[Cats Pajamas]

Manspreading

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Example of manspreading on the Stockholm Metro Manspreading, or man-sitting, is the practice of sitting in public transport with legs wide apart, thereby covering more than one seat. Both this posture and usage of the term "manspreading" have caused some internet criticism, and debates in the USA, UK, Turkey, and Canada.[3][4] The term first appeared in public debate when a feminist anti-manspreading campaign was started on the social media website Tumblr in 2013.[citation needed] The Oxford English Dictionary added it as a word in August 2015.

Historical Perspective

Although the term is 21st Century neologism, the concern about seating posture impeding space availability for others is hardly new.

The earliest recorded instance of public commentary on this appears to arise from the "Omnibus Laws" of 19th Century London[13]—in respect of early horse-drawn buses, and intended to make travel more enjoyable—which included: "Law 5 – Sit with your limbs straight, and do not with your legs describe an angle of 45, thereby occupying the room of two persons"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manspreading

[georgiegirl]

This is the first picture of Cruz I ever saw where he looks pretty.

[MagUSNRET]

Are we entirely sure that DC and COngress isnt just one big bath-house foam party?? (thats rhetorical!)

[Bob434]

Yay- another ‘Cruz is aN A$@#$hole’ thread- this time he’s apparently an A$##$hole for holding his leg across his knee and sitting with a friend-

another quality thread on FR-

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

If one of you could produce a photograph with all four of the boys seated together, that would be real fun, if not newsworthy.

[OwenKellogg]

[x]

Yes! Why can’t we go back to the old days when politicians understood that sitting on couches with other males meant that they were homosexuals and not qualified for public office?

[SamAdams76]

I ride the trains in New York all the time and there is all this hoopla about "man-spreading" where a man spreads his legs and takes up more than one seat.

I rarely ever see that. What I do see a lot though is "purse occupying."

This is the practice of a woman placing her oversized purse or large hand bag in the seat next to her. This especially happens on the Metro North commuter trains where women habitually fill up the seat next to them with their purses, coats, umbrellas and whatnot while the men usually stash their bags in the overheads, leaving the seat next to them open. I almost never see a woman put anything in the overhead. When she is shamed into giving up the empty seat, she will take her stuff and transfer it to her lap or on the floor in front of her (and will usually not be happy about it at all).

[x]

You do realize all this is a function of how much homosexuality has become a part of our world.

You can google pictures of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Monkees in the 1960s on sofas or couches all sitting what we'd consider creepily close to each other and not really thinking anything of it.

[The Continental Op]

I’ll give Cruz for one thing (and that will be it forever). I always thought his cowboy boots were a phony prop for the election. He’s wearing them way back then, though. That said:

GO TRUMP!!

[Albion Wilde]

This is biological. When the testes become overheated too frequently, male fertility declines. The practice of wearing tighty whities and tight jeans is not helping, either. Men need to give the boyz some air.

[cynwoody]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manspreading

And look at those hands!

[cynwoody]

The guy sitting with Cruz is David K. Panton, Cruz's debate partner and roommate at Princeton and Harvard.

“When I was elected as president of the Harvard Law Review [!!], my first call was not to my parents or family members, but to Ted, who at the time was clerking for Judge Michael Luttig, prior to his clerkship on the Supreme Court, as the first Hispanic clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist,” Panton said.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Only a limp-waisted lisping sodomite would post something so stupid