From the DailyCaller:

The young, male TSA officer walks slowly down the line of airline passengers waiting to clear security. He looks down at tickets, up at faces, then points to those whom he selects for additional screening. In a theoretically possible, albeit unlikely, random sample, when the officer reaches the end of the long queue, we find that every passenger he has chosen for further scrutiny is female.

As I watched this scene unfold at Washington, DC’s Reagan-National Airport recently, the moment that struck me most was when the officer looked down at my ticket and seemed about to pull me aside. But when he raised his eyes to see my face, he veered his blue-gloved finger, already in mid-air, toward the woman standing behind me.

I readily admit I do not know what was in that young man’s head, but the facts of the incident are straightforward: He appeared about to select me and, after he saw my face, opted for a female instead; further, everyone he picked was a woman.

Since the TSA stepped up its use of full-body x-ray scanners and invasive hand searches at America’s airports, almost every female traveler I know has at least one story of being scanned and/or patted down — and in some cases, they advise it happens every time they fly. Meanwhile, very few of the men I speak to report anything similar.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/12/06/is-the-tsa-targeting-women/#ixzz17NiM7nWo

Note from JAMES: When travelling with a large group of family members about three months ago, all SIX of the females (which included several teenagers) in our group were flagged to the full body scan while every one of the males were waived through the standard security. This was just prior to the implementation of the “enhanced pat downs”; the TSA inspector denied that only women were being flagged, yet as we watched, they continued only sending women through the full body scan.
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