Feminist Given Award for Designing Chair Which Intentionally Makes Men Feel Uncomfortable

[escapee]

IN old movies, as well as in high society etiquette, men cross their legs when they sit. Feminists look like peasants to focus on man spreading. Female spreading is acceptable too. Females regularly spread it when they wear skirt.

 

[SummerMadness]

Manspreading is not science, it’s simply people trying to justify inconsiderate behavior because of getting angry over hearing that one’s behavior is not so considerate.

 

[zippy2006]

Manspreading is not science, it’s simply people trying to justify inconsiderate behavior because of getting angry over hearing that one’s behavior is not so considerate.

Still working on that elusive motive, I see. As it turns out, some well-informed scientists say that science does play a role in so-called 'manspreading.'

 

[DamianWarS]

Damain, I do not understand how you can see this art project as a "GENDER-NEUTRAL" design when there was so much in the OP and referred link which clearly evidenced that the intent WAS clearly a Gender-Specific design, for the chairs, and a GENDER-SPECIFIC intent for the message which these chairs conveyed. Amazing. The background and intent for the design and message the project was intended to convey WAS clearly NOT GENDER-NEUTRAL. Going by your name it could be that your native tongue is not English and maybe something was lost in the translation. If after reading the background material here you need more explanation please let me know. I will try to help.

I'm not saying the project in the OP is gender-neutral (clearly it is gender targeted) I'm saying existing chair design is gender-neutral and based on the traditional design there is nothing to fix.

 

[Monksailor]

Manspreading is not science, it’s simply people trying to justify inconsiderate behavior because of getting angry over hearing that one’s behavior is not so considerate.

Inconsiderate.....most men (and women) do not even think about how they sit being offensive to another. They sit in a manner which is naturally comfortable, in most cases. Just as a guy spreads his legs for comfort, a woman could be spreading her legs with a skirt on cause it is cooler (temp-wise) and she wants to keep herself "aired-out."

Most, if not all, people are inconsiderate if you haven't noticed. I have been treated inconsiderately and even with contempt when trying to be considerate for women when holding a door open for them. People blatantly and inconsiderately ignore the hardship all of those people who have to squeeze by them in the pew when they consistently claim the first seat in the pew and don't share the hardship by NOT always picking the first seat when they could have easily slid in farther and shared that first seat by the aisle. In over 40 yrs of going to mostly pew seating churches I only heard that inconsiderable act addressed once, but effectively. The pompous orator TV preacher in the black and grey robe with a red spot and a crystal chandeliered church, I think that is what they called it, had a brother who also preached but from a different platform in more than one way. He addressed it very succinctly, clearly explaining how inconsiderate it was. He advised that whenever one turns to enter a pew that they slide in past the first seat and fill from the middle out. The light turns green and some nut in front of you ignores the light and abandons their driver duties by texting on their cell or getting another burger out and set up or turning to the back seat and scolding children or engaged with someone in the front seat and causes the light to trip to red prematurely by no activity over the sensor and there are ten cars behind you on your bumper. The person going into the store right in front of you lets the door slam into you instead of holding it a split second longer for your hand to take hold, SOMEONE ACCUSES YOU OF BEING INTENTIONALLY INCONSIDERATE BECAUSE OF THE WAY YOU SIT WHEN COMFORT WAS YOUR ONLY CONSIDERATION, and on and on. I am sure most everyone here can quickly give several acts of lack of consideration by others. If we addressed and created laws for every act of being inconsiderate nothing else would get accomplished by humanity. Life would be a joke.

Being inconsiderate toward others can be an intentional/conscious or unintentional/unconscious thing. So how do you prove intent or motive??? Do you REALLY know what they were thinking???

Just maybe that is one of the reasons why Jesus. our Lord, taught us to forgive and not get all bent out of shape.

By the way, the word "manspreading" was created by grudge-bearing feminists and was first entered in the Oxford Dictionary in 2015 from what I read yesterday online in another article on this sad event. Interesting.

 

[dms1972]

This seems stupid, and unworthy of an award, for a number of reasons - firstly taking up too much space is not an issue on individual stools / chairs, it only becomes an issue on bus seats, and small sofas. Secondly it is stupid because men can just plonk themselves on the wide seat if they are there first!! And thirdly its just stupid per se.

 

[SoldierOfTheKing]

A chair that encourages women to spread their legs...

Hmmm....

 

[Monksailor]

A chair that encourages women to spread their legs...

Hmmm....

And feminists, at that! But you know that is how they have overpowered men in many situations; bait, entice and wait for him to make the cultural "first move" and BAM! sexual harassment. Another one down.

 

[redleghunter]

Western society is a huge laugh these days.

 

[Monksailor]

Western society is a huge laugh these days.

Your profile shows you from and part of Western Society so I would suggest that that huge laugh is short-lived as you realize that you are part of it, as I. It is SAD. And people wonder why others are so sexually confused today. I don't. It is satan's primary objective to destroy God's design, he succeeded with Adam and Eve, and thought he did with Jesus but the joke was on him as Jesus's death was God, the Father's, way to "fix" the damage done with Adam and Eve. But because salvation is an individual or personal choice to receive that which is freely available to all and NOT a blanket pronouncement for all humanity satan can and is doing much damage by confusing and deceiving and distorting and blinding minds in order to thwart God's Will that ALL would be saved and come to repentance (2 Pt. 3:9), and be with Him for all eternity.

 

[dms1972]

IN old movies, as well as in high society etiquette, men cross their legs when they sit. Feminists look like peasants to focus on man spreading. Female spreading is acceptable too. Females regularly spread it when they wear skirt.

Both chairs are likely to draw the ire from both sexes - forcing either men or women to sit in one way only is not going to go down well. The designer possibly wasn't being entirely serious, in the end it can also be how its reported as much as anything that provokes people.

Both men and women can be seen sitting with legs crossed at informal as well as formal events, not just in high society.

 

[Sistrin]

The first real problem with this title is that is made up out of thin air...

All titles are made up out of thin air, crafted to allude to or indicate the primary article content. In that regard the title of this thread is quite effective.

...the second is arguing that implying manspreading is the comfortable way to sit and not taking up an adjacent seat is uncomfortable.

Manspreading comprises a comfortable manner in which to sit, not a social statement. Provided of course one is not living their life in total fear of ever possibly in any fashion ever ever ever offending someone else.

Spreading your legs to take up multiple seats is simply rude and inconsiderate.

Multiple seats? We are not talking about the size of someone's backside here, we are talking about sitting in a fashion where your knees are about a foot apart. The fact this may cause some feminist to rage in self-righteous anger isn't worth any more consideration than the time it takes to spit.

 

[mindlight]

"Created as part of her final-year project entitled “A Solution for Manspreading", Laurel also created a second chair intended for women which uses a small piece of wood in the centre of the seat to encourage female sitters to rest with her legs parted, allowing them to take up more space."
She says,"“I designed and created these chairs in order to identify and challenge problems surrounding the act of sitting that might potentially be more gender specific, such as ‘man-spreading’.”
So her solution was to force men to crunch their legs together while pinching something in there AND making a chair for women which forced them to spread their legs which is unacceptable for a man who has a good reason to give things room? WOW! And this, a final year creation project for Brighton University. It is possible that some men do spread their legs too far apart, BUT SOME LADIES DO, TOO! And men have something in there which needs room. Aren't women and men's hips created differently due to necessities of childbirth? Is this feminism gone crazy or the norm?
"As well as receiving plenty of praise for her design, Laurel’s work has been presented with the Belmond Award for emerging talent."
"As part of her prize, Laurel will be commissioned to create a product for the hotel and leisure company (who gave her the above mentioned award) and receive a £1,000 bursary."
Full article may be seen at: Feminist who created chair to stop ‘manspreading’ wins design award

Foolishness sponsored by idiots. A better design would define an equal space and boundary for male or female leg spreading and leave it as a choice how one sits. Or we could just leave the tried and tested design of a chair as it is.

 

[bekkilyn]

Multiple seats? We are not talking about the size of someone's backside here, we are talking about sitting in a fashion where your knees are about a foot apart. The fact this may cause some feminist to rage in self-righteous anger isn't worth any more consideration than the time it takes to spit.

A foot apart? That's not "manspreading". "Manspreading" (whether male or female) is when your *feet* are maybe a foot or usually more apart and then you have your legs so relaxed that the knees are as wide apart as possible. While your rear end may only be taking up one seat, your knees are so far apart that they are either blocking the chairs on both sides so that someone else can't sit in those chairs (unless they also want to sit on your legs) or they are taking up so much room on both sides so that if there are people sitting in those chairs, they are forced to scrunch their legs uncomfortably together to accommodate your comfort at their expense.

This particular issue really isn't about how people sit, but about how men are raised to feel naturally entitled to take up space while women are raised to take up as little space as possible and feel entitled to no space at all, and these chair designs are intended to draw attention to *that* issue and the social consequences of it. That fact that we have been discussing it for multiple posts now would imply that it worked as intended, regardless of whether or not people agree.

The fact that a real hotel decided to actually use the chairs seems stupid and misses the point of the experiment.

 

[Sistrin]

Thank you for proving my point.

 

[brinny]

Gender design aside, that looks like one of the most uncomfortable "chairs" I have ever seen.

Not sure this is sadistic or masochistic.....

either way, "torture" devices come to mind.

Looks like she missed her "century".

 

[redleghunter]

Not sure this is sadistic or masochistic.....

either way, "torture" devices come to mind.

Looks like she missed her "century".

Now if a Jihadist detainee were forced to sit in one of those seats...The ACLU would be barking.

 

[Gigimo]

Nothing wrong with that chair that a hatchet and 30 seconds wouldn't cure.

And I have the perfect place to put that kindling

 

[dms1972]

Feminists who think men are taking too much space up, and cramping their style?

You want to be able to take up more space?

Here you go:

 

[Sistrin]

Manspreading is not science, it’s simply people trying to justify inconsiderate behavior because of getting angry over hearing that one’s behavior is not so considerate.

Yeah, because they are all alike, right?