Manspreading, the curse of . . .

[Efour]

Men should have right to keep their balls cool.

This is clearly a feminist agenda to damage male virility.

This is very sexist. TransWomen should also have the right to keep their balls cool.

Also anyone that identifies as ball enabled

 

[plasmahal]

Can we invent a device that stops women putting their bags on the seat next to them in the expectation that people will be happy to stand on a busy train instead of inconveniencing them?

Or you could have the balls (pun intended) to ask them to move their bag.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

I was thinking about this earlier today on a bus.

With my knees firmly wedged against the back of the next row of seats.

Until someone left.

Then I could change my discomfort to merely sitting weirdly angled across two seats.

You could actually get them behind the seat in front? I can't do that and sit down at the same time, not without breaking my kneecaps at anyrate.

Can we invent a device that stops women putting their bags on the seat next to them in the expectation that people will be happy to stand on a busy train instead of inconveniencing them?

Or you could have the balls (pun intended) to ask them to move their bag.

When they ignore you and glare at you like they wished you'd drop dead right in front of them, is it ok then?

 

[Aedus]

Or you could have the balls (pun intended) to ask them to move their bag.

and if they refuse, just plonk your balls on it anyway

 

[Hotwired]

You could actually get them behind the seat in front? I can't do that and sit down at the same time, not without breaking my kneecaps at anyrate.

I'm a little shorter than average.

A couple of rows in front there were two guys that were taller who were doing a good impression of "manspreading" with one knee out into the aisle.

I think the bus dimensions were specced for the average woman and children not grown men.

 

[Brizzles]

Design a chair that swallows &nd ejects the passenger if certain criteria is met ;

Overuse of perfume/aftershave - have a shower, dont douse youself in cheap smellies in the hope no-one will notice.Even Bluebottles will die gettibg close to you.

Bluetooth conversations- i don,t want sit next to someone who randomly spouts out words to thin air.

Disable social media - theres nothing like a group of people laughing like chimpanzees on crack watching a video of their mate, to make me want to throw myself under the bus i,m on.

Eating - no i don,t want to hear or smell your need to consume food because you cant survive that 15 minute jouney without stuffing your face.

ELBOWS - Aargh too much.............

 

[plasmahal]

and if they refuse, just plonk your balls on it anyway

Exactly

 

[Hades]

Or you could have the balls (pun intended) to ask them to move their bag.

What makes you think I don't?

 

[PermaChanged]

Paper: An anatomic overview to “manspreading” campaign
https://www.ejmanager.com/mnstemps/134/134-1527940398.pdf?

Stop talking sense will you!?

Also, at 6ft3, and proportionally long femur'd, the distance between my knees is substantial which may lead to people thinking I'm "manspreading", however, the actual angle of my legs/hips isn't disproportionately more open.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

The judges said Ms Laurel's chairs were imaginative and cleverly presented

I concur. I can see why she won the award. These kind of things are there to promote discussion, and well, here we are

 

[Amnesia]

I noticed that in this story she also made a chair for women that has them spreading their legs when seated. In other words, its nothing to do with people having their legs apart. It's purely an anti-male thing.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/18/student-creates-chair-put-end-manspreading-10418726/

So women with short skirts are forced to display ? lol

 

[Wucked]

It is amazing how (some) people have interpreted this as an outrageous Feminist attack on their inalienable, selfish right to occupy as much space as they want on a tube train, bus or cinema seat.

Get over your sensitive selves - if you don't like behaving considerately, STAND UP and give your seat to someone with better manners than you or stay home and sprawl slob like on a sofa consuming cheap lager and watching Desperate Housewives.

Manspreading I get, it’s irritating for most people and it’s mostly men that do it. But when combined with other fourth wave feminist vocabulary such as bropropriating, mansplaining and manterrupting, it starts to annoy me. Taking credit for things that are not yours or acting in a condescending manner is something that all genders engage in. I say all genders in a vague attempt to be PC, because honestly I have no idea how many there are meant to be now. But that’s another conversation entirely.

 

[stockhausen]

"fourth wave feminist vocabulary"

OK, thanks for sharing - I'll look that one up

 

[Wucked]

"fourth wave feminist vocabulary"

OK, thanks for sharing - I'll look that one up

Probably best you don’t, it won’t enrich your life any. I only know some of it because I like to make an effort to understand all points of view.

 

[FortuitousFluke]

I concur. I can see why she won the award. These kind of things are there to promote discussion, and well, here we are

This is a discussion? I'm just confused because there seems to be a lot more frustrated sobbing than I'm used to, and who is going to pick up all of these toys!?

 

[AhhBisto]

I hate sitting next to people because I can't "manspread" ***** painful when you've got knee, quad and back injuries. And sometimes you can't even avoid it, the gap between seat rows on busses is so small can't physically have legs straight.

 

[cu3ed]

I'm 6'2, so even when sitting normally the angle of difference from the length of my leg bone is going to make it look like its more spread, sitting with my knees close more together isn't comfortable for me.

 

[Nasher]

Just flip it round and problem solved?

 

[mmj_uk]

It's just the nanny state trying to control how people sit by making buzzwords that people with nothing better to do in life cling onto. Isn't this the very essence of Fascism? in totalitarian states most of the policing is done by normal people to one another and people start acting (or in this case sitting) a certain way out of fear of being reported or attacked by the conformists etc.

 

[stockhausen]

It's just the nanny state trying to control how people sit . . .

Laila Laurel is a Nanny
Well why didn't they make that clear?
I was under the impression that she was a University student.