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Witness the absurd, offensive, ludicrous spectacle of inanity and stupidity currently surrounding the New York subway: a campaign to stop men sitting comfortably on public transport. We “manspread,” apparently, which observers have interpreted as “sit in such a way as not to painfully crush the testicles or snake” but which feminists insist is an expression of patriarchal authority. You could not, as British newspaper columnists like to say, make this stuff up.http://web.test.breitbart.com/london/2014/12/22/what-is-manspreading-and-why-are-people-angry-about-it/
One heroic social justice warrior took to the subway for a whole weekend, sitting as she imagines men do on the way to work. I have never seen a man sit quite as absurdly as she suggests, perhaps because I do not frequent public transport. But even in the dark bars of the London suburbs I trawled as a late teen looking for companionship, filled with desperate masculinity, I never saw such a comically absurd picture as this brave social justice warrior paints.
The manspreading complaint is couched as a response to “rudeness” by men, but it is no such thing: it is pathetic feminist pipsqueakery, the last dying gasp of a movement with nothing to win and nothing to say, determined to abuse and antagonise the male love at all costs and for whatever perceived or outright imaginary infraction it can conjure from the vicissitudes of everyday life. It is offensively trivial, and those associated with it ought to be ashamed.
You may not know the term "manspreader," but if you've ever taken public transit, you most certainly know what it describes. For the uninitiated, manspreading is not the slight parting of the legs which may be required for men by biology, but the ensconcing of oneself in widespread, let-it-all-hang-out fashion. In its extremes, the manspread (so named because, quite simply, men do it far more frequently) takes up scores of valuable seat space.http://www.ravishly.com/2014/12/30/manspreading-manspreaders-public-transit-mens-rights-activists
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From weight to body positioning, those who want to be considered feminine have long been encouraged to take up as little space as possible. In the book What Every Body in Saying, author Joe Navarro discusses what he calls "splaying behavior." While on a couch or chair in your own home, he says, splaying is a sign of comfort. However it's also a non-verbal way of dominating your environment.
When defenders of the ball-sprawl feel their rights are infringed upon, I wonder if they have ever been exposed to the rules women have been subjected to about leg placement. Entire etiquette lessons are devoted to the virtuousness of the ankle cross and the vulgarity of the "European leg cross." A woman can be labeled a whore simply by the positioning of her legs. In this sense, manspreading is a manifestation of gendered territorial entitlement; it taps into, if you will, the male privilege of taking up physical space.