Many insist this is not normal behavior.
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LOL! Some of the comments are priceless.
Clearly, some people have way too much time on their hands.
Men need more air down there....
You never see Obama doing the MANSPREAD. That’s because he has no balls.
My johnson needs the room.
There’s a guy at work who spraddles so far that his legs hang over the sides of his chair. That’s because his belly is so big it looks like he’s hauling triplets.
He fancies himself a fine figure of manhood. The ladies disagree.
Lady, we have “junk” down there that is not comfortably compressed. It gets hot & sweaty down there, too. Any opportunity to relax & cool off a bit is normal.
Note that it is also the reason men don’t often cross their legs like women.
However, this is not justification to hog the limited space in crowded seating.
I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK!
Wide stance is to what they refer?!
Always for me, it’s comfortable and more importantly provides a stable platform to support upper armament both God given and supplemental. Repel all attackers always.
Most men don’t spread wider than their shoulders, so actually they’re not taking up any more room than their upper body takes.
It’s the people who can’t fully cross their legs higher up and then their leg goes beyond their shoulder space. They will usually have a foot invading your space.
Men are made different and this lady needs to shut up. She has a bold and rude personality taking up too much space. Gad! Neurotic, controlling, hall-monitor of a woman!
Oh no, more Fem-Nazi stuff? *Whew* well at least those evil men didn’t try to rape her not that it matters because she’ll probably say they did anyway.
Good grief, if you are standing, you spread your feet about the width of shoulders parallel to the train’s travel direction...for BALANCE. You fall over on the lady standing beside you when the train starts or stops, then you will really get an earful!
I don’t drive, so I use public transportation regularly. I can tell you that taking up more than one seat is not just the X result of “man splay.” I’ve seen women with 20 packages all spread out over 2 or more seats, parents with a gaggle of kids and strollers the size of condominiums, people with suitcases and those shopping carts on wheels blocking seats. These are the ones who always take over the front seats even though they are supposed to be reserved for the elderly and disabled. Heaven help you if you ask to sit down. These people won’t move themselves or their belongings for anyone and they get downright belligerent if you ask. I walk with a cane and it’s a struggle to keep my balance when the bus is in motion, but people just don’t care. It’s every man/woman for him/herself.
It’s the attitude nowadays, especially among the free stuff crowd. Kindness and courtesy toward others have been replaced by selfishness and thoughtlessness. “I got mine and I don’t care about you.”
First, as a rider of ‘public transportation’ since 1993, when I wrecked my ‘money hole car’, I believe I can make the following observations, based on riding that transit in NY, OR, and LA (y’allsville, not Los Angeles):
1. the actual size of the seat has declined with each new bus design, in the city purchaser’s eyes to get more people on each vehicle, eeither light rail or bus.
2. there has never been actual measurements for the broadening of the glutemus maximus of the women who have been riding the same bus and light rail, and who are, ahem, forced, to take public transit, because they cannot afford a vehicle, yet can afford all those bags of empty calories they drag on the bus with them after shopping at Wal-Mart and the like, and expect to place on the seat next to them, because ‘gawd forbod’ they have to bend over to pick them up.
3. In the design of those seat, and the women who flow over them, they expect EVERYBODY to sit like Forrest Gump! To the lady who decided to raise this ruckus:
I got three things that you ain’t never gonna have, nor by writing this, ever gonna git, and the shrinking size of those seats, and the broadening of those females i have watched for all those years, makes it downright difficult, cramped, and I dare say, an invasion of my ‘personal space’!
Give the guys an aspirin.
Ann Landers suggested that for women to help them keep there’s legs together.
(...jeez...I’m giving away my age...)
A good cartoon would be the 8-seat bench on a subway taken up by four people: 2 fat women and 2 men in the macho pose, each taking up 2 seats.
There also used to be the broadsheet spreaders, holding out the New York Times at its full breadth. No one reads the paper anymore, thank goodness.
Imagine the fracas if a guy was on a subway measuring and commenting on the width of women’s behinds?
The woman is a reprehensible pervert who’s actions equate sexual harassment. She deserves an appropriate response for acting out on her sick, freakish fetishes.
Men should pull together as a group with a united response, something along the lines of putting women back in their box, back in their place, subordinate.
Every time we hear another example of misandry, we should respond with something terrifying to them to just shut them up. PERIOD. Something that will result in a lessening of their position in society...to see if they like it.
A good offense may be the best defense for men. Time for us to assert some muscle, culturally. See if they wanna play rough. But we must hang together as a group.
I’d give her something she could measure.