{"id":69781,"date":"2022-02-12T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=69781"},"modified":"2022-02-11T09:29:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T14:29:52","slug":"qotd-one-of-those-pre-9-11-things-weve-lost-personal-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/02\/12\/qotd-one-of-those-pre-9-11-things-weve-lost-personal-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: One of those pre-9\/11 things we’ve lost … personal dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I was directed, shoeless, into the little pen with the black plastic swinging door. A stranger approached, a tall woman with burnt-orange hair. She looked in her 40s. She was muscular, her biceps straining against a tight Transportation Security Administration T-shirt. She carried her wand like a billy club. She began her instructions: Face your baggage. Feet in the footmarks. Arms out. Fully out. Legs apart. Apart. I’m patting you down. <\/p>\n

It was like a 1950s women’s prison movie. I got to be the girl from the streets who made a big mistake; she was the guard doing intake. “Name’s Veronica, but they call me Ron. Want a smoke?” Beeps and boops, her pointer and middle fingers patting for explosives under the back of my brassiere; the wand on and over my body, more beeps, more pats. The she walked wordlessly away. I looked around, slowly put down my arms, rearranged my body. For a moment I thought I might plaintively call out, “No kiss goodbye? No, ‘I’ll call’?” But they might not have been amused. And actually I wasn’t either.<\/p>\n

I experienced the search not only as an invasion of privacy, which it was, but as a denial or lowering of that delicate thing, dignity. The dignity of a woman, of a lady, of a person with a right not to be manhandled or to be, or to feel, molested.<\/p>\n

Peggy Noonan, “Embarassing the Angels”, Wall Street Journal<\/em>, 2006-03-02.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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