A campaign to end "manspreading" has unfurled in Madrid, Spain, in a bid to shame men into keeping their legs shut on public transport.
The campaign is being swiftly rolled out by local authorities following a petition run by a feminist group Mujeres en Lucha and launched on Monday (local time).
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.
NY 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". In fact, official signs are about to go up on public transportation.
The council also pointed out that other antisocial behaviour was being targeted in the new notices, including putting feet on seats and listening to loud music on headphones.
"The MAN part of the word is out of order".
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It is not a question of bad education, but that just as women have [been taught] to sit with our legs close together (as if we had to hold something between our knees) men have transmitted an idea of hierarchy and territoriality, as if the space belonged to them.
Along with signs for "no smoking" or 'no littering, ' commuters in Madrid will soon see a new unfamiliar one: No manspreading.
Madrid is the latest city to ban manspreading but you may be asking yourself what exactly is manspreading?
If you plan on traveling to Madrid and a number of other busy metropolitan, keep those legs closed unless you want to get manshamed.
Authorities in Mexico City took an unusual approach to teaching men a lesson in March by installing a "penis seat" on an underground train.
The seat, moulded to mimic the shape of a man's body and genitalia, was labelled for men only and accompanied by a sign that said: "It is annoying to travel this way, but not compared to the sexual violence women suffer in their daily commutes".
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