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Manspreading, or man-sitting, is a term used to describe the practice of sitting on public transport with legs wide apart, thereby covering more than one seat.^[1]^[2]

External links

why nyc's campaign against manspreading hit a nerve Q on CBC

References

^ Fitzsimmons, Emma G. (20 December 2014). "A Scourge Is Spreading. M.T.A.'s Cure? Dude, Close Your Legs". The New York Times.
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External links

Gabrielle Moss, "Why Do Guys Spread Their Legs When Sitting on The Subway? My Weekend of Sitting Like a Man", Bustle.
Jennifer Schuessler, "Dialect Society Names Its Word of the Year: #blacklivesmatter", The New York Times, 10 January 2015.

[nytsimmons-1] Fitzsimmons, Emma G. (20 December 2014). "A Scourge Is Spreading. M.T.A.'s Cure? Dude, Close Your Legs". The New York Times.

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+'''Manspreading''', or '''man-sitting''', is a term used to describe the practice of sitting on public transport with legs wide apart, thereby covering more than one seat.<ref name="nytsimmons">{{Cite news|url = http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/nyregion/MTA-targets-manspreading-on-new-york-city-subways.html|title = A Scourge Is Spreading. M.T.A.’s Cure? Dude, Close Your Legs.|last = Fitzsimmons|first = Emma G.|date = 20 December 2014|work =The New York Times |access-date = }}</ref><ref name=":0" />
-[[File:SUBWAY RIDERS LOST IN THEIR OWN THOUGHTS AND READING THE NEWSPAPER ON THE LEXINGTON AVENUE LINE OF THE NEW YORK CITY... - NARA - 556666.jpg|thumb|Man on right may be manspreading.]]
-'''Manspreading''', or '''man-sitting''', is a term used to describe the practice of sitting on public transport with legs wide apart, thereby covering more than one seat.<ref name="nytsimmons">{{Cite news|url = http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/nyregion/MTA-targets-manspreading-on-new-york-city-subways.html|title = A Scourge Is Spreading. M.T.A.’s Cure? Dude, Close Your Legs.|last = Fitzsimmons|first = Emma G.|date = 20 December 2014|work =The New York Times |access-date = }}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Both this posture and usage of the term has caused some internet criticism, and debates in the USA, UK, Turkey and Canada.<ref>Radhika Sanghani, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11309866/Ban-manspreading-Brits-want-men-to-sit-with-their-legs-together.html "'Ban manspreading': Londoners want men to sit with their legs together on the Tube"], ''The Telegraph'', 23 Dec 2014.</ref><ref name=Seattle>{{Cite news|url = http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/17/us-usa-transportation-manspreading-idUSKBN0KQ01120150117|title = One body, one seat: Seattle's campaign against the 'manspreading' scourge|last = Johnson|first = Eric M.|date = 16 January 2015 |work = |access-date = |publisher = Reuters}}</ref> The term first appeared in public debate when a [[feminist]] anti-manspreading campaign was started on the [[social media]] website [[Tumblr]] in 2013; almost immediately, the validity of the term was questioned.<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://metro.co.uk/2014/12/23/those-guilty-of-manspreading-on-tube-are-fighting-back-against-feminists-4997655/|title = Those guilty of #manspreading on tube are fighting back against feminists|last = Willis|first = Amy|date = 23 Dec 2014|work = |access-date = |publisher = Metro}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url = http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/05/manspreading-and-the-great-ttc-gender-wars-a-campaign-too-far-or-silliness-worth-taking-seriously/|title = ‘Manspreading’ and the Great TTC Gender Wars: A campaign too far, or silliness worth taking seriously?|last = Matt Gurney, Jonathan Goldsbie|first = |date = 5 January 2015|work = |access-date = |publisher = National Post}}</ref>
-The [[Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York)|Metropolitan Transportation Authority]] (MTA) in the [[New York metropolitan area]] and [[Sound Transit]] of [[Seattle]] have instituted poster campaigns encouraging respectful posture when other passengers have to stand due to crowding on buses and trains. Transport officials in cities such as [[Philadelphia]], [[Chicago]], and [[Washington, D.C.]], however, have denied that it is a significant problem.<ref name="nytsimmons" /><ref name=Seattle/> The MTA campaign will carry slogans like "Dude, stop the spread please!".<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Mumbais-got-its-own-man-spreaders/articleshow/45609512.cms|title = Mumbai’s got its own ‘man-spreaders’|last = Tahseen|first = Ismat|date = 23 December 2014|work =The Times of India |access-date = |publisher = }}</ref> In some cases, people who find manspreading offensive have taken to photographing manspreading, and posting those images on the net.<ref name="nytsimmons" />
-==Debate==
-While anti-manspreading campaigners have criticized the practice for being rude and inconsiderate to other passengers who have to stand, they have also been counter-criticized for focusing on men, and for ignoring women who also take up more than one seat; there is therefore substantive debate over whether "manspreading" is in fact a serious social issue, or if it is simply an accusation based in [[misandric]] [[sexism]]. <ref name=":0">Cathy Young, [http://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/cathy-young/manspreading-but-women-hog-subway-space-too-cathy-young-1.9776186 "'Manspreading'? But women hog subway space, too"], ''Newsday'', January 5, 2015.</ref><ref name="star">Daniel Otis, [http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/12/28/manspreading_a_transit_controversy_with_legs.html?app=noRedirect "Man-spreading, a transit controversy with legs"], ''thestar.com'', Dec 28 2014.</ref><ref name="star" /> The practise of posting pictures of "manspreaders" taken on subways, buses and other modes of transportation online has been criticized as public humiliation or shaming.<ref name="Public Shaming">{{cite web|last1=Devon|first1=Natasha|title=The rise of stranger shaming: How humiliating others became acceptable|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/the-rise-of-stranger-shaming-how-humiliating-others-became-acceptable-9982260.html|work=The Independent |date=16 January 2015}}</ref>
-==Gallery==
-<gallery>
-File:NYC Subway Passengers vc.jpg|Women not manspreading
-File:NY subway life.jpg|Seated man
-File:Dinner on the F Train, New York Subway.jpg|Eating while manspreading
-File:Salaryman asleep on the Tokyo Subway.jpg|Sleeping
-File:Dc metro car interior.jpg|Possible manspreading on the Metro
-</gallery>
 ==See also==
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 * Jennifer Schuessler, [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/10/dialect-society-names-its-word-of-the-year-blacklivesmatter/?_r=0 "Dialect Society Names Its Word of the Year: #blacklivesmatter"], ''The New York Times'', 10 January 2015.
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