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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And he received the ******** OUT of life time from the Regimental Sergeant Major for this.
I’ll just settle in here. Spouse just had a sip of my beer, and her peti-faci was a couple of days ago. Merry, Merry.
This is about as nice as I can be. I’m fed up with this foolishness. Anybody tries to “measure” me while I’m on public transportation is going to get their teeth kicked in.
In a rational world these women would be mocked unmercifully until they broke down in tears and ran home to daddy who would then ask them what the hell they thought was going to happen.
Mom would have a quiet chat with her phenomenally misguided girl on the biological differences between men and women. She’d also tell her little girl that if she ever embarrased the family that way again she would get the skin slapped off her smarmy face.
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It’s awkward for men to scrunch up. The boys need room.
LOL! Thanks, I had forgotten that classic!
Someone, someday, is going to yank that “smart” phone out of Kelley the moonbat’s bony hands and shove it up her smelly Obama.
Its true. This dingbat doesn’t know a damned thing about men’s anatomy.
For a good many of us is pretty uncomfortable sitting with crossed legs.
Margery Eagen thought that picture of Bill Clinton attractive.
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