SNL TSA Skit and Feminisnt: Pat Downs and Porno Scanners- Video

by Jordan Yerman | November 22, 2010 at 09:02 am

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SNL TSA Skit: "It's Our Business to Touch Yours"

Saturday Night Live created a mock TV commercial for the TSA. The skitis styled after a phone-sex ad, with soft light and breathy line deliveries. "Spending quality time with a TSA agent couldn't be easier... simply book a flight departing from any American airport".

The ad could not be more topical-- we're yet to see an issue unite left and right quite like the prospect of getting felt up by bored mall cops as you try to make your flight.

The SNL TSA ad ends with one of the "spokeswomen" saying, "It's our business to touch yours". Another possibility would have been "Our hands are on your ass, but our head is up our own", but hey- we're not comedy writers.

Furry Girl: Feminisnt Blogger Molests Back

If you want to see a real life intersection of the TSA and strippers, then it's your lucky day. Furry Girl, the sex worker and pornographer who runs Feminisnt decided to turn the tables on a process she says is geared towards humiliation by going "transparent to the TSA".

Furry Girl wore transparent lingerie to Sea-Tac airport, stripping down at the security checkpoint. An audibly panicked TSA officer orders her to put her jacket back on, even as she asserts that she doesn't want to break the TSA's own rules. Her argument is that the invasive pat-down is meant to intimidate passengers into submitting to the x-ray "porno scanners", and that passengers should be able to turn the tables quite easily.

The idea behind Furry Girl's little protest is simple: make TSA agents hate the new security measures even more than you do. Will this sort of protest catch on? the TSA desperately hopes not.

My TSA Stripdown: Nov 21 at Seatac from Furry Girl's Feminisnt.com on Vimeo.

Over on HuffPo, Caprice Crane has some ideas on how to make your own special encounter with the TSA more memorable:

Just prior to the pat-down, put your iPhone on speaker and play some 70's porn music. This will set the mood.

Then say, "Without getting into the gory details, you might want to double up on the latex gloves." Wink and add, "you'll thank me later."