It gets the push back because “the spread” isn’t even a problem. I ride the transit every day and have seen people spreading their legs twice, both times the closed them back together if someone wanted to sit down. Also, there’s this great new thing called a penis that guys have. Keeping the testicles aerated is a natural instinct to keep the DNA inside the sperm cells intact and unchanged. This is shown even more by men having an entirely differently shaped pelvis, one that makes it impossible to keep the legs pressed against each other comfortably. Yes this is sexist since it only affects men who have different physical forms that prevent them from keeping everything pressed together.While manspreading is a well-known issue on public transit, there are very few public transit agencies talking about it. In December, New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority took the plunge and included manspreading in their “Courtesy Counts” campaign. Among a dozen messages targeting public transit do’s and don’ts installed on subway cars, one placard read, “Dude… Stop the Spread, Please.”
All the media coverage on MTA’s efforts got me interested in what subway riders themselves were saying about manspreading. So few weeks after the MTA’s efforts made headlines, I filed a public records request through MuckRock.com for MTA emails containing the word “manspreading.” The transit agency sent me a file of 18 email comments about the campaign from over the course of one month.
Of the 18 emails, nine of them called out the campaign for being sexist against men, anti-male, or contained gripes about how they ways women take up space are a far worse problem. The complaints range from the predictable to the offensive to the downright perplexing. A couple of them contained weird racial microaggressions (“Would the MTA also have a campaign ‘hey black folks, stop using the poles to do your dance routines?’ That would be racist by most counts, correct?” You’re correct. It would.) But from the worst of the worst we get a glimpse into the push-back a public agency gets when it dares to address issues around gender.
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you do realize, that this campaign gets this amount of pushback because it’s actual crap? seriously, has any of you...
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I ride rail near-daily and not once have I seen the oh-so-infamous manspread. The emails you got through FOI may not...
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It gets the push back because “the spread” isn’t even a problem. I ride the transit every day and have seen people...
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It’s because man spreading isn’t an issue. At all. Even slightly.
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