Posted on 12/20/2014 12:14:03 PM PST by Second Amendment First
It is the bane of many female subway riders. It is a scourge tracked on blogs and on Twitter.
And it has a name almost as distasteful as the practice itself.
It is manspreading, the lay-it-all-out sitting style that more than a few men see as their inalienable underground right.
Now passengers who consider such inelegant male posture as infringing on their sensibilities — not to mention their share of subway space — have a new ally: the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Taking on manspreading for the first time, the authority is set to unveil public service ads that encourage men to share a little less of themselves in the city’s ever-crowded subways cars.
The targets of the campaign, those men who spread their legs wide, into a sort of V-shaped slouch, effectively occupying two, sometimes even three, seats are not hard to find. Whether they will heed the new ads is another question.
Riding the F train from Brooklyn to Manhattan on a recent afternoon, Fabio Panceiro, 20, was unapologetic about sitting with his legs spread apart.
“I’m not going to cross my legs like ladies do,” he said. “I’m going to sit how I want to sit.”
And what if Mr. Panceiro, an administrative assistant from Los Angeles, saw posters on the train asking him to close his legs? “I’d just laugh at the ad and hope that someone graffitis over it,” he said.
For Kelley Rae O’Donnell, an actress who confronts manspreaders and tweets photos of them, her solitary shaming campaign now has the high-powered help of the transportation authority, whose ads will be plastered inside subway cars.
“It drives me crazy,” she said of men who spread their legs. “I find myself glaring at them because it just seems so inconsiderate in this really crowded city.”
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Bridget Ellsworth, a 28-year-old music teacher, views manspreading as sexual harassment because some men engage in it near her even when the subway car is not packed.
So they complain about taking up space and then complain some more when space doesn't matter. Whiners.
I think it’s good to see men opening up to women.
Men bad. Women good.
They’re called “balls”, Bridgette. Perhaps I’ll start a campaign against fat women with enormous breasts and start measuring their physical dimensions on public transport.
Would that be ok, too Bridgette?
I thought not.
Now shut up and go make me a sammich.
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LOL!
First world “problems”.
She sounds like a first rate pervert.
“Now shut up and go make me a sammich.”
Are you channeling Laz today? LOL!
I recall a magazine cover with an EX president sitting that sau
And her shoes are ugly, too.
Notice she’s not on a 2:00 A.M. In Brooklyn on a Sat. Nite!
My that is just horrible. /s
Thank goodness I actually READ the article for once! At first I thought this was some sort of new thug display posturing - as in they were droppin’ trou and spreading their cheeks, LOL!
You know, like some red-arsed Baboon; only Baboons have more class. ;)
Ummm, obese people “manspread” regardless of their gender.
Does she harass the incredibly fat women who by default “manspread” where they are sitting?
The met-narrative is: victim, victimizer, savior/hero/champion.
Men victimizers, women victims, New York Times champion.
No charge this time.
A Scotsman wearing kilt never opens his legs like that.
that is meta-narrative.
How about Cheney’s magazine pics?
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