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Only radical nutjobs see this is as a gender discrimination,sexual harassment, or male privilege issue.
The rest of us would just like people to stop being jerks who waste valuable space on crowded trains.
Except it clearly is.
In NYC women are permitted to go topless in public. Argument being that if men can do it, women should be able to as well. A law saying "women should not..." would clearly be sexist.
So this fine in LA "men should not..." is also sexist.
So "manspreading" is worthy of legal action for "taking up space" but women that take up space with their ginormous handbags and shopping bags are okay?? Yeah, makes tons of sense.
Men don't shop?
I ride the commuter rail in New York and will tell you men are MUCH worse about spreading out their briefcases, backpacks, and bags. And when I say "excuse me " to ask them to move stuff from a three seater they've taken over with their stuff, I often get eye rolls and heavy sighs, like they deserve all that extra space.
It's not so much who shops, it is how people carry bags after shopping. Women are much more likely to use shoulder bags than men. Men almost never cross their legs (most cannot physically do it), so they can carry bags on their laps. Women who are going to be more anatomically comfortable crossing their legs cannot put bags on their laps without sacrificing that comfort.
My problem with the whole "spreading" thing is that people use it to reduce other people to caricatures of sexism. I'm 5' tall with legs the length of someone 4'6" (varus deformity). My legs physically cannot fit when I sit normally in a public transit chair (or airplane seat) nor can I sit cross-legged at all, meanwhile dangling my legs result in my legs falling asleep (as well as excruciating pain later). So I put my knees in the gaps between the seats.
That would make me a sexist manspreader, because there is no consideration in that terminology for the possibility that I cannot physically sit in a chair the "normal" way.
Maybe CA should address their illegal alien problem if they need more space on their public transport.
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