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When there is such thing as having to combat men being able to sit how they want, you know society has hit the bottom.
by nkkollaw 8y ago
When there is such thing as having to combat men being able to sit how they want, you know society has hit the bottom.
- lawlessone 8y agoits fake
- nkkollaw 8y agoThe article is fake, "manspreading" is an actual thing. I was referring to that, not the article.
- KozmoNau7 8y agoHow do you know it's an actual thing? E: Not the "sitting with legs relatively wide, for comfort", but rather the version that gets complained about online, the one where people are deliberately blocking seats from other people.
- bogomipz 8y agoRide the train in NYC for any length of time and you are practically guaranteed to see it. The phrase entered popular lexicon years ago now in NYC, it's definitely not new. Search the Gothamist website it's well-worn meme by now. Other news sources as well as even the MTA themselves have commented on the phenomenon: https://www.npr.org/2014/11/23/366084646/mta-targets-man-spreading-and-other-subway-faux-pas https://www.npr.org/2014/11/23/366084646/mta-targets-man-spr... I think it't more of a gender neutral bad behavior thing in that it seems that people who do this will do it regardless of whether its a man or a woman sitting next to them.
- KozmoNau7 8y agoYes, the "manspreading" is certainly real, if you mean some people (mostly men) sitting in demonstrably relaxed or "macho" ways. That is not what I questioned. Though it is nowhere near as bad as some people online seem to claim. The extreme online vitriol about it certainly seems to be at least partially made up.
- bogomipz 8y ago>"Though it is nowhere near as bad as some people online seem to claim." The practice is most certainly pervasive in NYC. I would call that as bad as people claim. Most of the online documentation of the phenomenon is more behavior shaming though and not anything approaching "vitriolic", this ridiculous bit of theater being an exception of course.