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So this thread's tangent was about how a woman grabbing a man's chest isn't as likely to be considered sexual harassment as the reverse. That's just my default assumption, based partly on hearsay from people I went to school with, but also on the pattern in which sex crimes are more likely to be considered endearing when committed by female perpetrators as a whole.
I'm kind of left wondering, now, how much complaints about the TSA and/or stop-and-frisk (assuming it's been continued in other places since being scrapped in New York) would be reduced if the people carrying them out happened to be female. Females searched would be less likely to interpret this as sexual, and males who did interpret it that way would probably be less likely to be offended. I've no doubt the usual "they're just doing this to get black people on drug use" concerns would still apply, so there would still be some minimum baseline of complaints. However, the rate of complaints; and the reactions of others to those complaints; could serve as a way to both test our theory of male and female reactions to this, and if they're true, make these things less unpleasant for everyone involved.
What do you think, NSG?
