Manspreading

[UnaCorda]

AIBU to want to take every inconsiderate manspreader I encounter on public transport and stick their knees in a vice?

AIBU to ask what a manspreader is?

The vice would be better deployed on other bits of them.

The vice would be better deployed on other bits of them.

Do you mean their simply enormous testicles that can only be accommodated by sitting with their legs at a 90 degree angle?

I don't accept any person invading my little amount of space on public transport. Just ask them to move their leg because you are uncomfortable, or push their leg back with your own to reclaim your space.

I don't accept any person invading my little amount of space on public transport. Just ask them to move their leg because you are uncomfortable, or push their leg back with your own to reclaim your space.

The vice would be better deployed on other bits of them.

Do you mean their simply enormous testicles that can only be accommodated by sitting with their legs at a 90 degree angle?

Hmm, something odd going on with MN this evening?

Oh, they are so utterly infuriatingly rude 😡

Oh, they are so utterly infuriatingly rude 😡

I hate it. It's so rude and inconsiderate.

But you have to be firm and ask them to move their leg away.

I told a man that if he absolutely had to sit in such a manner he really needed to see a GP. It was summer and I had a dress on and he had shorts and he kept rubbing his hairy calf against my leg. I was trapped in the inside seat of the train by him and I was jammed as far in as possible.

I had a go once at a manspreader. I asked him to contain himself in his seat and when he laughed, I did tell him that contrary to what his kind bedfellows had told him, they were not that big and he could keep his legs closed. He moved seats.

If I have the misfortune to end up sat next to a manspreader,I put my handbag on my knees and subtly apply pressure back against them. After a minute or so,they usually notice what I'm doing,and about 50% of the time do move their leg back. I've never had one say anything!

Not trying to derail the thread,but does anyone else get pissed off with people on buses with enormous backpacks? I get sick of having the damn things shoved in my face or wacking me round my (exceedingly tender arthritic) shoulders. The people wearing them seem to have no concept of how much they invade other passengers' space!

Knees in a vice and a clamp on their danglies, tbh.

some men are just kidding themselves, but we women know the truth !

It's cos their dick is so big

Right?

I find a very loud "can you stop touching me please" works well.

manga got it in one

Particularly annoying if he is a foot jiggler too. I had a man next to me on a plane put one foot in my already cramped legroom space, around the outside of the metal divider between the two seats in front of us.
I politely asked him if he’d mind moving his foot, and he did, but he looked beyond surprised.

Manspreaders are so rude. It is shitty behaviour.

Not only do they sit with their legs splayed out taking over half of the space for the next seats (on either side) and displaying themselves, they also often have a huge broadsheet newspaper that they proceed to spread out to its full width. Something like the Daily Torygraph Telegraph.

They are selfish, so yes to putting their bits in a vice.

Normally always on the tube - and I have a small rucksack, which I put on the floor between my knees so that my legs spread outwards, to exactly the dimensions of my seat.

Only one man has ever complained - and an incredulous look and raised eyebrow sorted that one out.

Sometimes I kick them in the ankle. Or womanspread.

If their knee is in your space, pop your handbag on it like a table.

Manspreading gives me the rage. I've never met anyone with a block and tackle large enough to require the exaggerated spread. Even a guy who was very aptly nicknamed horse could sit with his legs in a reasonable position.