‘Manspreading’ and other transit misbehaviours we could all do without
18 Replies to “Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Nannystate Scolds Into Your Car”
The Big Wormy Apple they Mayor is a jerk the city council is no better and crinimals run the streets like they do where the demacrats are in charge
It’s worse on a plane.
How about shopping bags
crop-dusting…..
Interesting comment thread at the link. The woman with epilepsy who stated “I can’t get a license, so how can I get around?” doesn’t seem to consider what would happen if the government didn’t impose a monopoly on taxi or bus services. I guess some things are only deemed as proper when the nanny-state has full control and union involvement in your daily life is mandatory. There’s a strong hint of this in cities that are trying to ban ride sharing apps (with internal security and ratings).
This idea is rampant in society. I was discussing with a friend how the union membership means there’s no incentive for good service (while waiting for a 15 minute overdue bus, after the previous one had left 5 minutes early), and a woman got mad at me. “Unions are needed for the good of the worker!” she started. After about 5 minutes she started to lose steam, I asked her which of the many reasons she had given me for unions to come into existence were not enshrined in law. She thought for a minute, looking increasingly baffled. She couldn’t name any. I asked her, given that everything she wanted is now present, why unions are still needed. It came down to her trusting unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats more than companies that will go out of business (if the company provides bad or unnecessary services). She was an academic or bureaucrat at a trades school, so it’s not surprising that she felt people like her (who I feel are unaccountable and divorced from the real world) should have more power.
The ad should say: “Travel in discomfort to forget your urban worries” .
When you consider that one of the chief objections we transit haters have against public transit is that it crowds people together so tightly that they feel their personal space has been violated, then “manspreading” is altogether understandable. They guy is putting up wards.
Nobody like to be a sardine in a can.
Don’t see any complaints about ‘womanspreading’ with a gaggle of shopping bags…
About the only thing being ‘spread’ is the fiction that this is an issue.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
Merry Christmas
“spreading one’s legs to occupy more than one’s fair share”
Oh, blow me. I mean it. That’s the only way you’re going to get a really good look at my natural endowment and what space is actually required so that I have ‘my fair share’.
Yes, men require more space for reasons of gender biology, just as women require more public toilets than men do. Get used to it, FemiNazis.
And YES, we get that you are misandrists who hate us just because we are men.
Don’t expect the ladies to understand this, though it is as Oz mention the phisiology of the mans regions.
On the other hand the picture in the article would be obscene, however you will notice the vehicle is empty, so what’s up with that.
Time for women to take back the transit system.
Ladies, organize a slut-ride.
You can all sit with your legs spread. That’ll show the men.
I have no issues with man-spreading on public transit unless there’s “that” guy that. The one who’s gone commando in his cut offs and the junk spills out. Hey buddy, put your little friend away, k?
True story! lol.
On the other hand, back in college days, while queuing up on a crowed bus to disembark for next stop, the bus hit a curb and I spun on the pole I was clinging to with one hand- losing my balance. Luckily I land on the leg of a manspreader who grabbed a hold of me as if it was planned thus preventing me and all my luggage (bookbags) from hitting the dirty slushy floor, so no harm done.
People need to lighten up. IF there was room restrictions on humungous breasts and the space they take up on the isles of a bus or other tight spaces…well then ya know – war on women!
PS.
This post is from one who wears a bra for a reason. So no, I’m not a women hater.
as long as they don’t ban SBDs!!!
Most men are physically bigger than most women, and hence take up more space. I’m a female of a certain age and of modest proportions (i.e., “little old lady”) and I’m okay with that. I’ve spent many decades being little and it’s the way God made me.
What bothers me on public transit are those who engage in criminal pursuits, such as stealing from or otherwise harming their fellow riders. This is especially a problem in major cities or in countries that don’t allow people to arm themselves for self defense. In addition, the public transit authority does not take responsibility for the safety of its passengers by posting armed guards in each bus or tram car. That makes us prey, not only to criminals, but also to random jihadis who want to get their 70 virgins by blowing up a car full of infidels.
You know, one of the great joys of being a man is that you can be uncouth and there’s not a g-dd@mn thing some harpy like the author of this Manspreading thing can do about it.
Yeah, I’m Manspreading. Whatcha going to do about it, bench?
Besides, I’ve seen the New York City subway. They’ve got a hell of a lot bigger issues to clear up than fat guys taking up space. Like Rodents of Unusual Size playing hockey on the platforms. We’re talking specimens over five pounds here, chasing each other around your ankles at rush hour. Also beggars of unusual intrusiveness. The kind you need to actually punch in the face before they back off.
TTC is trying hard, but they have a ways to go before they catch up to Noo Yawk for subway wildlife.
The NEW YORK TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY another bunch of buricratic idiots
Well it’s certainly never men that I see taking up 3 seats with themselves and their bags on my morning commute. Women now all seem to need a purse, some other sort of larger bag and then a re-usable shopping bag.
Hopefully it’s not racist, and they only target white guys.
The Big Wormy Apple they Mayor is a jerk the city council is no better and crinimals run the streets like they do where the demacrats are in charge
It’s worse on a plane.
How about shopping bags
crop-dusting…..
Interesting comment thread at the link. The woman with epilepsy who stated “I can’t get a license, so how can I get around?” doesn’t seem to consider what would happen if the government didn’t impose a monopoly on taxi or bus services. I guess some things are only deemed as proper when the nanny-state has full control and union involvement in your daily life is mandatory. There’s a strong hint of this in cities that are trying to ban ride sharing apps (with internal security and ratings).
This idea is rampant in society. I was discussing with a friend how the union membership means there’s no incentive for good service (while waiting for a 15 minute overdue bus, after the previous one had left 5 minutes early), and a woman got mad at me. “Unions are needed for the good of the worker!” she started. After about 5 minutes she started to lose steam, I asked her which of the many reasons she had given me for unions to come into existence were not enshrined in law. She thought for a minute, looking increasingly baffled. She couldn’t name any. I asked her, given that everything she wanted is now present, why unions are still needed. It came down to her trusting unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats more than companies that will go out of business (if the company provides bad or unnecessary services). She was an academic or bureaucrat at a trades school, so it’s not surprising that she felt people like her (who I feel are unaccountable and divorced from the real world) should have more power.
The ad should say: “Travel in discomfort to forget your urban worries” .
When you consider that one of the chief objections we transit haters have against public transit is that it crowds people together so tightly that they feel their personal space has been violated, then “manspreading” is altogether understandable. They guy is putting up wards.
Nobody like to be a sardine in a can.
Don’t see any complaints about ‘womanspreading’ with a gaggle of shopping bags…
About the only thing being ‘spread’ is the fiction that this is an issue.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
Merry Christmas
“spreading one’s legs to occupy more than one’s fair share”
Oh, blow me. I mean it. That’s the only way you’re going to get a really good look at my natural endowment and what space is actually required so that I have ‘my fair share’.
Yes, men require more space for reasons of gender biology, just as women require more public toilets than men do. Get used to it, FemiNazis.
And YES, we get that you are misandrists who hate us just because we are men.
Don’t expect the ladies to understand this, though it is as Oz mention the phisiology of the mans regions.
On the other hand the picture in the article would be obscene, however you will notice the vehicle is empty, so what’s up with that.
Time for women to take back the transit system.
Ladies, organize a slut-ride.
You can all sit with your legs spread. That’ll show the men.
I have no issues with man-spreading on public transit unless there’s “that” guy that. The one who’s gone commando in his cut offs and the junk spills out. Hey buddy, put your little friend away, k?
True story! lol.
On the other hand, back in college days, while queuing up on a crowed bus to disembark for next stop, the bus hit a curb and I spun on the pole I was clinging to with one hand- losing my balance. Luckily I land on the leg of a manspreader who grabbed a hold of me as if it was planned thus preventing me and all my luggage (bookbags) from hitting the dirty slushy floor, so no harm done.
People need to lighten up. IF there was room restrictions on humungous breasts and the space they take up on the isles of a bus or other tight spaces…well then ya know – war on women!
PS.
This post is from one who wears a bra for a reason. So no, I’m not a women hater.
as long as they don’t ban SBDs!!!
Most men are physically bigger than most women, and hence take up more space. I’m a female of a certain age and of modest proportions (i.e., “little old lady”) and I’m okay with that. I’ve spent many decades being little and it’s the way God made me.
What bothers me on public transit are those who engage in criminal pursuits, such as stealing from or otherwise harming their fellow riders. This is especially a problem in major cities or in countries that don’t allow people to arm themselves for self defense. In addition, the public transit authority does not take responsibility for the safety of its passengers by posting armed guards in each bus or tram car. That makes us prey, not only to criminals, but also to random jihadis who want to get their 70 virgins by blowing up a car full of infidels.
You know, one of the great joys of being a man is that you can be uncouth and there’s not a g-dd@mn thing some harpy like the author of this Manspreading thing can do about it.
Yeah, I’m Manspreading. Whatcha going to do about it, bench?
Besides, I’ve seen the New York City subway. They’ve got a hell of a lot bigger issues to clear up than fat guys taking up space. Like Rodents of Unusual Size playing hockey on the platforms. We’re talking specimens over five pounds here, chasing each other around your ankles at rush hour. Also beggars of unusual intrusiveness. The kind you need to actually punch in the face before they back off.
TTC is trying hard, but they have a ways to go before they catch up to Noo Yawk for subway wildlife.
The NEW YORK TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY another bunch of buricratic idiots
Well it’s certainly never men that I see taking up 3 seats with themselves and their bags on my morning commute. Women now all seem to need a purse, some other sort of larger bag and then a re-usable shopping bag.
Hopefully it’s not racist, and they only target white guys.