Is underwire really a lethal weapon?
Airport security apparently thinks so. Carol Lloyd Oct. 18, 2007 | Too bad Susan Faludi’s “The Terror Dream” hit the stores before Lori Plato attempted to enter an Idaho courtroom last month. The tireless chronicler of conscious and unconscious misogyny could have had yet another example of the way an obsession with homeland security can translate into new discomforts and dangers for women. Along with procedures guarding against explosive breast milk, we now have a new national threat: the underwire bra. According to the Associated Press, Plato set off security alarms when she and her husband were entering a federal courthouse in Coeur d’Alene. Plato told the AP that the U.S. Marshals Service not only asked Plato to remove her bra but gave her no viable options for doing so with any measure of privacy: “I asked if I could go into the bathroom because they didn’t have a privacy screen and no women security officers were available. They said, ‘No.'” Plato told the AP that when she placed
