When did manspreading become a thing?

They said: “Evidence of the word manspreading first registered on our tracking corpus in November 2014 when the campaign was first ‘teased’, and the word’s use shot into the stratosphere in December, when the campaign officially launched.” Why do men do it and is there a science behind it?

What is mansplaining and how do you do it?

Mansplaining is the contrarian, patronizing, told you so, you should know better, tone/speech of a MAN to a WOMAN or female bodied person without benefit of the doubt that the woman knows how to speak, stand up for herself, act, explain, etc.

What is the matching bookend of mansplaining and invisalization?

Invisibilization is the matching bookend of mansplaining. Mansplaining occurs when a man insists on his speech being listened to by women who already understand the subject. Invisibilization occurs when a woman’s speech in a subject she is expert on is completely ignored until a man restates it.

Is Russia doing enough to stop manspreading?

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. Anna warned her targets in a video: “This solution is 30 times more concentrated than the mixture used by housewives when doing the laundry.

Why is manspreading a cultural phenomenon?

This means that manspreading is a cultural phenomenon because regardless of one’s anatomy, one can choose not to practice it. But let’s look at the biology. McGill (in the interview and in the YouTube video linked in the interview) claims that narrow hips cause the ball-and-socket joint of the hip to pinch when sitting with knees together.

Is it rude to manspread on the subway?

If you have a narrow pelvis (whether or not you are male) and you regularly sit with your knees together, you will train your muscles and eventually your bones to be able to do so comfortably. Which means that on both cultural and biological grounds, dudebros and man-mans who manspread on the subway are just being rude.