Interesting! He was 64 at the time.
Yeah, I think it’s the loss of collagen or something like that.
I wouldn’t read anything into how GE/Nexus interviews are conducted.
When I first applied for Global Entry 6+ years ago the agent read out a few details from my application like my name, date of birth, etc and asked me to confirm they were correct. He asked some other trivial question that I don’t remember. That was it.
My wife and (minor) daughter had their interview a couple of weeks later with a different agent. He asked my wife a couple of simple questions, including where she had traveled in the past 5 years. He didn’t ask my daughter anything.
So I don’t think it means anything. It all seemed like merely a formality. After all, the background investigation has already taken place by the time you’re invited for the interview, and they have records of all your international travel.
It depends what they find. I know someone who got extensively questioned because - if I recall correctly - he had once been stopped for bring in Cuban cigars or something? He wasn’t arrested or anything, but I guess that got added to his dossier so when he went for his Global Entry interview - also expecting a mere formality - it was quite a hassle, He was granted Global Entry in the end, though.
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Another example of the privilege I enjoy. Since moving to Washington I’ve been pulled over 4 times for traffic violations; 3 times for speeding and once for failing to stop completely at a stop sign.
4 violations, four warnings, no citations.
I attribute it white, polite, male, respectful, and not wearing a hoodie 
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So, unrelated to male privilege, right?
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Unknowable
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I can do one better. Not stopped for speeding since 1986, despite being one of the faster drivers on the road.
Should I attribute that to male privilege? Or non-white privilege? Or white car privilege? Or observant driver privilege? Or random luck privilege?
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Interesting topic. In general I’m one of the slower drivers where I live. Everyone speeds, including me, but I often find myself being aggressively tailgated because I’m only going 5 over the limit.
When it comes to avoiding speed traps, Waze is my friend. 
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My nephew is going into hs this fall. I’d say he is a sweet kid. I was just asking him about a summer community sports team he is on. He said it was just ok, because there are girls on the teams and….”well you know”. I told him I didn’t and he needed to explain it to me. He looked to his father, my BIL, who then did the mansplaining for him. I was so disappointed.
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If you were driving in New Jersey and you had an out of state license plate, bet your results would be different.
That’s probably the case in many states. Virginia is known around here to be brutal to OSS drivers. Not really related to privilege, more a money making proposition.
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Yes. OOS drivers are far less likely to contest tickets.
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FWIW, the first time I was pulled over in Washington I had out of state plates, and received a friendly warning.
As soon as I heard the names of the Naval aviators killed in the EA-18G Growler crash near Mt Rainier, I instantly thought, “Well, here we go”. Two women, giving their life in service to their country, no information on why the airplane crashed, but I knew the misogyny would immediately begin. I swear, if I even hear a hint of that from the pilots I know, even though I’m usually very thick-skinned, I’m going to rip their heads off.
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They seem like great pilots.
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That’s a fantastic story about them. The writer obviously knew them well.
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Male privilege? We need a new window. The window salesman would only come to the house when I was also at home. Women usually make home decisions and have veto power.
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