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Revealed: The scientific explanation behind 'manspreading'
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There’s a reason why men take up extra room when they sit down
[This article was first published in 2017]
For those still reeling from the arrival of "mansplaining" into our lexicon, fear not, this isn’t just another catchy portmanteau intended to scathe the male ego.
A recent study showed that 82 per cent of British women have been subjected to "mansplaining", whereby a man “talks condescendingly to someone (especially a woman) about something he has incomplete knowledge of”, according to Merriam Webster .
Whilst lesser known, the act of "manspreading" is arguably a far more offensive crime - so much so that it was banned in Madrid .
According to the online Oxford dictionary, "manspreading" describes “the practice whereby a man adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat'. It is a behaviour that is commonly spotted on public transport.
Now, experts are justifying the act, attributing a man's intrinsic need to spread himself on the physiological differences between men and women.
Many were quick to condemn that "practice" when it first came onto the rhetorical scene in 2014, as representative of a misogynistic patriarchy i.e. a man takes up as much space as possible on public transport in order to assert his authority and subsequently undermine a woman’s right to space.
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In 2015, Mic released a video showing what happens when a woman "manspreads" ("ladyspreads"?) on the subway in New York, in comparison to when a man does it.
Interestingly, the women attracted more stares and glares then the men.
Then, in 2016, the Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York even released an official anti-"manspreading" campaign, encouraging subway riders to exemplify "courtesy on public transport".
Whilst it's most certainly not the politest of ways to sit oneself, does the act of "manspreading" really legitimise anybody to define space as “inherently gendered”, as Mic subsequently did? Is it actually a case of men monopolising a woman’s space out of intrinsic entitlement? Or does science play a bigger part than we might think?
Spinal neurosurgeon John Sutcliffe explains that the art of "manspreading" could in fact be a matter of physicality, rather than sheer egotism.
“The overall width of the pelvis is relatively greater in females and the angle of the femoral neck is more acute. These factors could play a role in making a position of sitting with the knees close together less comfortable in men,” he told The Independent .
“I suspect most men would suggest the reason for adopting the more spread posture in sitting would be the avoidance of testicular compression from the thigh muscles. The pelvic rotation goes some way to improve compression in both aspects,” Sutcliffe continued.
Anatomical distinctions aren’t the only thing that might make women and men sit differently.
A recent Vice article points out that the way we sit might be down to something as simple as geography.
Poland is one of the most common countries where people experience hip dysplasia, were one’s hips come out of the socket i.e. many a Polish "manspreader".
Similarly those with Celtic hips are more likely to suffer from hip impingement, where range of motion is limited by deeper hip sockets. In other words, it’s good news for squatters (the exercise kind, not the homeless kind) but bad for perpetual "manspreaders".
That being said, at the risk of adding "mansplaining" fuel to the "manspreading" fire, let us consider basic etiquette before "mansplaining" commuters everywhere unanimously cry “it’s science, woman!”
Whilst us wide-hipped females empathise that sitting with your legs crossed isn’t the most comfortable of positions for menfolk, basic physiology doesn’t automatically grant every Tom, Dick and Harry a warrant to go spread-eagled on the tube every morning.
Seating is limited and carriages are jam-packed. To leg-spreaders everywhere, keep your hands (and your hips) to yourself.
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"Manspreading" is a slang term referring to the practice of spreading one's legs far apart while sitting, which is often criticized online for being inconsiderate of other passengers using public transit.
On May 8th, 2013, the Tumblr [1] blog "Men Taking Up Too Much Space on the Train" was launched, which highlights photographs of men sitting with their legs spread wide while sitting in New York City subway trains (shown below).
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On November 25th, 2013, the "One Bro, Two Seats" Tumblr [2] blog was created for photoshopped images of a young man sitting with his legs spread on a train (shown below, left). On May 19th, the "Saving Room For Cats " Tumblr [3] was launched, which features images of men sitting on trains with cats superimposed between their legs (shown below, right).
On August 7th, 2014, the women's interest blog Bustle [5] published an article titled "Why Do Guys Spread Their Legs When Sitting on the Subway?" On October 6th, 2014, the New York news blog AM New York [6] published an article titled "'Man spread'" a widening blight on public transportation," marking the earliest known use of the term. On November 17th, AM New York [7] reported that New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) was launching an awareness campaign to discourage manspreading. On December 18th, the New York City news blog Gothamist [4] published a video featuring a woman confronting manspreading men on the subway by asking them to measure the distance between their legs with measuring tape (shown below).
On December 20th, the New York Times [8] published an article about the new MTA awareness campaign. The same day, Gawker highlighted several comments from the New York Times article. On December 22nd, the conservative news site Breitbart [9] published an article about manspreading by staff writer Milo Yiannopoulos , who criticized the manspreading backlash for being "pathetic feminist pipsqueakery."
On September 26th, 2018, the Facebook [10] page In the Now uploaded a video titled "Fighting Manspreading… With Bleach!", featuring footage of a young woman dumping a clear liquid on men seated with their legs spread on public transit. Meanwhile, the video was tweeted by the @IntheNow_tweet Twitter feed (shown below). Over the next several weeks, the original Facebook upload received more than 6.6 million views, 50,400 shares, 29,000 reactions and 22,000 comments.
That day, the Russian news site PaperPaper [11] published an interview with a man who claimed he was paid to pretend to be a victim in the video and that the bleach was actually just water. On October 8th, the news site EU vs Disinfo [12] published an article titled " Viral “Manspreading” Video is Staged Kremlin Propaganda," which noted that In the Now was owned by Russia Today (RT). Additionally, the article speculated that the video was created as part of a disinformation campaign orchestrated by the Kremlin.
On June 10th, 2019, University of Brighton student Laila Laurel posted several photographs of men and women sitting in her custom manspreading chairs as part of an art piece titled "A Solution for Man-spreading" to her @lailapoppylaurel Instagram [13] feed (shown below). In the photos, the chair for men is shown to point inward in order to prevent the man's legs from flaring out, while the chair for women has a block added to the center to force their legs open.
In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the chairs, including Yahoo , [14] The Daily Mail [15] and LadBible. [16] Meanwhile, posts about the art project reached the front page of the /r/ MensRights [17] and /r/TumblrInAction [18] subreddits .
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