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INSANITY Brit feminist designs bus/train chairs to force men's legs closed & women's apart, gets award & a job
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Summerthyme, the last part of your last sentence got cut off...
"And currently living in the wrong country, and need to all go home."
"And currently living in the wrong country, and need to all go home."
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Update...
https://pluralist.com/manspreading-chair-sky-news/
News Host Tries Feminist Student’s ‘Anti-Manspreading’ Chair – Nearly Gets His Balls Crushed
By Pluralist | Jul 26, 2019
"British news hosts tried out a feminist student’s “anti-manspreading” chair and found the experience to be rather painful.
Laila Laurel, 23, made international headlines earlier this month after she won a national prize for designing chairs that force men to sit with their legs closed, thereby preventing the practice commonly known as manspreading. Laurel, a 2019 graduate of the University of Brighton, won the Belmond Award in mid-July for her work entitled, “A Solution for Man Spreading.”
During an interview segment aired this week on British network Sky News, Laurel expounded on her feminist beliefs in regard to manspreading.
“I think occasionally it is a micro-aggression, and I’ve heard stories from women where it turns into something that’s far more aggressive,” Laurel added.
“There’s a myriad of problems around it,” she said.
At one point, Sky News’ male hosts took turns sitting in Laurel’s anti-manspreading chair.
“Oh dear. My voice nearly raised by about an octave there,” one host joked as soon as he sat in the seat and then suggested “cutting away” so he could “adjust” himself.
“I didn’t want any more children anyway,” he later added.
The issue that sparked the manspreading chair
In recent years, feminists and women’s rights advocates have railed against the manspreading phenomenon. Women complain that manspreaders, especially on public transport, sit with their legs wide apart and take up more space than needed. According to feminists, what may appear to be an innocuous practice, is actually a problematic assertion of patriarchal power.
Progressive journalist Liz Plank, writing for Mic in 2015, outlined the various ways the purportedly sexist phenomenon harmed society.
“By virtue of being occupied by both men and women, space is inherently gendered. The way women and men interact is guided by norms and scripts that steer our behavior in a way that is so powerful that it is often unconscious. Research shows that when in public, women tend to occupy less space, holding legs closer together and keeping their arms closer to their bodies. Men on the other hand are more likely to have their legs spread at a 10- to 15-degree angle and keep their arms 5 to 10 degrees away from their bodies,” she wrote.
“But this isn’t just about space. Researchers have found that taking expansive body postures doesn’t just make people feel more entitled, it also makes them more likely to steal, cheat and fail to respect traffic laws. So manspreading can breed bigger problems than just crowded subway cars: It reinforces attitudes and behaviors that are harmful for society as a whole,” Plank added.
MORE: Woman Pouring Bleach on ‘Manspreading’ Train Riders Might Be a Publicity Stunt
In 2017, Madrid banned manspreading on all forms of public transport. New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority targeted manspreading with a public awareness campaign in 2014."
https://pluralist.com/manspreading-chair-sky-news/
News Host Tries Feminist Student’s ‘Anti-Manspreading’ Chair – Nearly Gets His Balls Crushed
By Pluralist | Jul 26, 2019
"British news hosts tried out a feminist student’s “anti-manspreading” chair and found the experience to be rather painful.
Laila Laurel, 23, made international headlines earlier this month after she won a national prize for designing chairs that force men to sit with their legs closed, thereby preventing the practice commonly known as manspreading. Laurel, a 2019 graduate of the University of Brighton, won the Belmond Award in mid-July for her work entitled, “A Solution for Man Spreading.”
During an interview segment aired this week on British network Sky News, Laurel expounded on her feminist beliefs in regard to manspreading.
“I think occasionally it is a micro-aggression, and I’ve heard stories from women where it turns into something that’s far more aggressive,” Laurel added.
“There’s a myriad of problems around it,” she said.
At one point, Sky News’ male hosts took turns sitting in Laurel’s anti-manspreading chair.
“Oh dear. My voice nearly raised by about an octave there,” one host joked as soon as he sat in the seat and then suggested “cutting away” so he could “adjust” himself.
“I didn’t want any more children anyway,” he later added.
The issue that sparked the manspreading chair
In recent years, feminists and women’s rights advocates have railed against the manspreading phenomenon. Women complain that manspreaders, especially on public transport, sit with their legs wide apart and take up more space than needed. According to feminists, what may appear to be an innocuous practice, is actually a problematic assertion of patriarchal power.
Progressive journalist Liz Plank, writing for Mic in 2015, outlined the various ways the purportedly sexist phenomenon harmed society.
“By virtue of being occupied by both men and women, space is inherently gendered. The way women and men interact is guided by norms and scripts that steer our behavior in a way that is so powerful that it is often unconscious. Research shows that when in public, women tend to occupy less space, holding legs closer together and keeping their arms closer to their bodies. Men on the other hand are more likely to have their legs spread at a 10- to 15-degree angle and keep their arms 5 to 10 degrees away from their bodies,” she wrote.
“But this isn’t just about space. Researchers have found that taking expansive body postures doesn’t just make people feel more entitled, it also makes them more likely to steal, cheat and fail to respect traffic laws. So manspreading can breed bigger problems than just crowded subway cars: It reinforces attitudes and behaviors that are harmful for society as a whole,” Plank added.
MORE: Woman Pouring Bleach on ‘Manspreading’ Train Riders Might Be a Publicity Stunt
In 2017, Madrid banned manspreading on all forms of public transport. New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority targeted manspreading with a public awareness campaign in 2014."