About a year ago feminists -- apparently having nothing better to do -- started whining about "manspreading." Nevermind trivialities like male genital mutilation or fathers not being able to see their children; of far greater concern to these oppressed damsels was the sin of men sitting comfortably on public transport.

Bizarrely, the women who began the campaign claimed that manspreading is a "microaggression" against the fairer sex and a means by which men assert "patriarchal dominance." Even more bizarrely, the patriarchal transport authorities took their theories seriously and spent $100,000 dollars of tax payer money on an anti-manspreading campaign in New York.

Since that time, police have been using the manspreading epidemic as a pretext to arrest inner city youth. Who needs stop and frisk when you have feminism?

MRA's and other non-insane people pointed out that this is simply how men sit, and that harassing them for spreading their legs on public transport would be akin to harassing women for having larger breasts and buttocks. They also pointed out that 99% of the creep shot photos posted online by feminists were of men sitting alone; when women sit down next to these patriarchal beasts they actually try to make as much as room as possible, even at the expense of their own comfort (and sometimes, testicles).

Two scientists have now debunked the feminist theory of manspreading, though it beggars belief that it required such extensive analysis in the first place.

Authors Ash Bennington and Mark Skinner wrote: “Our new analysis suggests that manspreading is something men do to adjust for their body proportions — especially their high shoulder to hip ratio — and not an act of transgression against their fellow passengers.”

They argued: “If a man sits on the subway with his knees together, and other passengers crowd in closely on both sides, then his torso likely won't fit on the top half of the seat if his knees are positioned less than shoulder width apart."

The final set of data looked at Kodak’s Ergonomic design studywhich found “a seated man’s knees extend forward much farther than a seated woman’s knees do.”

They used this to suggest that men’s knees can extend out as much as 4.3 inches longer than a seated woman’s would and he can reduce this distance by adjusting his legs outwards by 30 degrees.

How have feminists responded? Not well. Here is one feminist from the Telegraph, who laments that men are using that strange patriarchal sciencey thing to undercut her feelingz.

In this scenario the man is honourably trying to “avoid collisions in the aisles on crowded trains” – conveniently forgetting that by doing so he is colliding with the woman inevitably crossing her legs next to him.

As impressive as it is that so many studies relate to manspreading, it does still look like it isn’t a natural condition that affects only one half of our human species – it’s a societal habit otherwise known as chauvinism. [congratulations to the author for remaining oblivious to the fact that feminists, not men, are the chauvinist parties in this scenario]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/manspreading-when-men-use-science-to-excuse-chauvinism/

Chauvinism:

: an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex; also : behavior expressive of such an attitude

Another female chauvinist/feminist over at the NY Daily News is equally perturbed by this strange sciencey stuff, and in this case actually uses the word "science-y."

A new “science-y” report researched and written by men claims men spread out on public transit because of their bodies’ proportions — so the dude taking up three seats on the subway is acting on his biology, not his bro privilege.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-mansplains-manspreading-science-article-1.2498986

Is is just me or do feminists these days have the mental age of teenage girls? And how in the world are these ladies being hired by major news publications? Their grasp of basic logic and their overall tone is straight out of Teen Vogue.

Edit: few words