CowGal
06-03-2010, 12:18 AM
I don't know about other ladies on the site, but I really resent having to strip to go through TSA's security checkpoint at the airport. I sometimes wear a camisole top underneath a shear tailored button down shirt, with the buttons open. Because the buttons are open, they alway make me take my shirt off. You'd think I'd get smart and just wear a tee-shirt or a sweat shirt, but I like to accessorize. I think that I have the right to keep my shirt on. My camisole is like underwear and I don't like the idea of exposing my bra-straps to the world. If I insisted on keeping it on they would call in the Air Marshalls or airport police and I wouldn't make my flight. I have been detained before at the Canadian border for two hours because I was a woman with dark hair traveling alone. They went through all of my stuff including all my lotions and underwear in my backpack. I sometimes think that the TSA agents like fingering women's underwear. I keep my dirty laundry in a separate plastic bag and they insisted on going through it anyway. They have asked me to provide the phone number and address of the person that I was visiting and they actually called him. What if I wasn't visiting anyone and was just on a trip by myself? I was the last person at the airport on a holiday weekend because they only had one flight coming in from San Francisco that day. There were no more incoming flights. I had DHL airbills in my back pack and they asked why I had them. They were clearly imprinted with my company's name in the return address section. I said that I sometimes mail things to people I work with, which is true. I mail documents that they can't find while I'm gone, and typically its very hard to get an internet connection overseas with your personal laptop.
I think if you have a thin shirt on regardless of whether it is buttoned or not, that you should be able to keep it on going through security. Men don't seem to have the same problem because they wouldn't wear a camisole underneath their shirt and the TSA agents wouldn't make them take their shirts off. Also, the whole thing about taking your shoes off to go through is a crock. I resent having to walk in my bare or stockinged feet over floor that thousands of people, some of them with athelete's foot and other grody diseases have walked over in their bare feet. That is so gross. They try to protect us from contagious respiratory diseases like SARS and H1N1, but what about a fungal disease from a tropical country that could stick with you for the rest of your life?
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I think if you have a thin shirt on regardless of whether it is buttoned or not, that you should be able to keep it on going through security. Men don't seem to have the same problem because they wouldn't wear a camisole underneath their shirt and the TSA agents wouldn't make them take their shirts off. Also, the whole thing about taking your shoes off to go through is a crock. I resent having to walk in my bare or stockinged feet over floor that thousands of people, some of them with athelete's foot and other grody diseases have walked over in their bare feet. That is so gross. They try to protect us from contagious respiratory diseases like SARS and H1N1, but what about a fungal disease from a tropical country that could stick with you for the rest of your life?
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