Ahhh yes the lovely nanny state and far lefties gotta love them. Apparently its illegal for a man to spread his legs sitting. Two poor souls got arrested this week for it. Oh well they deserve it since there current Mayor won by a landslide. Murders soaring in that city but the important thing is you must not spread your legs. This will solve all your issues. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11643052/Manspreading-arrests-the-long-arm-of-the-law-just-invaded-our-personal-space.html
That's stupid and ridiculous. I'm sure it must violate some type of legal right if not it would violate my personal rights that I feel I deserve as a human. The fuck? gonna get in trouble for spreading my legs on a train... it's like that time that I was in rehab for drug's and I told them about my food problems so they decide to watch me shit after every meal or not use the bathroom. I was like fuck that and just started using their bathrooms. though this is a lot worse and much more ridiculous I don't live anywhere where there's a subway but we do have a train that runs for a while on sky rails that I've probably used once or maybe twice. fuck that id start a fucking man spreading boycott. every man that get's on that train will man spread and we would not get arrested or else none of us use the train. and then why run the train? only for women and children... I doubt it.
There is absolutely nothing to indicate that it was a "lefty" initiative. If anything, due to the nature of this "new crime", it would follow the conservative movement of personal restrictions. Get over your blind hatred, it is getting rather boring.
I, and almost every lady I know, has experienced this on a public train. And it absolutely comes very close to crossing the line into assault. You're sitting in your seat, and a man presses his fucking thighs into your thighs so fucking hard that you would crawl into the seat next to you IF YOU COULD BUT YOU'RE ON A FULL FUCKING TRAIN AND SOME ASSHOLE IS TAKING UP ALMOST 2 SEATS with his massive balls and cock. If a man did this to you, BOY? With your big gun? What would you do if a gay man pressed his beefy thighs into yours in a crowded space, taking up room that you paid for? Do you think he's not stupid enough to know what he's doing?
Assault? Give me a break. Yeah, if you have external genitals you gotta spread your legs out a bit to be comfortable. People could always just ask someone to move over if it's really that bad.
I didn't say it was assault - I said that I have experienced situations where it is bordering on assault. What would you call it - You're sitting in a seat on a subway and someone nearly twice the size of you is purposely rubbing their shit all over you, in a crowded space where you cannot escape, and taking over your space that YOU PAID FOR? If that is not something bordering on assault, then what would you call it? What would you do if a gay man (twice your size) did this to you on a train? I'm not calling the police on these guys, but I will give them a WTF stare. It's not always assault, and I'm not saying it is. But it's obvious when it crosses the line from cluelessness to creepsicle. In most situations, the man is just not aware that he is encroaching into space that someone else paid for, because men are not conditioned from birth to keep their legs shut. And I"m sure their balls are just so massive...
I get were your coming from Penelope but do you really think a guy spreading his legs too far apart is a criminal act? IMO it is shameful that our lawmakers could make something like this a law
Where did I say it should be a criminal act? ETA: To clarify what I'm trying to say, it depends on the situation, and what really happened. I'm sure if the guy is arrested, it's because he did more than take up a little extra space on the train. But there are times, where shit like this crosses the line, and the media jumps on to a term like "man spreading" as though it means anything in any legal dictionary anywhere.
I tried to clarify. I'm not saying that spreading your legs too far apart is a criminal act. I'm saying rubbing yourself all over someone, on a crowded train, and encroaching into space they paid for - is coming pretty close to a criminal act, if not completely crossing the line.
But rubbing yourself all over someone on a crowded train and having your legs too far apart and taking up more than one seat is two separate crimes
Of course they're not going to make a gender specific law. That would cause a lot of problems. Both genders of capable of opening their legs too far apart
Mostly to Penelope: You think when you pay for a subway ticket you pay for personal space? I've never ridden a subway so correct me if I'm wrong but I thought they weren't like airplanes in that you can sit wherever you like. Unlike in an airplane you have assigned seating and you actually did pay for that seat. Therefore your argument is crushed. \nAnyone thinking this law is valid or the tiniest bit acceptable needs to go f'ing live in China for 1 hour or something, they would cry rape within the first 5 minutes. Powder me up because all those people deserved to be slapped. \nIf a hobo comes and sits next to me and is doing things I don't like(like jerking it), I would get up and find a different spot. I wouldn't stay there and take it, then later make a law saying no hobos on the subway. I know it's not American to do this anymore but you could politely ask them not to do it...
I think the point is that its border line sexual harassment Idk about the act of "spreading legs" being illegal, but I wont shed a tear about them ssitting trial for sexual harassment -yuri
Isn't that kind of what I said? I mean, I'm not really talking about "crimes" at all, other than to say that I"ve been in situations that BORDER on criminal. Not a crime. But close. On the border of crimeville and creepytown.
If I'm paying for a space on a train, I'm paying for a space on a train. What I"m not paying for is a rub down from some dude next to me who thinks his balls are too big to keep his legs parallel. And it's not my responsibility to move - it's his responsibility not to be a creep. I had a conversation with Mr. Penelope about this, because he is totally guilty of spreading a bit too wide at times. His response was that he can sit with his legs parallel, but it requires the use of his leg muscles. I was literally speechless. Like how the fuck does he think that women have managed all of these years? Using our leg muscles to keep our goddamn knees together like it's a miracle from jesus, or something. And us ladies are accused of being weak!
So keeping your legs straight together is hard work? Next thing I'll hear is that putting on make-up is hard work...Sorry, but men have actual hard backbreaking work to do in real life...so when we have a second to sit down we like to relax. In 10 years of construction I've seen 5 girls out of tens of thousands of employees. 1 actual worker, and 4 women cleaners who cleaned the rooms. By a men's standards, you are weak physically and emotionally, get over it. Back to my argument...Is a subway like an airplane where you pay for a specific seat because if not your argument makes absolutely 0 sense and you come off as an entitled little princess. Sorry but you share this world with billions, BILLIONS of other people, if you take public transportation, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, you're going to get rubbed on sometimes. Go to China and come back and complain, PLEASE. Take a trip with that husband of yours.