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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
>>> Now shut up and go make me a sammich. <<<
And while you’re at it; grab me a beer. :-)
Orrrrr a woman with a purse the size of a weekend carry on piece of luggage ......plopped in the seat next to her........ :o)
I've suffered through the LTAWWWY (Let's Talk About What's Wrong With You) sermon for ages. I've heard it all from many different women, and you're not even in the top 10 sermonizers.
It's a reflex with me now, I can tune out a harpy like you in under a second.
Same with the YGBYW (You're Guilty Because You're White) speech. Heard it so many times it just rolls right off.
Yep. Or a laptop and purse bigger than what I humped back in the day, headphones on oblivious to all around her. God forbid it’s a fat black university type in her way to a Ferguson “teach in”. Ask her to take up the single seat she paid for and you’re automatically a racist.
I was thinking along those same lines.
That is one pale woman.
When Bridget was young, the neighborhood kids tried to use her as a pipe cleaner.
When we in our own cars they can't be correcting our behavior every single second. That's no fun.
Why hadn't we heard of this "bane" & "scourge" before today? I mean, public transit has been around for a hundred years.
And I thought women no longer felt constrained by antiquated victorian sensibilities to keep their own legs clamped shut in public... don't tell me they still do?
Esquire, DEC 2000
17 A Scotsman wearing kilt never opens his legs like that.
11/29/2004 Crown Jewels on Display
NSFW - image link below
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In this picture that's caused quite a sensation in England, Lt. Col. Simon West reveals exactly what's beneath his kilt during a group photograph with the Queen. But is the picture real? Apparently so. According to articles in a variety of British papers, the accidental exposure was witnessed by hundreds of people. It happened on Nov. 9 as the Queen posed with the 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. This assumes, of course, that the exposure was accidental. Lt. Col West insists that it was. All the papers seem to be running a censored version of the picture, but Snopes has posted what looks like the original version (click the image on the right for the uncensored, nsfw version). They say it's status is undetermined, but it looks legitimate to me. The version that ran in the papers seems too tame to have caused such a fuss.
Yes this plunge in gasoline prices is causing a lot of consternation among statists.
Us peons are out spewing evil carbon like it’s 1999....
Get me a beer while you’re at it, in the nicest possible way of course.
Some of us just have a bigger johnson. Just sayin’.
We don’t have any beer would you like a cup of Hibiscus tea?
Pffft, yeah...dead career walking, or may the career that never was.
Some no name bimbo trying to get off the casting couch.
There’s a liquor store right up the street. You should be back in ten minutes or so and the game is about to start. You can grab my dry cleaning on the way back.
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Y’all play nice now.
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