I haven't heard every story, but most of the things I've seen reported suggest that the TSA is at least trying to pretend that they're behaving professionally - bullying with authority rather than bullying with vulgarity. The most inappropriate personal remarks I've seen so far is reports of someone supposedly paging an agent to say "lol there's a hottie here" and then swearing the person reporting it misheard.
So I would assume the agents have been told not to make personal comments. Which doesn't say it would never happen, of course, just that I don't consider it inevitable.
(The times I've been patted down at the airport previously - I can't remember if it was twice or just once - it was all done very politely and wasn't a problem for me at all. But this was pre 'enhanced' procedure, and not being done in a punitive fashion.)
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So I would assume the agents have been told not to make personal comments. Which doesn't say it would never happen, of course, just that I don't consider it inevitable.
(The times I've been patted down at the airport previously - I can't remember if it was twice or just once - it was all done very politely and wasn't a problem for me at all. But this was pre 'enhanced' procedure, and not being done in a punitive fashion.)