11-22-2010, 01:40 PM
Help train TSA employees to curb their enthusiasm for "enhanced patdowns"! You can do a public service!
Physically unattractive people needed. Must be exhibitionistic and insensitive to criticism. Bad grooming habits and an aversion to bathing a plus.
Seriously, what if consistent bias on the basis of physical appearance could be documented? I assume that such bias occurs in that if you are sufficiently gross nobody really digs into your "junk". Pair young and attractive people up with less attractive people. Have them each wear similar undergarments, totally harmless so the participants don't get arrested needlessly, but sufficiently different so that they trigger the search.
I am 5'-10" tall and during college I weighed 118 lbs so I was fairly wraith-like. I was trading stories with another similarly skinny guy and he described being searched prior to entering a concert in Boston. The security man felt his hip bone and there were a couple of tense minutes during which the security guard wouldn't let go (of the hip bone). Of course he couldn't get the offending hip out. Apparently thought it was a flask of alcohol.
Physically unattractive people needed. Must be exhibitionistic and insensitive to criticism. Bad grooming habits and an aversion to bathing a plus.
Seriously, what if consistent bias on the basis of physical appearance could be documented? I assume that such bias occurs in that if you are sufficiently gross nobody really digs into your "junk". Pair young and attractive people up with less attractive people. Have them each wear similar undergarments, totally harmless so the participants don't get arrested needlessly, but sufficiently different so that they trigger the search.
I am 5'-10" tall and during college I weighed 118 lbs so I was fairly wraith-like. I was trading stories with another similarly skinny guy and he described being searched prior to entering a concert in Boston. The security man felt his hip bone and there were a couple of tense minutes during which the security guard wouldn't let go (of the hip bone). Of course he couldn't get the offending hip out. Apparently thought it was a flask of alcohol.