My husband and I decided to eat at a local restaurant this past Saturday. It is a really good place with a global cuisine menu so you can pretty much get whatever kind of food you are craving.
You have to pass through a security check to get into the mall to eat at this restaurant so that was what we did on Saturday. As we walked through the doors the male security guard waves me on in but stops Lance to then pass the "wand" over him to ensure has no crazy things on him like metal items, guns, or knives which of course he doesn't carry. What struck me as odd was that I was carrying my usual gargantuan sized purse that could have had anything in it but because I was a woman, and thus un-wandable, I was not searched or even asked to open the bag.
This happens all over India. If you are women and you are going into a mall, hotel, whatever and there is not a female guard on duty (to search your person and purse) then no one checks you over because a male security guard can not wand a women in India nor can he search her bag. It is true! Sometimes you go into a mall and there is a female only security screening area that forces you to go behind this flimsy, little screen to be wanded so the men passing through their own security check don't see and get all "flustered" or something...because lets face it a security check is so interesting right! :)
In airports in India they have completely separate lines for men and women to pass through. And for once, the women's line is always shorter than the men's (I think that is because less women seem to travel in India or maybe it is because they really take their time checking out the men to be sure they are safe).
Anyways, thus I have come to believe that we (women) just can't do something evil like bring in something illegal into the building.
So I laugh whenever this happens to Lance and he is the only one of us that is searched. I just say in an accusatory tone while pointing at him, "You men are so evil! See how they always have to search you! You should be ashamed of your gender."
He just laughs and looks down at me out of the corner of his eye while raising his eyebrow and says, "They don't know my wife!"
(Of course neither one of us would break the rules and he is kidding but it is funny none the less.)
You have to pass through a security check to get into the mall to eat at this restaurant so that was what we did on Saturday. As we walked through the doors the male security guard waves me on in but stops Lance to then pass the "wand" over him to ensure has no crazy things on him like metal items, guns, or knives which of course he doesn't carry. What struck me as odd was that I was carrying my usual gargantuan sized purse that could have had anything in it but because I was a woman, and thus un-wandable, I was not searched or even asked to open the bag.
This happens all over India. If you are women and you are going into a mall, hotel, whatever and there is not a female guard on duty (to search your person and purse) then no one checks you over because a male security guard can not wand a women in India nor can he search her bag. It is true! Sometimes you go into a mall and there is a female only security screening area that forces you to go behind this flimsy, little screen to be wanded so the men passing through their own security check don't see and get all "flustered" or something...because lets face it a security check is so interesting right! :)
In airports in India they have completely separate lines for men and women to pass through. And for once, the women's line is always shorter than the men's (I think that is because less women seem to travel in India or maybe it is because they really take their time checking out the men to be sure they are safe).
Anyways, thus I have come to believe that we (women) just can't do something evil like bring in something illegal into the building.
So I laugh whenever this happens to Lance and he is the only one of us that is searched. I just say in an accusatory tone while pointing at him, "You men are so evil! See how they always have to search you! You should be ashamed of your gender."
He just laughs and looks down at me out of the corner of his eye while raising his eyebrow and says, "They don't know my wife!"
(Of course neither one of us would break the rules and he is kidding but it is funny none the less.)
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