manspreading

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14:56 Apr 4, 2020
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English term or phrase: manspreading
Definition from Oxford:
The practice whereby a man, especially one traveling on public transportation, adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat or seats.

Example sentence(s):
  • A student has faced an "unpleasant backlash" over her award-winning chair designed to stop "manspreading". BBC News
  • Anna Dovgalyuk, 20, has started splashing a mixture of water and bleach on the groins of men with their legs spread too far on the St Petersberg metro. The law student embarked on the one-woman crusade to stop manspreading and has accused men in her native Russia of "gender aggression" but says the country is not doing enough the tackle the problem. The Sun
  • Whilst it's most certainly not the politest of ways to sit oneself, does the act of manspreading really legitimise anybody to define space as “inherently gendered”, as Mic subsequently did? Is it actually a case of men monopolising a woman’s space out of intrinsic entitlement? Or does science play a bigger part than we might think? Independent
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4 +1rozvalování neboli manspreading
Mira Dornakova


  

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2 days 26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
rozvalování neboli manspreading


Definition from Aktuálně:
cestující, v nejnebezpečnější verzi kus chlapa v plném voze, si udělá pohodlí tak, že usedne s nohama roztaženýma daleko za vymezený prostor

Example sentence(s):
  • Mužům, kteří sedí s roztaženýma nohama v dopravních prostředcích, vyhlásilo město New York boj. Dopravní podniky rozjely kampaň, která má "manspreading", což je k tomuto účelu nově vytvořené slovo, učinit konečně přítrž. - Týden  
Mira Dornakova
Czech Republic
Local time: 16:51
Native speaker of: Native in CzechCzech

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