How do cultural backgrounds influence perceptions of appropriate space-taking behavior?

: the act or practice by a man of sitting with the legs spread wide apart (as in a public seating area) in a way that intrudes on the space of others. When a man sits down without having his legs so tightly together he cuts off the blood supply to his genitals and his balls drop off. James sat down on the ... Aug 5, 2017 ... This new text focuses on challenging the claim that manspreading is the result of skeletal anatomy (as claimed by the headline of the article in question) Apr 15, 2023 ... The man next to me on this flight is not only manspreading but took off his shoes AND HIS SOCKS. There is no god. I looked up manspreading and it is exactly what you would think, right? KATY: Yep. DANI: You're sitting on a public transportation or in a folding chair in a ... Aug 14, 2018 ... It comes from a recent heightened awareness of a phenomenon that I'll call literary man-spreading — the tendency of male writers to take up more ... "Manspreading" or "man-sitting" is a pejorative neologism referring to the practice of men sitting in public transport with legs wide apart, thereby covering ... Jan 23, 2016 ... When a man is seated close to another person but spreads his legs or arms in such away that reduces the amount of space the person next him has. Dec 12, 2015 ... Evidence of the word manspreading first registered on our tracking corpus in November 2014 when the campaign was first 'teased', and the word's ... Aug 27, 2018 ... One idea, featured recently on NPR, suggests changing the way we sit, sticking the butt out and holding the spine straight.