The news reports I read all focus on the attack, but I’m just confused why/how it could get to the point where this man thought his only recourse was to attack, especially in a world where you can make a lot of money by threatening employers with lawsuits.

But I could tell TSA was full of self-hating, latent-homo ex-schoolyard-bullies long before this. Not all of them of course, but I’d estimate well north of 3/4 of em.

Seriously, can you imagine enduring jokes about your manhood for over a year to hold onto a $12/hr TSA job in this wrecked economy.

Where is the maturity? Are these people 10-year-olds? Why are they behaving like it?

There are all kinds of people with all kinds of physical appearances. A flacid penis is nothing like an erect one in size. As Americans have beefed up and fattened up on a corn fed diet and that fat helps estrogen production so far too many american men have bitch-tit and microphalus. I imagine most of them are really uncomfortable with that already. Now because of a horrible compulsion to control everything our congress has the TSA agents are going to have see that with there must have to see every freaking thing scanners. The thing they could do is be humane and understanding but no, that’s not going to happen.

One thing I can’t freakin stand about the authoritarian bullies (weather these TSA agents, the Abu Garab guards stripping people and pointing, the closet right wing crusaders, or the rethuglican geezer who forwards you the horrible chain mail) is there sexual immaturity. Didn’t these guys grow up? They are not adults but horrible children doing horrible things to others they perceive as different.

“If you’ve nothing to hide…”

There is nothing indicating scale in the photo posted above in the BB story, but to my untrained eye it looks a little pasty. To his credit, though, it does seem to have a symmetrical and rather classical form.

“The source of their conflict, police say: mano-a-mano ribbing about the size of the screener’s genitalia.”

‘Mano-a-mano’ means ‘hand to hand’, not ‘man to man’.

Hand-to-hand ribbing about his genitalia ?

I’m not sure that was the intended meaning !

Because a being a TSA agent is a little like playing a watered down version of GTA IRL.

Not enough attention paid to this. Didn’t they promise there would not be a mechanism for printouts?

That’s not true at all. Ever take a magnifying glass out in sunlight and burn leaves or paper with it? The only thing you changed was the intensity of the light.

I wonder, when will the day come when a female TSA officer accuses their fellow female officer of having a small vagina which subsequently erupts into a battle with vaginal shaped steel weapons?