Posted on 12/21/2014 11:13:07 AM PST by Steelfish
Subway Manspreaders Told: Close Your Legs And Let Other People Ride Poster campaign will attempt to stop antisocial practice Doctors say crossing legs will not affect reproductive powers.
Amanda Holpuch Saturday 20 December 2014 Comments
As 2014 comes to an end, one thing New York commuters can expect in 2015 is an official city campaign against a growing problem: manspreading.
Manspreading is the act or practice typically male of spreading ones legs in a manner which prevents others from occupying nearby seats on the subway, commuter train or bus.
A Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) spokesman, Kevin Ortiz, described the practice thus: To, you know, extend their legs more than they need to in a manner that would take up more than one seat.
In January, the MTA will unveil ads calling for better subway manners. According to the New York Times, one such poster will bear the message: Dude Stop the Spread, Please.
Social media sites have magnified criticism of manspreading, as people have posted images on sites like Twitter and Tumblr in an effort to shame culprits and compel them to keep their legs together.
The epidemic has spread Boston transit police have posted photos of people taking up more than one seat on Twitter with messages such as: #MBTA etiquette; if you are already seated PLEASE do not occupy seat next to you with your feet. Thanks.
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I always help someone, if I can. Male or female, and race not a factor.
Recently I’ve had some physical damage that makes helping much difficult, and I find it remarkably difficult to refrain from offering help I’m not really capable of.
About a year ago, before being injured, I helped a young black woman with three small kids by changing a tire for her in the Walmart parking lot. Multiple men walked by without offering assistance, including a lot of young black men, who frankly would have been more up to it physically than I was.
Ruined a perfectly good dress shirt in the process, too. :)
Actually, there are still a few, but they are as scarce as unicorns. Those of us old enough to remember when men treated women as if they were special, revered as our wives and mothers, can only mourn their decline, to be replaced by the b@tches and "baby-mommas".
Really folks, there WAS a time in America when NOBODY had to go on TV and force three or four different men to take blood tests, so that some welfare breeder can find out who's their "baby-daddy".
Me too, but if they give me any attitude about it, I shut the door in their faces.
1960 seems to be the cut off point.
I never knew he had light coming from down there. Must be like the K-mart blue light or something.
If you live in some Dumbocrap armpit of a metropolis and have to mingle with the riff-raff on public transportation, my heart bleeds for you.
Probably, more public transportation riders should more importantly take a daily shower and use some deodorant.
Where is he going?
Will a cellphone even work on the subway?
you can always play games.
Don’t make me take my pants off!
LOL!
Right here.
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