Gigi Bella – TSA PSA [Video]

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Gigi Bella, performing at Rustbelt 2019 in St. Louis, MO.

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To the really attractive tattooed TSA man at the Albuquerque, New Mexico Sunport:
0:12
please do not open the box for my hot pink Cardi B vibrator.
0:17
This is an extremely open area.
0:19
My mom is watching through the window
0:21
to ensure that I make it to the other side.
0:24
I am convinced that you are probably
0:26
the most beautiful man in all of Albuquerque.
0:28
You, a blue latex-gloved early 2000s emo frontman.
0:33
Gerard Way meets Dirty Dancing Patrick Swayze,
0:36
or Gerard Wayze, as I’ve affectionately named you.
0:40
Everyone in this airport looks like a southwestern adobe gutter troll.
0:44
How are you even here?
0:45
Why are you handling my bag?
0:47
Maybe in a La La Land twist of planetarium fate,
0:50
we both drift upward from the long steel table,
0:53
some Willy Wonka fizzy lifting drink shit,
0:56
and the vibrator floats out of my bag,
0:58
and we dance to some Caucasian orchestral symphony.
1:01
As we drift back to the ground,
1:03
you hold the vibrator in your hand and look lovingly into my soft gaze
1:07
with a knowing stare that says
1:09
you’ve been looking for a woman empowered by her own sexual freedom
1:12
for some time now.
1:14
My pink vibrator is one of the hottest things about me.
1:17
Your heart is giving me a standing ovation for my bravery,
1:20
and so is your penis.
1:21
I run back all the questions I had to ask at the sex shop,
1:25
all the Amazon reviews I had to read.
1:27
A single tear rolls gingerly down your face
1:29
as you immortalize me as a hero.
1:31
In your memory, you tell me that the most beautiful thing about me
1:35
is that I do not need you,
1:36
that my freedom is self-sufficient
1:39
and aware and bright fucking pink,
1:40
that I know myself so well so that you might know me all the way.
1:44
This sparkly whole heart is a dildo treasure chest,
1:47
modicum of self-love,
1:49
a sculpture of survival I can hold in my hands.
1:52
A man touched me once
1:53
until I wished myself into all of the untouched.
1:56
This vibrator is a hum that says that I am still alive,
1:59
and I deserve consensual fucking orgasms and love
2:03
and the way your Bradley Cooper hair falls in your face.
2:05
Maybe I do deserve for you to open the box.
2:08
Maybe it’s time for the world to see me for the brave bad bitch that I am.
2:11
To find myself as the thottie having more orgasms than you.
2:15
I just went from hoping that you wouldn’t open the box at all
2:18
to hoping you will whip that bitch out for the whole damn world to see.
2:21
The right person would not be intimidated by all my holy fem dildo.
2:25
Jesus, the right person would pray to the soft pink saint of me.
2:29
The right person would know
2:30
that I am the most radiant when I am free.
2:34
(cheers and applause)

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