I've just played Manspread Skittles on the train. Guess how many points I scored

[GunpowderGelatine]

Just got on a train at the opposite end where I needed to be (that's where I was standing on the platform and I panic in case I don't hop on in time so I just got on) and walked through 7 carriages before I got to mine. I carried my little suitcase in front of me, and came across a number of manspreaders who seemed to occupy the half the aisle (no exaggeration) with their knees (only once did I see them sat next to someone). Note - no women were doing this. I decided to have me a game of Manspread Skittles (just carried on walking meaning my suitcase knocked into their knees).

Anyone likes to guess:

1. How many men I knocked in total over 7 carriages and
2. How many said sorry for being in my way?

*endeavour

*reflect
I typed so fast autoincorrect got me!

You made the thread about me when you asked questions and where rude and used my name.
Stop blaming others for your failings, stop blaming men for the world's bad manners, stop being entitled, rude and nasty individuals and maybe people won't do it back to you.

No thanks, some of us will keep calling out misogynistic bullshit when we see it, and leave it to women like you to be meek and mild and ever so 'umble and apologetic to the menfolk for daring to need space too.

I'm 6'2". In many train seats there just isn't the room to put my legs in front of me.

user69 no one made this thread about you. You butted in and now won't butt out when PPs are saying IT ISNT ABOUT YOU!!

@mysterian totally get that it's difficult. I'm almost 6' as a woman and my son is 6'2" long legs each. But we draw them in when people need to pass

To the previous poster who suggested it's because of the men having to let air get to their balls or something - I don't think so - I once moved to the opposite seat when a man I'd politely asked reused to move his legs to give me room. (He said 'It ain't gonna happen')

A much larger man sat next to Manspreader at the next station: Manspreader's legs snapped shut. Reader I smirked.

So the moral of this story is #NotAllMen?
Right?

Ffs.

Sorry for withdrawing post, it was a repeat as WiFi was playing up.

I'm not sure I understand anickels post /point?

To all the women with the tall Nigel's - tell them when people are coming on the train to tuck their legs in for 2 minutes. My ex was 6'5" and managed not to Manspread everywhere. I'm not saying excuse me 27 to spare their feelings, tell them to keep alert.

27 times or 60

Because tall or not I'm not the one deliberately getting in peoples way, and TBH I've spent too much of my life simpering and saying please to men when I'm not at fault and I CBA anymore.

That bold should have read:

What's wrong with saying excuse me 27 times or 60?

It seems like you were a total pain in the arse walking through 7 carriages with a bloody suitcase

Well I would have levitated my suitcase but I kept saying "Wingardium Lev-ee-oh-sar" instead of Wingardium Leviosa and fucked the spell up

Theres no excuse for not moving to let someone past it should be common courtesy. However I hate the term manspreading why should is it so bad for anyone to spread themselves out for comfort the seats are tiny and after all. After all its far less inconvenient than people who take up seats with their hand luggage.

Why say revolting things - it makes you no better than the people you critcise.

Why should I be nice about someone who called me a stupid bitch?

Funny how no-one has mentioned the amounts of handbags on empty seats in this thread.

Because it's not the same thing. The same thing would be leaving your handbag in the aisle, which I've never seen personally

its weird someone purposefully slamming a suitcase into people and then expecting them to apologise

I didn't slam anything, I just walked and happened to bash whatever was in my way.

Reminder: don't leave your body part in the middle of a place specifically and only designed as a walkway and be upset if people walk into it.

I'm pretty sure it's to do with needing more space for balls and the whole 'pack

A small opening of the legs is forgivable - no one's cock is big enough that they need to position their legs at a full 180 degrees

Where are all of these people who are constantly alert and aware of their surroundings? I had a splint fitted to my leg a few weeks ago and had to get the tube home. 10 stops it took for me to get a seat. Not one person noticed a whopping great big brace on my leg. And that was.men and women.

A small opening of the legs is forgivable - no one's cock is big enough that they need to position their legs at a full 180 degrees

180 degrees? Was it a train full of olympic gymnasts?

*Nope - The walking at you like you don't exist and expecting you to get out of the way!

I've only just realised and it's shocking. Just jaw dropping.*

I have started to realise that I step out of the way of men in the pavement every single time, even into the road. I'm going to start playing patriarchy chicken now. See what happens

The "I'm too tall" thing is interesting, if you sit very upright you have to be considerably above average to end up with your knees pressed against the seat Infront.
As a female who is above the male average hight I have however discovered if you sit on the back of your arse, rather than tensely upright, you don't appear fit at all well. Crossed legs throw a foot across the next seat, or into the isle. Uncrossed is hilariously spreadish and moving your legs around at all reqires quite comic contortions. But you do have to do this slump.
I have utilized this after having been pointedly and overtly expected to make space by men on too many occasions to count. it is quite easy to flip your pelvis forward and do a sad " Oh dear, I don't seem to fit" (well not enough to let both of us do this)
I guess I do it now because most train journeys I take are quite long, and even as a train only just starts to fill up I'm inevitably the first person in a carriage that gets sat next to. Which I think is another bit of prejudice.
Lone men always being the last.

This thread is illuminating.
I fly a lot with my young son - twice a month?
When the time comes for the inevitable nappy change, I dread walking to the back of the plane because Jesus, it’s just constant knees and feet in the way.
I know that space, especially on low cost airlines, is practically non existent, but to look up and realise that somebody carrying somebody else is coming down the aisle and that there’s a need to move would be amaaaazing.

And yes. Always men. On Monday we fly again. I’m going to see if they’re all tall men. I’ve never had to politely ask a woman to move her foot or leg.

Thank you OP. And I might go out especially today to play PC.

As a London commuter I see patriarchy chicken & manspreading every day.

I played this game last night. London overground trains have a raised fabric panel for perching on near the doors. It fits either a couple who can smoosh together, or two very small people. It categorically doesn’t fit two ordinary sized people.

I was perching, minding my own business, when a bloke perched beside me & gently leaned on me to fit his butt on the perch. He was also supporting his weight against my gym bag sitting on the ground. After a minute of being very fed up of this I pointedly hung my large handbag between the two of us, forcing him off balance and to give me back a couple of inches (the same trick is good for manspreaders!)

For those who ask, well why didn’t you ask him to move? How is this going to end well for me given he’s so happy to intrude my personal space from the outset? Why do I need to ask him to be less of a selfish knob?

There was a (normal looking) bloke in the same position on the other side of the train and no one, male or female, tried to share his perch.

665 that’s my experience as well. I’m not super tall (5’9”) but I have unusually long thigh bones. I don’t fit into a standard economy seat if I sit on the back of my arse, but I have also noticed that I have no problems fitting in a plane seat if I sit back into the seat.

Also I call bullshit on men often being too long legged. The most commonly sold trouser inseam is 32” for men, the same size taken by average to tall women.

Got on the train the other day and there was a man sitting with his legs loosely crossed, taking up all the space belonging to the only empty seat opposite.

I contemplated asking him to move, but thought why should I fucking have to. Besides, being British I’d only end up apologising for existing.

Anyhoo, I just sat in it. It was enormously liberating. It’s the first time I’ve ever done anything like this and I now know it has a name. Where does patriarchy chicken come from?