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Should Government Regulate how Men are Allowed to Sit?

Should government regulate how men are allowed to sit?

  • Yes (Explain why please)

    Votes: 3 37.5%

  • No (Explain why please)

    Votes: 5 62.5%

  • I don't know

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Manspreading should be required of all passengers, which will look ridiculous but result in equality

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    8
  • Poll closed .
WCH said:
Doesn't that discriminate against plus-sized folks?
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I hate plus sized people on air planes

I had to sit beside three on recent flights. I had my seat space and leg space invaded by them. I am not a small person but I fit in my seat without taking up other peoples space.

Airlines should and do charge by the seat space. If the plus sized person needs to have two seats to sit properly, they should buy two seats. Or purchase a business class seat
 
truthatallcost said:
Thank you, I believe that this shows where things are heading if we don't nip PC culture in the bud. The manspread is the new symbol of resistance, like the clenched fist was in the 60's.
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Such a wonderful cause and a wonderful way of protest

With my legs spread I fight PC culture, who cares about old people and pregnant women who can not find a place to sit. I am man see me spread
 
I hate the term "mansoreading". While men do it more often, I see plenty of women doing it on the metro as well.

But the sign is too specific. The problem is people taking up more than one seat, whether that is by leg spreading or giving your purse or backpack it's own seat.

But if you are going to do it, then do it like a boss.



:)
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
I hate plus sized people on air planes

I had to sit beside three on recent flights. I had my seat space and leg space invaded by them. I am not a small person but I fit in my seat without taking up other peoples space.

Airlines should and do charge by the seat space. If the plus sized person needs to have two seats to sit properly, they should buy two seats. Or purchase a business class seat
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I was being snarky. My second thought was men should cross their legs like good little metrosexuals.
 
WCH said:
I was being snarky. My second thought was men should cross their legs like good little metrosexuals.
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I say we allow good little metrosexuals like you to engage in your illusions via man spreading while we encourage women to adopt the behavior.
 
I voted yes...only if it includes my husband...:tongue4:
 
truthatallcost said:
So, you may be asking yourself, who the heck has time to concern themselves with how others choose to sit? Well read on;



'Manspreading' is now a no-no on Madrid's public buses - CNN.com

Should government regulate how men are allowed to sit in public?
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Yup, if you are such an asswipe that you refuse to sit in your seat and instead take several seats away from the paying public by spreading your legs so wide that the seats besides you (true for men and women) than you are stealing seating space and a public transport company has every right to ban that.
 
truthatallcost said:
Are you aware of the she-bagging crisis that's going on?

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Woman on London Underground, "she-bagging" by taking up the adjacent seat
The criticism and campaigns against manspreading have been counter-criticized for not addressing similar behavior by women, such as taking up adjacent seats with bags, or "she-bagging".

Don't hate the 'spread bro unless you're going to also hate the she-bag.

Got it bro?

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Which would also be banned under this taking up of multiple seats. IMHO.
 
You paid for one seat. Confine yourself to what you paid for.
 
truthatallcost said:
Because some of us don't like being hen-pecked.
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This has nothing to do with being hen-pecked but about you riding in someone's mode of transport for which that transport company is fully free to institute behavioral rules. And if "men" do not like that, tough luck for them.
 
Serenity said:
They actually arrested two men two years ago

First people arrested for 'manspreading' on New York subway - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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That was reported in Gothamist - a blog - and not independently by any local NY paper - I remember because it thought it odd and looked for it. The MTA does have a rule about taking up more than one seat but it's not specific to manspreading, they also have concerns about backpacks and luggage and what not taking up space when people want to sit.
 
What with summer coming along, we obviously have a lame news season already:roll:

I find the sign next to the "stick to your seat, moron" pictogram to be addressing an equally annoying problem and wrongly at that.

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"Conectate" is virtually an imperative that would be better replaced with "Apaga tu maldito teléfono"

Cabron
 
Looks like it's about taking up more than one seat, good for them.

truthatallcost said:
Because some of us don't like being hen-pecked.
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Then don't go out into public, ever. Problem solved.

If you DO go into public, yes, there will be rules of interaction, just as there are in nearly any sufficiently common public activity, setting, place of business, etc., etc., etc.
You live in a society. With other people. And we either get along, or we have problems...

Or are you one of those gems that keeps their cell phone on during a movie?
 
Mach said:
Looks like it's about taking up more than one seat, good for them.


Then don't go out into public, ever. Problem solved.

If you DO go into public, yes, there will be rules of interaction, just as there are in nearly any sufficiently common public activity, setting, place of business, etc., etc., etc.
You live in a society. With other people. And we either get along, or we have problems...

Or are you one of those gems that keeps their cell phone on during a movie?
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If these women want to be Subway Avengers, why don't they address some of the real problems that commuters face riding public transportation?

Like the dance crews that force people to cram into the sides of subway cars so that they can do backflips in people's faces?



Here's what happens when you don't clear out of the way to let them do their dance moves.

 
Sure sounds as if somebody had some women tread on his gonads :mrgreen:
 
Chagos said:
Sure sounds as if somebody had some women tread on his gonads :mrgreen:
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The whole thing is pure ridiculousness. Do we really need signs telling men to how to sit in public? Tell the truth, do the men in Spain pay any attention to these petty demands of feminists?
 
truthatallcost said:
The whole thing is pure ridiculousness. Do we really need signs telling men to how to sit in public? Tell the truth, do the men in Spain pay any attention to these petty demands of feminists?
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Agreed...it's pretty sad when we have to instruct grown men...or women for that matter...to be mannerly in public...but that's what it's come to...
 
Elvira said:
Agreed...it's pretty sad when we have to instruct grown men...or women for that matter...to be mannerly in public...but that's what it's come to...
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You're from down south? How do you like the trend of grown men down there walking around with their underwear hanging out of their pants? I see a lot more of that than instances of man spreading.
 
truthatallcost said:
You're from down south? How do you like the trend of grown men down there walking around with their underwear hanging out of their pants? I see a lot more of that than instances of man spreading.
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Virginia to be exact...I despise it but the trend is waning somewhat thank goodness...
 
truthatallcost said:
The whole thing is pure ridiculousness. Do we really need signs telling men to how to sit in public? Tell the truth, do the men in Spain pay any attention to these petty demands of feminists?
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They better pay attention to the rules of the company that operates the public transport or they can get fined (and quite rightly so). That men in Spain and other countries have problems with common decent behavior is not the fault of feminists but the men who are too uncivilized to behave in public.
 
truthatallcost said:
The whole thing is pure ridiculousness. Do we really need signs telling men to how to sit in public? Tell the truth, do the men in Spain pay any attention to these petty demands of feminists?
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The whole darn thing isn't about men over here as much as it is about anybody hogging space by spreading him- or herself right into the adjacent seat. Nobody here is remotely interested in turning it into some sort of political drama fuelled by a gender war. In fact if I read some of these posts to Spanish friends here (male or female) they'd surely laugh their heads off.

There isn't any cop on these buses or trains in Madrid whose sole purpose is to break the knee of the intrusive leg with a baton.

So if you ever come here, by all means spread 'em, baby.

You'll show everybody that you're a maleducado and were you then to justify your stance with exercising your male rights, you'd probably get maricon thrown in as a bonus.:2razz:
 
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truthatallcost said:
If these women want to be Subway Avengers, why don't they address some of the real problems that commuters face riding public transportation?

Like the dance crews that force people to cram into the sides of subway cars so that they can do backflips in people's faces?



Here's what happens when you don't clear out of the way to let them do their dance moves.

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Get a life.
 
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