We have already established that the pat-downs are deliberately punitive. They are intended to make people feel uncomfortable and violated--by being sexually violating. That's how they are supposed to be unpleasant. That's a deliberate psychological abusive strategy. This is institutionalized low-level sexual assault--that is the psychological buttons the TSA is trying to push.
At that point, efforts to subvert encounter that to turn the psychological tables on the abuser may very well be appropriate. Again, the screener can always choose not to touch you in that way.
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We have already established that the pat-downs are deliberately punitive. They are intended to make people feel uncomfortable and violated--by being sexually violating. That's how they are supposed to be unpleasant. That's a deliberate psychological abusive strategy. This is institutionalized low-level sexual assault--that is the psychological buttons the TSA is trying to push.
At that point, efforts to subvert encounter that to turn the psychological tables on the abuser may very well be appropriate. Again, the screener can always choose not to touch you in that way.