Manspreading Is Not An Issue And Bored Women Need To Stop Trying To Make It One

_Baku · 2015-01-22T15:03:38+00:00

Lol @ at this pic from the comments:

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KngpinOfColonProduce · 2015-01-22T19:16:56+00:00

Beautiful comment:

After this epidemic came to light, I decided to stand on the subway for fear that someone might have a camera pointed at me just waiting for me to mess up. Then I thought, "What else could I possibly be doing wrong?" Was I "manhovering"? Those seated were face to face with the faint smell of Axe body spray emanating from my junk...and they all had phones just begging to Tweet.

Soon thereafter I decided to stick to the sidewalk, above ground where it's sunny and safe. But then I read about "sidewalkspreading." Immediately I wondered how my broad shoulders might be threatening, even misogynistic. I tried hugging the walls of buildings like Spider-man, or a kid clinging to the carpeted walls of Skatetown USA.

"Be invisible," I whispered to myself.

Scaling the walls of Arch Street, I was smacked in the face with a glass door at the Wawa. "How dare you!?" yelled a woman walking a dog in a raincoat and four little shoes...I was "manblocking"! I tried to get home as quickly as possible.

Climbing a fire escape, I leaped from roof-to-roof across Chinatown and beyond. Those in the streets pointed and stared, filming and Tumblring, "Look! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, he's MANFLEEING!" And manflee I did!

Sliding down a storm drain behind my small house, I "manbroke" into my rear window, "manstumbling" down my staircase where I "manhid" with my "mancat." Six weeks later, unshaven and living off "manhoarded" canned tuna, I'm still "manwondering" how my genitals might make this world grieve.

Tedesche · 2015-01-22T16:09:03+00:00

I've lived in NYC and taken the subway for about ten years now, and I've had a problem with some asshat refusing to close his legs/make room for me to sit only a couple times. It's not that there aren't assholes who do this, and plenty of men do spread their legs out, but most will make room if you indicate you want to sit down. It's not that the problem doesn't exist at all, but it's nowhere near the epidemic that it's being made out to be—certainly not one that needs an expensive ad campaign to correct. I mainly just object to it being called "manspreading," as I find it an offensive generalization. How's about we start a campaign against "bitchbagging"—women who smack people with their oversized bags on the train.

It's really disturbing how radical feminists occupy the main positions of power within the Feminist movement these days. That cause has been completely hijacked, to the detriment of women as well as men.

MasZakrY · 2015-01-22T14:54:00+00:00

Biggest problem in the universe, amiright?

MrNaked · 2015-01-22T13:41:00+00:00

I just want to say, that I like to have my legs apart so I can give my balls freedom. Not always comfortable to have your legs together and squishing your nuts. These kind of woman who think it is an issue should be more understanding.

Your_Bacon_Counselor · 2015-01-22T15:10:49+00:00

Well. Perhaps seating is designed for women, by women, and the real gender issue is that mens needs are not considered when public transportation is built. I think transport officials have some explaining to do!

builder1402 · 2015-01-22T17:21:17+00:00

When I ride the subway, the number of women occupying multiple seats with their bags and parcels is far greater than the number of men doing likewise with their bodies. To make matters worse, when I've suggested that a woman move or hold their bags instead, I am frequently mocked or ignored. This is a classic case of "the pot calling the kettle black".

2015-01-22T17:24:52+00:00

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Occams_Shiv · 2015-01-22T21:06:18+00:00

I've been riding the subway in NYC since this nonsense began, (and for 15 years before it,) and I'm convinced it's a non-problem, caused by perspective, and a misunderstanding of anatomy, enabled and amplified by the very wide angle lenses in all cellphone cameras.

Allow me to explain:

Most men have a shoulder width about 4 to 6 inches wider than their hips. That means when seated, we all can splay our legs out 2" - 3" on each side, and still be within our own shoulder width. We naturally, and I think correctly, assume that anything within the width of our shoulders can be safely thought of as our "personal space." After all, no one else is going to sit there.

We also need to keep our feet at least shoulder width apart to have a stable base when the train jerks. (Try keeping your legs tight together on any MTA train and see if you don't pall over sideways when the train starts.)

So to begin with, our feet and knees are wider than our hips, but still inside our own shoulder width. Add to that the fact that perspective which makes objects farther away appear smaller than those that are close, and it looks like out knees are spread wider than either our hips or shoulders.

Then, take a picture of this perfectly ordinary seated person with a micro-camera sporting an extreme wide-angle lens, which magnifies perspective significantly.

Add an agenda, coupled with a lack of understanding of human anatomy, 3D geometry, or apparently, empathy, and you have the perfect recipe for a fake problem.

a "fake-idemic" if you will.

I think mens genitals are actually pretty irrelevant to the mechanics of the situation, but feminists love to attack anyhting that men do "just because you have a penis" which is probably what attracted them to try and shame the perfectly normal way that all men sit, in the first place.

me_brewsta · 2015-01-22T19:02:17+00:00

What kind of society are we building that considers things like this to be issues? Fuck.

cleofisrandolph1 · 2015-01-22T21:15:55+00:00

I asked a woman to move her bag, HER BAG, on the bus so i could sit down, and she said no. keep in mind this was a stop in front of a school with about 50-75 kids trying to get on the bus. it was like she was insulted I wanted her to hold her bag. I've never seen a guy do something like this or if they did, if a lot of people were getting on they would move.

brzcory · 2015-01-22T16:16:15+00:00

Have they ever thought about asking to use the blocked seat?

"Hey, you mind if I sit here mate?" Is generally all it would take.

Swiggy · 2015-01-22T16:18:54+00:00

Just look at that man so exhausted that he falls asleep on the train, you can just feel the privilege and aggression.

Katejaysee · 2015-01-22T21:45:03+00:00

Nice ladies. Good to see we have our priorities in check. I didn't care about equal pay anyway....

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2015-01-23T00:23:53+00:00

I really hope they make this their main issue for 2015.

Last year was bad for feminists with shirtgate, ban bossy, the UVA nonsense, and everything else. Let's see if they can keep the downward spiral going.

apullin · 2015-01-22T19:53:53+00:00

It's not boredom, I don't think.

It is the "mechanism of invalidation", as described in Dr. Jay Carter's book, Nasty People. The summary version is: people try to harm the self esteem of others in an attempt to increase their own self esteem.

Everyone should buy that book. It's cheap, and a short, easy read. Every year, I buy 10 copies, and hand them out to people I know who have a real problem with "invalidation".

2015-01-22T22:27:51+00:00

Whoosh!

McFeely_Smackup · 2015-01-22T23:22:02+00:00

Here's a thought: If you see some man (or woman) sitting too comfortably, or taking up seating space you wish to occupy...how about you put on your big girl pants and TALK to that person? You know, interact with another human being as if you were both rational adults?

Or you could take pictures of the person you never even informed was inconveniencing you slightly, and run to the internet and whine like a petulant child.

McFeely_Smackup · 2015-01-22T23:27:52+00:00

Just for the record, I spent last weekend go kart racing with my brother-in-law and the seat was molded to fit the driver tightly...forcing my legs together. After a few races my testicles ached like I'd been punched in them.

Testicles are a real thing ladies. I won't tell you what to do with your breasts if you don't tell me what to do with my nuts.

werdd · 2015-01-23T04:38:39+00:00

I never "manspreaded" before this stuff became news but now I make it a point to do so in protest.

wildbillnj1975 · 2015-02-01T05:11:47+00:00

At the risk of advertising unimpressive genitalia, my legs don't spread because of what's between them. They spread simply because they're long.

They spread because I'm 6'2" and most seats for public use are designed for "average" height people, 5'5" - 5'10".

All y'all go ahead and adjust your comfy desk chairs about 6" shorter than usual, so that your knees are way higher than your hips. You will find the same thing that I do - you can spread your feet to angle your knees inward, but that's uncomfortable (and takes up floor space). Or you can allow your knees to do what they naturally do (due to gravity) - flop wide open. Or you can stress your leg muscles to keep your feet AND knees together, which gets extremely uncomfortable and tiring.

On occasion (e.g. movie theater, airplane, stock car race) I have gone so far as to remove my belt and BUCKLE my knees closer together because I knew I could never HOLD them together for the duration of the event.

Make subway seats a few inches higher, and tall fellas won't have any problem keeping their legs in front of them (unless they're assholes). But then the shorter people's legs won't reach the floor and we'll have to hear about bias against them...

Misogynist-bydefault · 2015-01-22T14:59:19+00:00

I NEED MY LEG ROOM UNLESS YOU WANT ME SHAKING MY LEGS AND SCRATCHING MY NUTS AS I WALK.

Then they would say, "look at that privilege. Hes allowed to touch him self near children....WAIT HES A PEDO. Privilege is in our court now! Bwhahaha"

Just because balls

Miathermopolis · 2015-01-23T01:08:13+00:00

Jeeesus christ what a ridiculous sack of shit. I can't believe this is a thing!

Like really how much of a loser are you that you can't just ask someone to move?

Grow up god damn. fuckin shit this pissed me off, ugh.

Eulabeia · 2015-01-22T17:39:03+00:00

Someone should put up posters about how fat women take up too much space on public transit as a riposte.

Northstar-center · 2015-01-23T00:18:48+00:00

Lol. Here's what I do. I move her shopping bag myself. I pick it up and put it on the floor next to her and then I sit down. Moving her shit isn't assault. Touching her is. So I let her get loud and push me then I stand and scream and make a scene that she's assaulting me. I pull my phone and start recording and screaming assault! Assault! She usually shuts the fuck up cause I escalate so fast. Then while she's stunned I sit down. The guys look amused. The women are confused as fuck. Always easy. Then I calmy browse my phone and act like nothing happened. Shits awesome.

lowsodiummonkey · 2015-01-23T16:22:25+00:00

This is an issue? And we wonder why there are people out there who want to destroy America and cut people's heads off.

VenutianFuture · 2015-01-22T13:34:19+00:00

I dont get it. Is this decrying homeless people using public transport or something?

2015-01-22T16:16:32+00:00

But breastfeeding mothers in public is a sacred right!

homelessscootaloo · 2015-01-22T15:28:36+00:00

This is the first I've heard of this gayness.

Manspreading Is Not An Issue And Bored Women Need To Stop Trying To Make It One

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Title	Manspreading Is Not An Issue And Bored Women Need To Stop Trying To Make It One
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Date	January 22, 2015 12:27 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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