April 19th, 2011 at 9:16AM
If you’re a dude who has never been groped against your will, and who is typically socialized as masculine, this has got to be the most astonishing and unresolvable experience ever. There is a reason why the loudest voices of protest have been male: men are not socially conditioned to accept that groping may happen, occasionally, in shared spaces, and that they should not raise the alarm but should simply “let it go”, that making a fuss would draw unwanted attention, that it isn’t “worth it”. Men have not spent their lives watching those who did speak up get condemned or blamed for their assault because they were “asking for it. —

The lady is a tramp: On getting my bits touched by the TSA (via theoryofgravity)

I think this is a really important point; it doesn’t make the outrage at the TSA procedures any less genuine, but it does explain the intensity and the shock that was so apparent in the “don’t touch my junk” protests. 
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