June is Manspreading Awareness Month.
For those of you who may not know, manspreading is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as:
manspreading man·spread·ing/?man?sprediNG/ The practice whereby a man, especially one traveling on public transportation, adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat or seats.
We define it as when a dude takes up too much space on the subway or the bus or a park bench by splaying his legs wide open in order to accommodate what we can only assume are his massively large balls, like so:
Public transportation officials are officially requesting male passengers keep their knees together while riding on the metro.
How about we take this to the next level?
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The Municipal Transport Company tweeted this image of a little red guy with his legs spread wide open, taking up two seats, along with a slash mark, the universal symbol for “NO!”
A partir de hoy podrás ver nuevos paneles en el interior de los buses que pretenden un uso cívico y respetuoso del espacio ¿qué te parecen? pic.twitter.com/FosfjGoGuT
— EMT de Madrid (@EMTmadrid) June 13, 2017
The tweet is captioned:
Starting today you will see new panels in the interior of the buses intended to a civic and respectful use of the space, what do you think?
The company also issued a statement saying:
El Manspreading is an English term that describes the position of men who open their legs excessively when they sit, occupying the seats next to his, among other situations. The mission of this new pictographic icon is to be a reminder of the need to maintain civic behavior and to respect the space of everyone on board the bus.
Scroll down for pics of guys manspreading. And, fellas, the next time you decide to take a wide stance on the subway, please consider the people around you…
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OrchidIslander
I am down for some serious “manspreading” with those beefy and manly thunder thighs found in 5th pic up from the bottom. To borrow a phrase from James Comey – “Lordy!”
Xzamilloh
The dude with the Nike backpack can “manspread” all he wants. It’s the only reason I even clicked on this nonsense.
Feminists and their stupid “man” this “man” that. “Mansplain”… “Manspreading”… hey, feminazis, how about you stop “Ovary-acting” to everything. If you can put your damn purse in the seat next to you like it’s another person, I’m gonna open my legs and not put my balls in a vice grip. They do need to breathe, you know.
Xzamilloh
And the dumb bitch trying to describe the last picture as “manspreading”… that dude is in half the damn seat and is leaning over the side. Unless those are really small seats — I don’t remember the trains having seats that small when I was stationed in Germany — the person next to him is taking up more space than he is.
David
Manspreading is a bullshit word. That’s just sitting when you’re a tall person. You know what happens if you have your legs straight out in front of you at an upward angle? It’s uncomfortable! Women don’t have this problem because most of them are short! If I try to sandwich all of me into the space of a single seat on the bus, I end up with cramps in my legs.
Short people are just being assholes with this garbage.
Heywood Jablowme
Except for that rude “dude” at rush hour, the others seem to be on uncrowded trains where it’s a non-problem. Manspreading is only a problem when it interferes with others getting a seat.
In the first photo (hot) the guy is not even manspreading, really – there’s someone in the seat next to him. So how is it a problem? Unless you just hate men who wear shorts? This seems to have morphed into a weird kind of male “body-shaming” by a certain type of man-hating feminist (sorry to get all Brian/Richard 55 on you – can’t wait to see what “Brian” has to say on this!).
MediaGuy
Brian is dead.
Tobi
@MediaGuy. Pleasure. Overload.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Brought to you by man hating millennial fat girls that can’t get laid.
KaiserVonScheiss
Just more sexist/feminist nonsense. Men have testicles. Get over it.
If feminists didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards. It’s okay to criticise something if men do it, but when you criticise a woman, it’s sexist.
Mo Bro
For even pointing that out, you’re obviously sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, vagophobic, mammariophobic, uterist . . . all via your superior mansplaining chauvinism.
Nah . . . you’re just telling it like it is.
GayEGO
Guys have balls, women have wide hips, big deal!
MediaGuy
Wrap those legs around my neck. That’ll solve the problem.
NateOcean
I _like_ man-spreading, especially if they are wearing loose shorts. You can get some sweet views up the leg-holes. Often, if they know you are looking, they’ll shift to give you a better look.
I *dis*-like woman-spreading. My boyfriend was walking up stairs and got a face full of vajayjay from the nasty woman-spreader a the top of the stairs. His eyes got as big as saucers from the bore-sighted nastiness.
Brian S
The concept of “manspreading” is ridiculous and is just another way for people to criticize others and to feel good about themselves. “At least I don’t manspread.”
jimstoic
“Manspreading” can be a defensive way to avoid having people bump into one’s knees. It should not, however, be done in a manner that takes up multiple seats.
JaredMacBride
Big difference between “manspreading” and being a jerk.
silveroracle
It’s bad enough trying to get people to keep their feet off the seats in the UK, not just manspreading. LOL.
BlogShag
Some of these people are not manspreading. That’s just the way they sit. The guys doing that to impede other people’s sitting space are just rude
sfbeast
I like the guy with the huge thighs and 3551 likes. The rest of him looks pretty good too.
Mo Bro
Do I likewise have a social beef with obese people who are “fatspreading” their way around every aspect of their lives?
No, I do not, for I am not a petulant child seeking fault in everyone but themselves.
JLAD1105
In most of these photos, I don’t see any “manspreading” in action. For most men it’s just called sitting. I worked in downtown Dallas for many years and most often took a bus to get there because parking was so expensive. While it was easy on my budget, it was hell on me personally when I had to deal with people talking excessively loudly on their cell phones or to other passengers. Most of these transgressors were women. Will laws be implemented to address this matter? Of course, that would require many of those women (and quite a few men) to pull the cork out of their buttholes first. Is “manspreading” a real issue? Or more like “compassionate conservatism” and the transgendered concept – a fake one?
highestbidder
more feminazi bullshit