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I was feeling masochistic so I read the "manspreading" article (having first googled "manspreading", a term I hadn't heard before and wish I hadn't now). Havin

• type0 10y ago
  > I was feeling masochistic so I read the "manspreading" I thought it meant some social science term for disproportional migration to other countries by men. I'm not sure if feminists claiming "manspreading" as patriarchal phenomenon are deliberately disingenuous or just plain stupid and uneducated. Being concerned with your reproductive health is a human right, men also have this right (if we would assume that men and women are equal). Spermatogenesis is dependent on male gonads to be about 2 centigrades below the core body temp; too high temperature reduces both quantity and quality of the sperm (that's the whole reason why scrotum is outside the body), I honestly thought even kids knew this. I would say that from scientific perspective I'm much more concerned with "boobspreading" because it solely represents matriarchal oppression of men without serving any physiological function.
  • mjrbrennan 10y ago
    The amount of time, effort, and brain cycles going towards talking about such an irrelevant "issue" as manspreading is mindboggling. It's enough energy to power a small country. That article reads like it was written by an insane person. Everyone takes up extra space on the train either by spreading out, putting their bags beside them, or being obese. You know what a sane person does instead of writing ridiculous articles? "Excuse me can I please sit there?"