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If you "manspread" on the subway in Los Angeles, you could be $75 poorer after your ride.
The Los Angeles Metro has announced it will be fining passengers who insist on being rude to other passengers, and who fail to follow a Los Angeles Metro code of conduct called "Metro Manners."
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But Los Angeles says it's also taking on the "epidemic" of "manspreading," or the tendency of men riding public transportation to sit with their legs spread apart, taking up more than their fair share of seating. LA appears to believe manspreading is a space problem, but radical feminists have been after manspreaders for years, in New York, Boston, Chicago and on the West Coast, for a behavior they believe results from "toxic masculinity" and a male need to project status, particularly against women.
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.
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.
Blatant sexism. Do they not realize there is a very valid physical reason for sitting like this?
men and women are, on average, anatomically different; men's legs and hips don't work the same way as women's legs and hips (not to mention genitalia), and crossing legs or pushing knees together is ill-advised
if I am forced to take public transport, I'll sit comfortably so long as I'm not next to someone, and yes this does involve a 1.3x to 1.5x on NDT's formula (watch the video above)
if I have to sit next to someone I generally take only as much room as is created by two imaginary lines extending out from the left and right extents of my chair (and I'd expect those on either side of me to do the same) -- it's unnatural and uncomfortable but sitting next to people on small seats sucks, what are you gonna do?
Last edited by Nepenthe; 08-26-2017 at 10:33 PM..
Reason: added 'genitalia' bit
men and women are, on average, anatomically different; men's legs and hips don't work the same way as women's legs and hips (not to mention genitalia), and crossing legs or pushing knees together is ill-advised
if I am forced to take public transport, I'll sit comfortably so long as I'm not next to someone, and yes this does involve a 1.3x to 1.5x on NDT's formula (watch the video above)
if I have to sit next to someone I generally take only as much room as is created by two imaginary lines extending out from the left and right extents of my chair (and I'd expect those on either side of me to do the same) -- it's unnatural and uncomfortable but sitting next to people on small seats sucks, what are you gonna do?
Neil is freakin' awesome and nails it.
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