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Thread: Time: Men Who Don’t Sit and Cross their Legs are “Manifestation of Patriarchal Privilege”

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    Time: Men Who Don’t Sit and Cross their Legs are “Manifestation of Patriarchal Privilege”

    http://thepunditpress.com/2014/11/23...hal-privilege/

    Quote Originally Posted by Pundit Press
    Time Magazine has declared that men who are able to sit and not cross their legs are a “manifestation of patriarchal privilege.”

    In an article called, “‘Man Spreaders,’ There’s No Excuse for Not Closing Your Legs on the Subway,” Time’s Etiquette section slammed men who do not sit with their legs together. But more than it being impolite and against etiquette, there is a much bigger problem with men like this: they are proliferating “the patriarchy.”

    The article explains that men sitting with their legs apart “is the most visual manifestation of patriarchal privilege and that is why it is especially angering.”

    ...The author, Brian Moylan, then states that people don’t like men with their legs apart because “everyone” thinks of the oppression of women: “It says to everyone, “I find this comfortable and I am a man so my comfort comes before all else in this entire universe and especially you.” That’s why people hate this.”



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    Well I don't think I needed another reason for sitting with my legs uncrossed, but I appreciate them giving me one.

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    Someone has way too much time on their hands and spends an inordinate amount of time analyzing strangers by their crotch.
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    I'd like to smash Brian's face for being a $#@!.
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    Brian Moylan seems to have a fixation on other mens' balls.

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    What the $#@! is wrong with people? This is just retarded. Who thinks of this $#@!? Seriously.
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    If New York City is such a wonderful place, as I've heard said so often, because there are so many wonderful things to do there, why is it that from Seinfeld to this to about everything else I've seen from there in the last eighty years they all seem to spend all their time dreaming up more and more reasons to hate and despise each other?

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    I'm outraged over the obvious racism of the author.






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    Quote Originally Posted by roho76 View Post
    What the $#@! is wrong with people? This is just retarded. Who thinks of this $#@!? Seriously.
    Owe you some rep when I get off the mobile.

    Agree 1,000%. WTF indeed. I might - might - entertain such thoughts while I'm out clearing brush out back, but then I'd probably just laugh and get back to thinking about what I'm going to plant in the spring.

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    Quote Originally Posted by specsaregood View Post
    Well I don't think I needed another reason for sitting with my legs uncrossed, but I appreciate them giving me one.
    That.

    Hadn't really thought about much, but now, well, count on it every time I sit down.

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    I always sit with my legs crossed. Well...most of the time. Hm. It's just more comfortable to me. Scwewy...

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    It's very strange to witness how the obsession over minuscule details has resonance across the culture. WTF is happening to us. Are these ideas "popular" simply because they are so outrageous? It seems like a lot of people have a strong desire to be the ultimate hero of the day -- The Victim -- regardless of the trumped up trifles and mental gymnastics it takes to get there.

    This particular case is still not quite as crazy as the movement to force men sit down to pee. Sweden and Taiwan had politicians who actually wanted to legislate that policy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by milgram View Post
    It's very strange to witness how the obsession over minuscule details has resonance across the culture. WTF is happening to us. Are these ideas "popular" simply because they are so outrageous? It seems like a lot of people have a strong desire to be the ultimate hero of the day -- The Victim -- regardless of the trumped up trifles and mental gymnastics it takes to get there.

    This particular case is still not quite as crazy as the movement to force men sit down to pee. Sweden and Taiwan had politicians who actually wanted to legislate that policy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by milgram View Post
    It's very strange to witness how the obsession over minuscule details has resonance across the culture. WTF is happening to us. Are these ideas "popular" simply because they are so outrageous? It seems like a lot of people have a strong desire to be the ultimate hero of the day -- The Victim -- regardless of the trumped up trifles and mental gymnastics ti takes to get there.
    The fact that they can turn anything into an issue shows how much power they have over the culture. And they will have thousands of sheep lined up to defend them too.
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    You can still sit with your legs "together" without having to actually cross them. No one crosses their legs on the subway, it's harder to balance that way with the subway car constantly starting and stopping. I just keep my legs in front of me. Guys who spread their legs wide though, I find that to be annoying and stupid.
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    Less than a decade away from yet another "offence" that is worthy of a thumping and revenue generation for the state.

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    This "writer" spun the story to get a visceral reaction, and hence, an audience.

    The MTA (subway bureaucrats) is undertaking a campaign to get people to consolidate space while riding, which is pretty much an ongoing issue for everything in New York. People spreading out is a way to claim your space in a cramped city. NYC residents do it in all kinds of ways, including using your belongings (e.g., suitcase or backpack) to create space between you and the sardine next to you.

    A bigger issue than tall guys spreading their knees is an ever increasing fat population. I lived in NYC in the 1990s. I think the trains were made in the 1970s-1980s, and they're still used today. The seats are the same size today, but waistlines keep expanding.

    So, the writer of the story took a very mundane subway campaign and added colorful language. He highly exaggerated a single aspect to get exactly the emotional response--and audience--that he wants. He still sounds like a fairy feminist, but he does know how to manipulate a reaction.
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    So look ladies; I really love you women, but can you please practice a little public etiquette? Elevators aren't the most comfortable of spaces, but please stop using your matriarchal privilege at the expense of everyone else. We all know that childbirth causes your hips to part like the red sea, but do you really have to eat mounds of chocolate and pie to exacerbate your generous girth? Rubbing your hip bone close to my privates is a little disconcerting.

    Can you very ample, but of course, delicate ladies also be careful when you turn in such a cramped space like an elevator? The considerable breast is certainly one of God's greatest creations, but brushing your oh-so-fleshy substance into my arm upon turning sometimes throws me for a loop. I very much appreciate the gesture, but sometimes I am thinking about my upcoming meeting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NorthCarolinaLiberty View Post
    So look ladies; I really love you women, but can you please practice a little public etiquette? Elevators aren't the most comfortable of spaces, but please stop using your matriarchal privilege at the expense of everyone else. We all know that childbirth causes your hips to part like the red sea, but do you really have to eat mounds of chocolate and pie to exacerbate your generous girth? Rubbing your hip bone close to my privates is a little disconcerting.

    Can you very ample, but of course, delicate ladies also be careful when you turn in such a cramped space like an elevator? The considerable breast is certainly one of God's greatest creations, but brushing your oh-so-fleshy substance into my arm upon turning sometimes throws me for a loop. I very much appreciate the gesture, but sometimes I am thinking about my upcoming meeting.
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    Now I have a mental image of the author of this article being in a subway, seeing some guy with his legs spread too far apart, going up to him and smashing his knees together. what the...
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    The "men" who cross their legs are probably sitzpinklers too

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    Quote Originally Posted by milgram View Post
    I Are these ideas "popular" simply because they are so outrageous
    They are "popular" because there's a whole lotta money behind them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crashland View Post
    Now I have a mental image of the author of this article being in a subway, seeing some guy with his legs spread too far apart, going up to him and smashing his knees together. what the...
    Somebody that makes these types of complaints such as the author of this piece don't have the balls to try a stunt like that.

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    thats so patriarchal! he should hide those cheek pads

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