Just as computers created the possibility of instantly making a mistake that formerly would have taken weeks of effort by a roomful of scientists, so government security agencies create the possibility of new awful acts that could once only have been dreamed of. The latest is committing sexual assault passively.
Those wonderful folks at the TSA, who presumably have not outgrown thinking it would be really neat to be Superman so you could use your x-ray vision to look under girls' dresses, offer their new device or the alternative possibility of a really thorough manual examination (though I believe it stops short of cavity search). So some bloggers have suggested that men show up for the flight wearing kilts with nothing underneath, and others have called that sexual assault.
But it's like phone spam. Back before we had opt-out lists and caller ID, I often found myself dealing with an auditory home invader and not being able to get any fun out of verbally abusing him because I knew he was just someone doing a crappy job for low wages and I couldn't get at the real perps. Likewise, only more so, with passively abusing the TSA workers.
I'm one of the fortunate few who don't fear the magic scanner. I'm already sterile, and as my similar-age friend D. Gary Grady said, if someone sees me naked, who suffers more? I'm still agin it.
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