Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"Back when I was in college, I spent some time doing Quaker plain dress. Skirt, bonnet, the whole nine yards.

"On my way home for the holidays once, I ended up in line at airport security behind a woman in hijab. The TSA agent watching the line told her she'd have to take her hijab off.

"Hearing this, I started taking off my bonnet.

"The TSA agent then leaned around her to tell me that I was okay to leave my bonnet on.

"We both stopped and glared.

"The TSA agent, realizing what they'd just been caught out doing, waved us both through with our hair coverings intact.

"The moral of this story is that privileged people can sometimes provide a shield to less privileged people by making the discrimination obvious and eliminating plausible deniability."

-- Annalee at the Geek Feminism blog, 2013-09-09

Edit: Forgot to mention that I got this quote from realinterrobang.