Manspreading

Screenshot taken from a feminist video showing exaggerated manspreading.

A contrived example of manspreading from Stockholm, Sweden.

A poster from an anti-manspreading campaign in Madrid, Spain.

Manspreading is a term used by feminists and others to shame men. It is claimed that men take up a disproportionately large space when when seated, particularly on public transport. Anti-feminists have pointed out that women often use disproportionate amounts of space when sitting with a handbag and often other bags as well, a practice called shebagging.

The term may have originated on a blog called Men Take Up Too Much Space On The Train which went offline between 20 January 2015 & 27 September 2018.

See Also

• Laila Laurel

External Links

• Archive of the original manspreading page
• Know Your Meme
• War on men - first arrests for manspreading on New York subway
• The Huffington Post
• Manspreading Shebagging
• Oxford University Press