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Manspreading, or man-sitting, is a neologism used to describe a man sitting in public transport with legs wide apart, thereby covering more than one seat.[1][2] Both this posture and usage of the term "manspreading" have caused some internet criticism, and debates in the USA, UK, Turkey, and Canada.[3][4] The public debate began when an anti-manspreading campaign was started on the social media website Tumblr in 2013; the term appeared a year later.[5] The Oxford English Dictionary added it as a word in August 2015.[6][7] The term has been criticized as "a caricature of feminism" and has been juxtaposed with examples of women taking up excessive space in public spaces.[2][8]
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[hide]- 1Transit authority responses
- 2Criticism
- 3Social signalling
- 4References
- 5External links
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