Madrid bans ‘manspreading’ on public transport after feminist campaign

The Spanish capital’s state-owned public transport company, EMT Madrid, has introduced a new manspreading sign which forbids men from spreading their legs too wide while sitting on buses it operates.

“The mission of this new icon is to remember the need to maintain civic behavior and to respect the space of everyone on board the bus,” said the company, which operates over 200 bus lines, carrying more than 400 million passengers every year.



“This new information sign is similar to those that already exist in other transport systems around the world to stop people adopting a posture that makes others uncomfortable.”



EMT Madrid said that the decision had been made after consulting with the city equality office, and in response to a petition by a feminist collective Microcorrelatos Feministas who has petitioned to stop men from “invading personal space.

NYC subway fighting the good fight against manspreading.



“Just as women are taught to sit with our legs close together (as if we are holding something between our knees) manspreaders transmit an idea of power and territoriality, as if the space belongs to them,” read the petition, which gathered 11,000 virtual signatures.

New York was the first prominent city to campaign against manspreading on public transport in 2014, though the issue was reinvigorated in Spain this year when the left-wing CUP party demanded an end to what it called an “exhibition of machismo and a micro-aggression.”

Despite its triviality – or perhaps precisely because of it – manspreading has become a symbolic cultural debate, indicative of much wider issues.

The term ‘manspreading’ appeared on an illustrated Tumblr blog in 2013, but those campaigning against it say that the campaign against it seeks to address age-old issues of learned gender stereotypes, power structures and the role of women in public spaces.

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In Madrid hebben ze het licht gezien . Deze vormen van microagressie moeten keihard aangepakt worden .

Extreem rechte groeperingen ( voornamelijk witte cis males en vaak ook nog christelijk ) verschuilen zich achter '' biologie''. Maar zoals we allemaal weten is dit slechts een excuus om vrouwen verder te blijven onderdrukken

Onbegrijpelijk dat we anno 2017 dit gedrag in Nederland blijven tolereren.

Moeten we hier soortgelijke maatregelen nemen ?

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Op woensdag 14 juni 2017 15:22 schreef 44rdbei het volgende:
En als een dik iemand nou 2 plekken bezet, mag dat dan wel?

Dat valt onder fat shaming
En dat mag niet!!!!

#fitatanysize

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Op woensdag 14 juni 2017 15:13 schreef heywoodu het volgende:
Als er, zoals op het plaatje, niemand naast je zit zou dat toch gewoon moeten kunnen? Als er iemand naast je zit en je gaat je benen eens ff wijd uit elkaar zetten waarbij je over de 'grens' van de zitplaats komt ben je ook wel gewoon een asociale lul natuurlijk

Misschien is er aan andere reden voor mannen om zo met de benen wijd te gaan zitten ?