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Subway Manspreaders Told: Close Your Legs And Let Other People Ride
Guardian (UK) ^
| December 20, 2012
| Amanda Holpuch
Posted on 12/21/2014 11:13:07 AM PST by Steelfish
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To: livius
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. :)
To: noiseman
Remember when there WERE ladies? 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".
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posted on
12/21/2014 12:25:40 PM PST
by
Kenton
To: Gator113
I also continue to open doors for ladies.....knowing full well that it pi$$es off some of them. ;>) Me too, but if they give me any attitude about it, I shut the door in their faces.
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posted on
12/21/2014 12:27:30 PM PST
by
Kenton
To: noiseman
1960 seems to be the cut off point.
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posted on
12/21/2014 12:28:16 PM PST
by
Little Bill
(EVICT Queen Jean)
To: dfwgator
I never knew he had light coming from down there. Must be like the K-mart blue light or something.
To: Steelfish
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.
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posted on
12/21/2014 1:31:14 PM PST
by
867V309
(Boehner is the new Pelosi)
To: Steelfish
First world problems. Is this racist??? According to Brittney Cooper asking people to stop taking up two seats is racist.
"On Friday, I was on the train to New York to do a teach-in on Ferguson at NYU. Beats headphones on, lost in thought, peering out the window, I suddenly saw a white hand shoving my work carry-on toward me. Startled, I looked up to see the hand belonged to a white guy, who was haphazardly handling my open bag, with my laptop perched just inside to make space for himself on the seat next to me."
"Buoyed by his own entitlement, his own sense of white male somebodiness, this passenger never even considered that he might simply try harder to get my attention before putting his hands on my stuff. His own need to control space, his own sense of entitlement to move anything in his way even if it held something of value to another person, his belief that he had the right to do whatever he needed to do to make the environment conform to his will are all hallmarks of white privilege." -Brinney Cooper, Salon Magazine
To: Steelfish
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posted on
12/21/2014 1:48:50 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
Probably, more public transportation riders should more importantly take a daily shower and use some deodorant.
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posted on
12/21/2014 3:58:57 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
12/21/2014 4:07:38 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: Chickensoup
Will a cellphone even work on the subway?
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posted on
12/21/2014 5:16:47 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
you can always play games.
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posted on
12/21/2014 5:23:06 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: dfwgator
Don’t make me take my pants off!
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posted on
12/21/2014 7:32:37 PM PST
by
BBell
(breathe easy obey the law)
To: PistolPaknMama
To: Steelfish
I got your "manspreading."
Right here.
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posted on
02/01/2015 1:19:47 PM PST
by
Interesting Times
(WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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