Man spreading
Just over a year ago I covered a story in my video called The Gender War in Sweden about how Swedish feminists were so bored they were telling men how to sit on the bus. And I sourced a vice article from two thousand and twelve and it's the first one in the description below. Most people watching that video were shocked or outraged. So thought it was just plain stupid or funny.
But with New York's MTO launching an advertising campaign targeting the act of "Man Spreading," this issue is gaining traction in North America. Some people are calling this the New York City Nutcracker in honor of Christmas. What I find insulting about this attack on men on public transit is that it's targeting men in the first place. What about women?
Is it not possible that women could also behave the same way? Why is this an issue only facing men. And what about women that bring giant purses and put them on seats next to them? Or what about women that bring two, three or even four giant bags with them on public transit? How come the MTO in New York isn't targeting them? Why is this being called a male only issue? Why are men being attack for what is coined as chauvinistic sitting in Sweden. I believe the end goal idea behind New York's man spreading campaign is to get men to give up
their seats to women on public transit the same way that people give up their seats for the elderly or disable today. And the secondary purpose is to get men to ride the subway less or not at all by making it an uncomfortable place for men. Many women probably already expect men to get up and give up their seats for them when they enter a train or bus but they are probably afraid to ask men for this privilege. so they are instead making it uncomfortable for men to sit so they will be forced to stand. This type of male oppression is not unlike the segregation in the United States where blacks were once forced to sit at the back of the bus and there was only one way on and off the bus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNO40TCEBp4