*shrug* Perhaps there needs to be a special line of clothing for "airline wear" to avoid such incidents.

Lair,
I would love it if bra manufacturers could come up with a design for big boobs like mine that did not require underwires - but so far, those are the only bras that support me.

Hmmmm... Maybe I can get a part time job at the airport :)

Stu - they only let women check out women - you would get to check out the men's luggage, so to speak.

This would be more excuseable if it were actually making us safer. But what it actually is is an attempt to make us feel safer without actually making us any safer and that, IMO, is unconscionable. Especially since that's a total flop and is just making us angrier.

I'd flop too without underwiring ;-)

Well I feel bad for you on more accounts than just the searching at airports. I feel bad you have to wear underwire. I hate those things. One day at work (in my cube), I was being pinched so bad, in a fit of near insanity I reached under my blouse with scissors, cut a hole where the tip of the wire was and pulled it out. I often wonder now if we had secret cameras there... I'm sure security was lovin' that one...

How appropriate that you posted on underwires today when I had one snap in the middle of Target this morning! Arrgh.
I have been really airport lucky so far, the most invasive search I went through was at a college football game, and that was nearly humiliating.

So women are feeling up other women at the airport? Are they lesbians?

Men are lucky. We don't have underwire underpants!

I am of two minds on the question of clothing-piercing radar. On the one hand, I seem to have lost a good boy-and-girl type relationship, lately, because I'm uncomfortable with *anyone*, even my sweety, sleeping in the same bed with me.

Those feelings go QUINTUPLE about getting felt up by some creepy lowlife TSA mouth-breather!

On the other hand, the Radar Grope (NOT the same as Radar Love) seems awfully creepy to me, too.

On the gripping hand, I try to arrange my life in such a way that I don't have to ride in common-carrier airliners. Archie Bunker got it right the first time; ISSUE firearms to the airline passengers (appropriate ammo, of course) because the vast majority of the passengers want to get to the place they've paid money to be flown to, and can be trusted to act appropriately.

Well, I'll admit, not always. I remember how shocked I was, back in 1975 or thenabouts, when I had to accept an Eastern flight from Atlanta to Miami. The flight originated in NEW YORK CITY. I had never been locked up in an aluminum tube with so many obnoxious people before, and I hope nothing similar will happen again. Of course, that was when the Delta folks , the only airline types with whom I was familiar, were still polite and friendly, as were my fellow customers on that line.