Used in a sentence: "Oh how I sometimes miss the joys of public transport (after all, I was a Chicagoan for over a dozen years recently) -- including the latest controversy happening in subway cars in major urban locations apparently even worthy of a public shaming campaign: the act of man-spreading."
Little did I know exactly how controversial the topic is. Police have been accused of using man-spreading violations to unduly arrest two Latinos in NYC. Feminists have stated that man-spreading is all about male privilege. Anti-feminists have accused feminists of disrespecting the need for testicles to breathe, which can be a possible reason that one engages in man-spreading. Scientists have even weighed in to defend man-spreading after studying the shoulder to hip ratios of both sexes. The interwebs are now full of google images of random gentlemen (often very tall, and usually wearing short shorts for greater effect) who were caught man-spreading. (As the accompanying image shows [not a crotch shot], man-spreading is just one of the issues currently being managed on the subway [me, personally, I like the notice that riders should refrain from practicing stripper routines on the poles]).
Be careful out there. Be on the lookout for wanton man-spreading. If you see something, unspread something ... because *this* is the world in which we live.
MAN-SPREADERS ARRESTED:
http://jezebel.com/at-least-two-subway-riders-have-been-arrested-for-man-s-1707543734
MAN-SPREADING, 'CAUSE SCIENCE, YO!:
http://mic.com/articles/125659/men-have-to-manspread-because-of-science-says-mansplaining-scientist#.TuffGEGJK
LET THE MAN-SPREADING SHAMING BEGIN:
http://mentakingup2muchspaceonthetrain.tumblr.com/
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