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According to USA Today, SUP is at the forefront of sociology. Our demands for privacy are not only outmoded and outdated, they are not socially beneficial.

I don't like this society. Can I please have interstellar travel now so I can go elsewhere?

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I had roommates who were arrested 3 weeks after 9/11 for LARPing with a real-looking cap gun because some little girl saw "people shooting each other outside" & the mom called 5-0.

Granted, said roommates were METEORICALLY FUCKING CRAZY (with intenet proof as evidence), but still...overreaction. And I never DID get an apology for cops pointing their guns at me.

Back just after 9/11, my high school suspended a girl for having nail clippers at school. Nail clippers. A girl. Go figure a girl would have stuff to fix a nail in her purse, right? *facepalm*

I love the stories about women being detained at airports because their underwires were setting off the metal detector, & then declined to be physically searched by people who could not grasp the concept of "inferential logic." Gee, if her tits are that big, I wonder would could possible by make the wand go off near mid-torso?

Did you hear the one about the woman who got detained for bringing breast milk for her baby aboard a plane and refusing to taste some of it?

Elementary school kid got suspended for bringing scissors to school. Words cannot describe how happy I am that I'm long gone from that mess. Ooo, scary, my office has metal scissors, a stapler, a staple remover, a hole punch and *HORROR* a shredder. Office supplies are scary, ya know.

I heard about that. It was after that whole 'fluids as explosives mess" and it was over the new restrictions for carrying fluids on board planes. They wanted her to taste it to make absolutely sure it was breast milk like she said it was and she balked.

I don't blame her. That's crazy.

Meanwhile, right around that same time, I got all the way through two airports with a metal butter knife in my carry on. One was a major international airport. *facepalm* They stopped me in the tiny local airport and treated me like a terrorist. I totally forgot I had it in there. My previous apartment had a slight issue fixing the lock on my door. You have no idea how safe it made me feel that I could get into my apartment with a butter knife but not my key...

Last time I flew, in April, I specifically wore just a t shirt and leggings, so I wouldn't have to worry about remembering to empty pockets or anything.

Barefoot, no jewelry, no pockets...and my I cup tits are beeping..hmmm, wonder what it could be? Surely not the 1/3" wide wires in my bra! I must have told them half a dozen times that I had an underwire bra on, before they whisked me off to a giant plastic box, and sent a woman in to frisk me.

Honestly..I'm not sure which freaks me out more - the fact that they haven't figured out that underwires set the metal detector off, or the fact that the woman ran her hands down my sides, stared at me for a minute, shrugged, and went "Oh well, I don't know what it is, go ahead."