Things that will likely show up in a full body scanner: Urinary catheters. Incontinence pads. Colostomy and ileostomy bags. PEG feeding tubes. Mastectomy prostheses. Certain medication pumps and implanted ports, such as insulin pumps. TENS machines. Pacemakers. The bodies, including genitalia, of transgender and intersex and genderqueer people.

— Backscatter X-ray scanners, security theatre, and marginalised bodies [via]

First of all, what’s it matter where she “got” her boobs? As a cis woman, no one’s ever talked about where I “got” mine. Secondly, who the hell is to say that they’re “fake,” like the fake Louis Vuitton purse he just finished describing? Who gets to decide “real”? I can’t be the only one who finds it highly offensive to compare another person’s body to a cheap, knock-off accessory. And third, what the fuck is the “she knew how to work it” bullshit? She’s a high school girl, and his fucking student. And why the hell wouldn’t she know how to make her own body look good? Most importantly of all, why the assumption that he has a right to talk about her breasts at all? I find all of that to be wildly presumptuous, objectifying and inappropriate.

— By Any Other Name