[Paladin2]

Is sitting like this:

a problem?

[Jumper]

Maybe it is those oh so tight metrosexual pants that have no space for a man’s testicals, thus they have to relieve the pressure imposed on their manhood by the previous acts of hiding their masculinity.... To close their legs would literally make them the truest of metrosexual inhabinents of the city.

[uncitizen]

Wait and see how many man cross their legs on the subway tomorrow. They wouldn’t want to be accused of being patriarchal...whatever...

[doorgunner69]

W. T. F. ???

[sport]

If you say so.

[Amari1]

On the contrary - I think that women who sit with their legs crossed are suppressing their sexuality and submitting to the puritanical idealizations of our repressive white male, Judeo-Christian dominated society (or something along those lines). So all you women out there - loosen up those thighs and let your freak flags fly!

[Lazamataz]

“Time” magazine is 100% insane.

[School of Rational Thought]

“manifestation of patriarchal privilege”

BS, it is just common rudeness

[TalBlack]

The patriarchy is dead as far as I know. However when the culture changed THAT left no rules for men as a group. Now men are individuals who mostly are making it up as they go. It's like herding cats.

[SaxxonWoods]

We are?

OK, I’m fine with that.

**** off, TIME.

[vetvetdoug]

I noticed that Time Magazine having a biased left wing shift in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s and has only got worse since. When writing term papers in high school and college, I began to notice that Newsweek, Time, and US News and World Report seem to all have the same articles, same slant, same bias, and very little difference between the three of them. It is no wonder they are all failed magazines as their readership is compromised of liberals that don't reflect the majority of the population.

[nomad]

Next thing you know, they`ll want us to sit to pee.

[the OlLine Rebel]

OK, several comments.

First, to get my Grammar NAZI out of the way. There is NO such usage as “angering” as used here. Along with the hated “concerning” and “worrying”.

Second, despite the title, it is not clearly about CROSSING legs as closing. Which is the polite thing to do, not showing yourself pofligate, AND keeping out of the way of others’ paths and space, not thoughtlessly taking up space.

Even if it is about crossing, that is no big deal. My dad crossed legs plenty, helps keep comfortable while out of the way.

But as far as it being sexist, or dominant, I think that is a bunch of nonsense. It’s just thoughtlessness, probably not trained to be gentlemen. As a woman I am never thinking about men, “you are hating women or threatening me” because he shows himself.

[Hot Tabasco]

It’s hard to scratch an itch with your legs crossed.....

[Ditter]

..........mmmmmmmmm... reminds me of a joke.......:)

[Reddy]

I think men who cross their legs seem feminine. Putting one ankle on a knee isn’t as bad, but men crossing their thighs is gross. It weirds me out. JMO

[equaviator]

So, even if I were to start sitting on the toilet to piss, I should also cross my legs?

[husky ed]

I take life lessons from this man.

Not some limp wristed slack jawed Eastcoast pansy that prances around his house in his Mom's underwear.

Ed

[jughandle]

The same guy who wants men to pee sitting down?

[Fzob]

Once again the line between satire and a real story is blurred.