Black Dog

Manspreading doesn't just effect women though. It's just generic asshole behaviour. It's not a safety issue, it's a etiquette issue.

What's it to you if someone finds that offensive? Why does other people taking offense offend you so?

#notallmufflers

Cool, so you'd be down with massive government intervention into the junk food/fast food markets just like they did with smoking? high taxes, warning labels, age restrictions, etc etc?

What anti-manspreading laws?

Here's some more from the Gothamist post that seems to have been the first to pick up this report:

It's hard because, taken literally, your post was completely pointless. The only way it made sense was if you were implying some kind of double standard in play. But ok: I'll accept the post was, in fact, pointless. Link is busted, but your original link shows that the alleged arrests weren't actually about manspreading. So rather than being about teh evvvvil feminists, it's shithead cops being shitheads. But you haven't said boo about that, have you? It's all about the SJW for you.

Don't be cute. We all know what you were driving at. Now, care to speak to the fact that your hysterical claim that people are getting arrested for manspreading on empty trains appears to be a total fiction? Or are you going to do what you normally do when confronted with an inconvenient argument and just ignore it.

Don't be cute. We all know what you were driving at. Now, care to speak to the fact that your hysterical claim that people are getting arrested for manspreading on empty trains appears to be a total fiction? Or are you going to do what you normally do when confronted with an inconvenient argument and just ignore it.

Being fat isn't really a choice like being an inconsiderate asshole is. Your argument is invalid.

They aren't. Do you have a problem with it?

I guess it could be for men. Sometimes, though, it's for - and you're gonna want to be sitting down here - herself.

It's a expression of male dominance that can serve to inconvenience others.

I don't think anyone would disagree. Except Euler who needs a precise numerical measurement agreed upon by the appropriate international standards body to even consider the possibility. You're making a lot of assumptions based on one crappy photo. Point is: there's no reason to sit like he is there. More assumptions. The guy next to the spreader in the first photo looks pretty compacted into his space, while the second photo guy is preventing anyone from sitting beside him by occupying the centre of two seats. On a busier train, that's just asshole behaviour. Anyway, you don't need to actually inconvenience people to be manspreading, but when you inconvenience people while manspreading, that's when it gets annoying and worthy of comment/criticism/shame.

Then the problem is you and your...whatever your condition is. OCD? Asperger's? Hard to tell from that pic. He does seem to be bumping up against the guy next to him. There's no reason to be so splayed out, especially on the Underground, which has pretty narrow seats. The first pic seems to be, but again, it's hard to tell from that angle. The second one definitely is since the guy is actually taking up two seats.

What exactly are you looking for? A precise measurement? Everyone (except apparently you) knows what it means: when someone spreads their legs far apart so as to take up more than their allotted space and/or interfere with other passengers' space. Not sure why you are continuing to play dumb on this point or why a precise definition even matters at all. Examples or GTFO.

This sounds like a crock of crap to me.

The issue isn't the gender, it's the behaviour itself. IOW: no one is annoyed by manspreaders because they are men; they are annoyed because they are inconsiderate jerks. Yeah. And?

Because its a behaviour almost exclusively practiced by men. No, no it's not.

How large are we talking here? Mango? Navel Orange? Lime?

Irrelevant. You claimed you " have not observed any SJWs trying to make a reasonable definition of manspreading." Your own link provides one. Did you not read the link perhaps? Now, I expect you could apply the term to other douchey behaviours: for example, slouching low in the seat and sticking your legs into the aisle. Perhaps, like pornography, you know what it is when you see it. But overall, "sitting with legs spread so far apart that one takes up multiple seats" seems like a reasonable definition to me.

LOL. Did you read the title of your link? In the immortal words of Tag Team: whoomp, there it is. Because men are the only ones who engage in this particular behaviour, which is distinct from other, equally obnoxious activities (bags on seats, eating, clipping fingernails). Man, for someone who spends as much time as you do decrying the hypersensitivity of the so-called "SJW" set, you sure are a whiny baby about this stuff.

Which ones? Names and links please. Which ones? Names and links please. Strawmanning again, eh?

Surprised you didn't go with the evolutionary angle for sprawling out like a dumbass. "Mother Nature dictates men must spread for comfort and to present for mating purposes! Can't argue with natural selection!"

Hmm. Sounds serious. Have you looked into BOFA? It's like putting your feet up or your bag on a seat or clipping your fingernails: an all too common antisocial behaviour on public transportation.