Yes, my friend just scruffed her, put her on her lap and clipped while she talked about something unrelated and that was it. Princess tried to object but was met with little attention to her objections. Same happened with getting Prince used to being picked up. He'd put up a fight with me, then let my friend pick him up with hardly any objection. It took both Prince and me getting sick from all the stairs-climbing (7 floors up and down once or twice a day), for me to say "I've had it. I'm picking you up now whatever it takes and that's it", and he didn't scratch me. Nowadays, because he doesn't like being picked up much, he goes into the elevator of his own will when I call him and he rides it perfectly, like a human. And lately he's even ok with me picking him up when he's sleepy and bringing him to bed.
The thing is, except for Prince (who I assume was a house cat at some point in his previous life) my cats have the logic of the street: if you don't like something, you're supposed to hiss at it and scratch it, or bite it. I have a stray in the street that sits on my lap for hours, wrapped in a fleece blanket. When my legs go numb and I tell her she must get off, she hisses at me. It's her way of saying "Don'wanna!" LOL I never had cats raised in a home, so I don't know if other cats also scratch you when they don't like something you do...