 1950! IF some girls ARE being told to be sexually circumspect they aren’t listening.
@Raemaster Point taken,however,when it comes to certain cultural realms women most certainly have their cake and eat it too.This realm is one of those. The utter denial by most women on this site of the fact that women misuse their sex and sexuality to titilate,incite and prompt reactions from men AND women is indicative of that fact.Sex and denial from women go together like scales on an alligator.
The TSA Agent had every right to make the comment that he made. The same right that an airline staffer made on the attire of another young woman (in her 20s I believe) about 18 months ago when she was showing too much skin/curves what have you on a flight. Folks, you can’t have it both ways. You can’t get ‘ticked off’ when you ‘complain’ about young men ‘sagging and bagging’ in public (white or black young men) THEN accuse men of being ‘sexual predators’ when they offer an observation of taste. It’s not a means of ‘shaming’ anyone to… Read more »
I still think the TSA thug was out of line. Having said that, some common sense would not hurt. I have the freedom to go to a rap concert in a cowboy hat and Confederate flag shirt, but I know I will probably get my butt kicked if I do. Kids don’t think about how they dress or act. I didn’t at that age.
Fuck the TSA. Nothing but incompetent, uneducated thugs on massive, power trips. Even Mcdonalds wouldn’t hire them.`
This comment makes it past the moderators? You might want to write a piece defending your comment policy.
And Raoul, one of your guys helped get a TSA officer fired the other day. He was one of the first guys hired back in 2002. Nice work.
Are you related to Jules? You seem to have the same connections.
Orchid The closer I get to liberal progressiveness the more I realize that the progressiveness is conditional, very shallow, arrogant and simplistic. In it,women are infantile do-gooder’s and men harbor all of the evil in the world. This is why subjects like this are mired in quicksand. That is why this man receives so little empathy and we are so quick to assign ti him the worst possible reasons for what he did. And please, let us not forget that plenty women lust after and behave inappropriately around young boy’s. I know because I have seen it and experienced it… Read more »
So what’s the problem? Just give them what they want. The less value men (especially young men) place on sex the better they will do for themselves and the better society we will have. It’s a good thing that male pursuit will soon be outlawed. There are more important ways to spend your time. Females should do the pursuing. This would solve an awful lot of sexual harassment situations.
@PursuitAce
Amen brother! What you hint at is a power that men have which they seldom wield to their own advantage, the freedom of choice. If men actually had the foresight and self control to act according to different rules, the field would tilt favorably for both genders. Women would benefit greatly from kno9wing what it is like on the other side of the fence.
TSA agent sees girl dressed in a sexually provocative way and has a normal biological reaction.
TSA agent looks at passport, sees her age and finds out he has joined the most shameful dregs of humanity via. social construct.
TSA agent redirects emotional pain and blame onto the most immediate cause of it.
Media shames TSA agent!
What a dysfunctional cycle.
It seems to be that its women and the men that follow their lead is what got us into the whole sexual shaming mess in the first place. Women creating stigma around men with younger women (and not women with younger men) is probably more rooted in sexual competition than anything else, also the notion that women’s sexuality is pure and more valuable, and men’s is dirty and to be feared. >Abstract Four theories about cultural suppression of female sexuality are evaluated. Data are reviewed on cross-cultural differences in power and sex ratios, reactions to the sexual revolution, direct restraining… Read more »
“Women creating stigma around men with younger women (and not women with younger men)..” I think you might be a bit off here. If a woman is with a younger man, and the younger man is below 18, it is considered wrong, you know. And about the biological reactions you were talking about, it’s not necessarily a woman’s dressing that’s creating it. In my country, it’s the most covered up women who are routinely groped, raped and sexually abused. And by the way, having biological reactions, that is becoming aroused on seeing a woman/man is normal, but acting upon it,… Read more »
Sure, older women with underage men is deemed illegal, but its not stigmatized and shameful, and if it is, no where near to the same extent that men are. Media depicts a man with and underage girl as rape, and when its an older woman, all of sudden its sleeping together and and affair.I remember the writer of this very article, who would be among the first in line to same mean for being attracted to younger women, blaming underage men for female teachers sleeping with them. I don’t think anyone here is saying that clothing is a justification for… Read more »
edit – who would be among the first in line to shame men
Not even remotely to the same degree.
In large part because of the double standard we put upon teenage boys and girls. Boys are encouraged to seek out sexual conquests and to find an older woman to agree makes him look all the more enterprising and cavalier. In contrast, girls are asked to be exceedingly careful and judicious in their sexual encounters, or even “just say no.” In both situations, it seems the male plays the active role and the female plays the passive one. Both the teenage boy and older man are presented as the “pursuers” to their female “pursued” counterparts, even when that’s not at… Read more »
Racati I would agree with you IF we were living in America circa 1950! IF some girls ARE being told this they aren’t listening.
You claim that girls aren’t being shamed for sexuality like they used to be; do you think they should be? While we have made great strides towards gender equality since the ’50s, there are quite a few prominent politicians doing all in their power to bring back many elements of the bad ol’ days.
Also, do you believe boys should be slut-shamed, for that matter?
Racati You wear your politics on your lapel and it doesn’t serve you well.For instance, your questions to me imply that you think I am sexist.Why? Because I don’t assume the worst of this agent?It is stunning to me that you seem to think-based this thumbnail sketch of the “incident”-that you know what this agent’s motivations were.YOU don’t and neither DO I. But you act like you do and you assume the worst of him.Why? Furthermore,the phrase,,some prominent politician’s” is vague and ambiguous,means little and doesn’t bolster your point at all.
Hugo I don’t quote understand why folks are attributing to this agent lust and desire for this girl as reasons for his behavior. In his mind, he may have seen himself fulfilling a fatherly kind of duty. I work in and around teenagers and they are often irresponsible in their choice of dress. And yes the girls and boys dress in ways that are considered attractive to the opposite sex. In American culture, this means dressing seductively, showing flesh. Adult women do this too. All one has to do is look at mainstream female culture to see that women spend… Read more »
Yeah, the man is being painted in the worst possible light and shown zero empathy.
It doesn’t matter that they do it or why they do it. That’s irrelevant. What matters is that as long as it’s legal then no one has a right to shame them for it. It’s not your business! It’s not the business of the TSA agent. Why is this a difficult concept?
“Attraction or arousal in a man for a 15 year old girl is stigmatized in the culture Hugo.”
Ummmm, it SHOULD be stigmatized!
Yes, that is the present attitude, the older women and men that follow women’s lead shame and stigmatize men for being attracted to younger women, but not older women for being with younger men, but its a modern social construct, in reality its perfectly normal. The body doesn’t know social social constructs – that x or y normal bodily function is shameful or wrong, only the mind does.
No, Orchid. It is stigmatized either way. It’s ILLEGAL for an adult to have sex with a 15 year old anywhere in the US. That’s stigma. And “cougar” is not a compliment.
I’m still not convinced that you’re not a troll Orchid but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. What country do you live in where there is LESS stigma about a woman with a younger man. In the media and in the public it’s far more common to see men with younger (sometimes much younger) women. I know grown men started hitting on me when I was bout 16 (as soon as I turned barely legal in my country). Seriously, women are almost ridiculed for being with younger men but men with younger women are seen as normal or… Read more »
@Hugo It certainly seems as though while this agent may have been inappropriate, which doesn’t automatically make it sexist. In fact the underlying premise, that only men feel this way is also just plain wrong. Telling young women that it is ok to feel shamed because of something like this is uniquely disempowering. No wonder so many females, mostly white, have body image problems. Teaching girls to validate so many external considerations is counterproductive. On the Huffpost today there is feature discussing the differences in cultural expressions of beauty. The white host asked the black female guest if it were… Read more »
Lets say there is some culture where a woman noticing the shape of a mans chest underneath his clothes was connected to the among the worst sort of dirty, sinister and shameful, criminality. Would men be then be under pressure from women not to wear clothes that showed the shape of their chest due to the painful emotions it brought up in women? Its highly likely they would, this no doubt happens in sexually repressed cultures where people are under pressure to repress normal sexual thoughts, they police others that might cause them to have painful thoughts. This sort of… Read more »
Further thoughts. The modern female construct is that if this man experiences some biological reaction of arousal from this girl, which would be perfectly normal and beyond his control, he is then a very shameful and disgusting person. At the same time we are supporting this girls right to dress in a way that is going illicit that same biological reaction and if the man wants her to cover up, he is a very shameful and disgusting person. It seems to me that the male in the story is bearing the brunt of the sexual shaming, and that he is… Read more »
I would like to add another perspective. This TSA agent was acting in a professional role, employed to carry out a specific task. If he cannot act professionally and leave his personal opinions/needs/wants out of his job. He should not be there.It is not in his job description to make personal calls because he may or may not be aroused by this girl.
Sure. He was unprofessional. It doesn’t change the bind he is in, had he not said anything and if the attractive 15 year old dressed in a way that arouses a normal biological reaction in him, he is a shameful and disgusting person, according to the current female rules. If women are telling men they are shameful and disgusting for having normal biological reactions, men surely have the right to put up some sort of defense against the sexual shaming? If we are going to sexually shame men for this normal reaction, perhaps the morally correct and decent thing to… Read more »
No, the “current female rules” do not demand you not think certain thoughts. Rather, feminism and human decency demand that you not share those thoughts unprofessionally or in ways that make your thoughts into someone else’s problem. I don’t care if a TSA agent has fantasies about teen girls, I really don’t — as long as his eyes, his mouth, his hands, and his entire demeanor never make the content of those fantasies visible.
We have a right to want whatever we want. We do not have a right to make our wants or our shame into other people’s problem.
>I don’t care if a TSA agent has fantasies about teen girls, I really don’t — as long as his eyes, his mouth, his hands, and his entire demeanor never make the content of those fantasies visible.
Right, as you demonstrate, any arousal or intrusive sexual thoughts he might have felt are stigmatized as shameful and disgusting.
So if that’s how its constructed, fairness seems to dictate that underage girls do cover up. That way there is less sexual shame felt and so less sexual dysfunction.
Orchid, that’s absurd. NO ONE IS STIGMATIZING THOUGHTS. WE ARE STIGMATIZING ACTIONS. And those actions (like leering, or telling a girl to cover up) are EASILY controlled. It’s not women’s job to protect men from fantasizing, or men’s job to protect women. It is everyone’s job to protect everyone else by not harassing or shaming them.
If seeing attractive women makes it difficult to do your job, get another job. Because believe me, plenty of men DO manage to be consummate professionals in the presence of potentially arousing bodies.
It’s super simple, Orchid.
Think whatever you want, about whomever you want. Just keep it to yourself.
The end.
Sure. I think the guy is an ass for doing what he did. I don’t agree with it at all, but I don’t think its simple.
As I’ve already said, I think he was probably prompted by socially constructed sexual shame for noticing a 15 year old in the first place, and he shifted some of the burden on to her.
If this is true, the root of the problem is stigmatizing normal sexual feelings in the first place.
That’s probably true. It’s a “both, and” – he’s both totally wrong in this situation, and there’s a societal element to why he had the impulse to do the wrong thing in the first place. Very true. Not an excuse, an insight.
Well, you cannot be totally wrong if you are protecting yourself from painful emotions. If your noticing the guy shape in the speedos connected you to in your mind the what society considers among the most shameful, disgusting and inappropriate, you would be justified in mounting some sort of defense against the pain you are experiencing. To put you in that position and to insist that the guys have no obligation to not put in such a painful position would constitute cruelty and a bind. that you would recognise fairly easily. However, in certain areas of society there is no… Read more »
Attraction or arousal in a man for a 15 year old girl is stigmatized in the culture Hugo.
Think of this way Hugo.
The mad men guy is walking somewhere with his linen pants that are showing his shape, men and women glance, maybe feel aroused, no problem.
But if noticing was connected to sexual shame, disgust, criminality, stigma and hate for he people noticing, those people might well want him to cover up, to protect themselves from painful emotions like shame and guilt.
To be fair Orchis is coming from the classical US thought. We were founded by Puritans who truly did think that way. Thoughts of impurity were just as bad as actions. On the east coast it is still much more prevalent than on the west coast. I by no means think the US is trying to stick with those believes, but it is a valid point that a lot of culture is still ingrained with, whether they know it or not.
Sorry, “the current female rules?” WTF? What “female rules?” He can think what he wants, but he has no right to act the way he did. He’s also very likely a bully. I doubt he’d have tried that with a 40 year old woman, and I know he would never have done that with a man.
Orchid’s “If we are going to sexually shame men for this normal reaction, perhaps the morally correct and decent thing to do is to have women covered”… Really? Crawl back under the rock you came out from. Welcome to the 21st century you narrow minded idiot. These are the bodies that whatever higher power you believe in gave to us, these are the bodies that birth the world’s children, and these are the bodies that do NOT need to be covered in any fashion to make someone else treat a woman with respect.
Orchid You know Orchid you bring up some points worth discussing. Let’s be honest for once and stop pretending that we don’t live in a place where females play all sorts of games around sex, sexuality lust and desire. It is shameful. I had dinner with friends, one is a professor and his partner is a stay at home wife. She loves to tell the story of how she seduced him, knowing full well he wasn’t supposed to date her, when she one of his students. She tells of wearing mini skirts and push up bras to class and positioning… Read more »
Yes, please lets stop pretending…men play just as many “games” as women, and the only shameful part about it is that as per normal, its only shameful when a woman does it. And lets look at the bigger picture…it is the media that pumps out millions of dollars worth of images per year that sexualize women and give an unhealthy idea to all that women are sexual objects first and foremost. Take all your postings about women, print them off, and give them to your mother. Would you even be able to, and if so, would you still be proud… Read more »
It is absolutely possible for a man to NOT be attracted to a fifteen year old girl. Happens all of the time. He could be aware of himself and the culture where he lives. Not everyone is duped and not everyone is rendered a mindless fool by the system. Am I wired as a man to respond to women that I find attractive, yes. But that doesn’t mean just ANY woman. I have never known any man to be attracted to just any woman, no matter how she is dressed. Dear lord!!
If just had a thought about the shaming.
Perhaps he was transferring his shame onto her?
He is biologically driven to find women sexually attractive, its also constructed as deeply shameful to find women of 15 sexually attractive, the situation could well have given him painful and uncomfortable emotions and feelings of sexual shame, which he then transferred onto her.
Honestly, I don’t think you’re far off on this one point. I think he IS shaming her, but perhaps it starts with his own shame and embarrassment for having felt some attraction for a 15 year old. I don’t think he needs to feel shame about this, but you could be right that this is where it came from.
Not that it’s at all excusable.
> I don’t think he needs to feel shame about this
Its pretty difficult for a normal man that absorbs mainstream messages to notice a 15 year old girl and not feel some sexual shame and disgust with himself for it. Most people can’t just switch off sexual shame or block it out just because they don’t need it.
I agree that it’s probably a mix of transferred shaming and a misplaced inclination to protect: “I see that girl and find her attractive, but have the humanity and self-control not to act on that attraction, but what if other guys out there don’t restrain themselves when I’m not physically there to protect her. What can I do to help make her safe?” Personally, I think it’s that line of logic which needs greater examination. In his head, the agent probably thought he was being a good man with his “advice,” imagining that if she were his daughter, that’s how… Read more »
Put it this way, what would happen at an airport, college, work street or school if men dressed in a way that some women found sexually suggestive or sexually aggressive.
Arrests, harassment suits, claims about rape culture and a hostile environment , get out the fainting couch!!
Not saying that either is right, I believe that shaming is very destructive … I’m just adding some perspective.
I totally agree! Just because someone finds you sexual doesn’t mean you can’t wear comfortable clothing! They can restrain themselves from raping and harassing you, it’s not that hard! 😛
TSA was rude and out of line with a “I’m a cop and you’re not” mentality…nothing more. For Dad to infer more, leads me to believe that maybe Dad has the real psychological problem.
I dropped my son at school today–everyone was wearing shorts, t-shirts, and flip flops…some girls had on summer dresses, which looked really cool and comfortable…
Do we really need to cover up the girls, like the Hasidic Orthodox women, to get a pass from the TSA guy? (I was just reading “Un-Orthodox” by Deborah Feldman…she got groped even though she was modestly dressed!)….
While Im not for public shaming at all, in the west women have more freedom with what they can wear and how much skin they can show.
If a male was walking through and airport wearing clothes that reveal as much as a woman’s revealing clothes, someone might call the police.
Orchid, I don’t know where you live, but in LA I see men in public places in extremely revealing clothes all the time. Particularly since I live near the beach. Today I saw two naked butts on the side of Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica as the surfers changed from wetsuits into shorts. At the beach with my kids, there were two guys in yellow banana hammocks (ie Speedos) and I could tell whether or not they were circumcised. This doesn’t bother me, just as Brazillian bikini bottoms don’t bother me. But it’s so false to say men don’t… Read more »
>t could be you just notice the women more? No, I was reading an article today about a “misogynist” judge that was asking women that worked in the court to observe a dress code, there was some outrage, but when you looked at it, all he was asking was that women cover up as much as the men. Same goes for any professional setting, women show more than men. Clubs, typically the same thing women showing more. I have a friend who wore womens leggings, obviously they left little to the imagination as they do on women, he was noticed,… Read more »
And the speedos, they are generally the smallest beach bottoms you will see on men, typically womens bottoms cover less, some are just tiny and men are tending to wear beach shorts, which cover more space than most bikinis do.
More competitive water sports is the only area where women typically cover more than men I can think of, when women are wearing an all in one they don’t have to keep fixing that can’t come off easily from water pressure, and men are typically wearing speedos.
Men wear tight jeans all the time in LA, and where I live all I see all day long are dudes in bicycle shorts and cycling jerseys, which is the equivalent of a dude in leggings and a leggings shirt.
I still, somehow, maintain my ability to not tell them to cover up, put something on, dress appropriately – and even more amazingly, I have never once sexually assaulted a single of them.
Im not really sure what the competition here is here, men are worse? Women have it worse? Ratio of skin to cloth, in most situations men are expected to have more cloth and less skin than women, in the west. That’s just a fact. >I still, somehow, maintain my ability to not tell them to cover up, put something on, dress appropriately – and even more amazingly, I have never once sexually assaulted a single of them. Same goes for most people regardless of their biological demographic I think. I do believe that men if they exhibit like women commonly… Read more »
No, the issue is that the TSA agent had no right—neither legal nor moral—to tell a 15 year old girl to “cover up.” Not sure why that’s so complicated for you, Orchid.
Everything about a woman according to popular culture is “sexual”. We’d have to wear a burkha to cover up as much as men.
I don’t think women have ever been required to cover their armpits. Aren’t they excretory glands?
Well, beaches have, by definition I would say, a slightly more relaxed dresscode than most other parts of society…
How often do you see men in banana hammocks at an airport?
How often do you see bikinis in an airport? I mean, come on now.
I see a lot of men with three buttons undone on their dress shirts and deep v-necks.
Again, this is ridiculous. Even if women DO show more, I have a ton of faith in men that they can handle it.
Joanna Schroeder,
How often do you see bikinis in an airport? I mean, come on now.
You don’t. (At least not aroud here, I don’t know about LA.) That was my point.
I’m not saying the TS officer did the right thing. I don’t even know the circumstances for this specific incident. I just think you’re going a bit hyperbolic when comparing “dress codes” of a public beach with that of an airport, or just about any other public area.
And for the record, I too have that much faith in humanity in general.
This is totally not true. I live in Morocco and today I was approached by two women and told that my clothing was too revealing — I was wearing a modest summer dress, no cleavage, down to about my knees. A few hours later I saw men walking along the street wearing only bathings suits — and no one told them anything and no one thought it was indecent or complained. Maybe mens’ bathing suits cover more than a bikini does — but if I was wearing my bikini on the city street I would be attacked within seconds —… Read more »
Hey Hugo, good to have you here. The conversations are just that much more interesting when you’re around. If this story is true this guy is done. TSA is not even interested in you talking to passengers let alone making criticisms. Maybe he wanted to get fired in some twisted fifteen minutes of fame way and at the same time make TSA look bad. Or maybe he just lost it that day. And in the interest of accuracy the title is officer, not agent. As in TSO (Transportation Security Officer). Here’s hoping we hear more from you around here my… Read more »