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Is this article supposed to be irony? All the terms he used to describe the procedures in question violate the rule he just laid out. The TSA is not "raping" yo

Is this article supposed to be irony? All the terms he used to describe the procedures in question violate the rule he just laid out. The TSA is not "raping" you, the scanners are not "pornographic" (any more than an CT, X-ray, or MRI scanner is), and the risk of cancer from these machines is likely so low that calling them "carcinogenic" is downright dishonest. Don't get me wrong, I am not in favor of any of the TSA's actions here, but it seems the height of hypocrisy to write a blog post critical of the dishonesty of TSA's language while attacking them with equally misleading and dishonest terms.

sophacles 16y ago
His point is this: The TSA tested one thing, released another, which caused backlash. In that backlash, the names commonly used by everyone but libel-fearing reporters and the TSA themselves changed to porno-scanners, gate-rape, etc. The TSA's names are no longer relevant, because they were misleading at the start -- therefore the common, unflattering, name has become the used name. He uses the terms to drive home the point.