Time for my ritual denunciation of the TSA, which commences every time I go through airport security
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I'm tempted tbh
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As a white male, I go thru airport security on Easy Mode as I watch others get a really hard time. Pisses me off. So, sometimes I opt out of the x-ray scanner, just so I can exercise my right to -force- another human to touch my butt. Take THAT, TSA!
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Is this satire
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No. The racial profiling infuriates me; in another era my Irish/Jew ("white") self would have been That Guy. The "butt" thing is a way to invert the power dynamic (most people rightly don't want to be touched) by INSISTING I be touched. It's my mild form of civil disobedience.
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I sometimes explain to the security officers that this system creates an emergent phenomenon that (to my knowledge) exists nowhere else on earth; A law-given mandate in which I can force someone else to touch my ass.
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I find the whole MMWD device creepy, and the opt-out process coercive (well, if you don't want to use the scary x-ray machine, we're going to mildly assault you). The gendering of the opt-out also bothers me. Why assume I am more comfortable being groped by a male vs a female?
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And, why assume that a male/female TSA agent is more/less comfortable with a given gender? If "sexuality" is the issue, how do they know I'm not homosexual? How do I know the male agent isn't? It's all bullshit, and the butt thing is my way of lashing out and making a scene.
End of conversation
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Jillette explains the gag, then the presenter interrupts to laboriously re-explains the gag, killing any humour it might've contained. We'll never know now.
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