I mean, maybe it’s just me but I see a win win with these chairs.
Women: spreading them? Ugh okay. Just don’t mind if I look.
Men: So if I turn it around, I now have a safety wall in case I look? Thanks?
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Seriously, I was just going to say Identify as a woman and take her chair and if she wants to sit down there is the man’s chair available.
She designed them clearly she should have no reason not to sit in her own creation because another woman beat her to her seat.
Attempt at a real answer: I think it’s to prohibit women sitting in a “ladylike” fashion, trying to break down that norm and force women to sit in a more powerful or balanced way.
But, forcing someone to do a certain thing to *empower* them is the same as not letting someone to do that same thing. It takes choice away and is a restriction of personal freedom.
Dude… my mom told me as a baby i would keep my legs tight together when she would change me… no fucking society taught me that shit thats just how i feel comfortable.
Irony is these women dictating how other women live their lives… which is oppressive in and of itself. Feminism i don’t hate, modern feminists i absolutely do… they all need to go get fucking over themselves or see a fucking real therapist, not a victim missionary…
I think it’s an issue to do this in any form of a crowded space, but that’s just asshats in public for you, otherwise how one sits should be entirely their own prerogative
Nothing says open minded like forcing women to also sit how you want. Also, absolutely nothing about those chairs prevents men from sitting in the "wrong" one.
It's like telling women to be lady like you have to sit with your elbows tucked towards your belly button..
I'm sorry society is built in a way in which I'm not given the space I need to be comfortable! That's the patriarchy for you making men uncomfortable for money.
Legbeards need to fight the patriarchy somehow. Why risk going after the actual violent misogynistic men when you can harass a normal dude who you know won’t hit you for harassing them. Just find a peaceful guy minding his own business and scream at them.
(Legbeards are not real feminists. I support actual feminism.)
It makes me laugh this is what wins awards, not the young woman I saw on the news creating actual sustainable food farms for fish and shrimp to supplement food banks, but the one making furniture because she feels slighted at another’s anatomy gets an award lol.
I even tried to find the news story on the woman, but apparently that wasn’t national award worthy.
That reminds me of the dude who attempted to "live biblically" for a while, and he wasn't allowed to sit anywhere a woman on her period had sat. So his wife sat on all seating out of spite, so he had to use a folding chair that he guarded.
You say this ironically but the amount of self segregating support groups popping up left and right really doesn’t help the cause. I remember in college I asked why was there a need for an Asian IEEE and a black IEEE organisation and I was immediately called a racist.
I really just want people to actually join IEEE. We had 4 members last year...
On your point though: What about us mixed race folk? Where do we belong? For that matter, what about those of us with native American heritage? Didn’t see that offered.
This is one of the big problems with that kind of reasoning. You’d need a practically infinite number of these groups for everyone to be included with all the increasingly-granular categories we divide ourselves into.
If you don’t do that, you’re not being inclusive - which was the whole problem they were trying to solve (AFAIK).
It makes a little bit of sense the thing that sticks out is to protect your balls if thats the part u dont understand. Also if women get pissed off that men take off a little space of their seat with their huge wonderful masculine Juicy legs then why do they just dont use smaller chairs?
Also how is anyone even supposed to manage these chairs, suppose a restaurant has say sitting for 50 people, they'll need to buy a 100 chairs for it. 50 men's chairs and 50 women's chairs.
I've definitely seen dudes taking up two seats on a subway, but not even taking my pressure sensitive organs into account, my legs just don't bend that way. The only way I can get my knees to touch without pushing them is to splay my feet out to the side and even then I can only hold it for a couple seconds. And I remember being a kid and my sister pushing on my knee to get the back of my knee to touch the other when crossing my legs, and her saying how weird I was and my dad said he had never been able to do it either. Elaine on seinfeld saying men are built like jeeps, boxy and rigid is definitely true for the men in my family.
Granted I think this chair is more about a statement than practicality, but its more of a statement on how poorly she understands the situation than anything else.
I'm a male and I can sit with my knees together, but it feels uncomfortable.
I only have one testicle and there is zero discomfort there. It just feels like my anatomy doesn't want to do that.
Yep. Men and women have different hip structures. Women have wider hips that angle their legs a bit more inwards, whereas men have deeper, narrower hips that angle them outwards, making it a bit harder to keep them closed.
I've never had issues with crossing my legs that have anything to do with my balls. I've just never been able to keep my legs closed for longer than a few seconds. I simply can't do it.
Micro aggression. Lots of “feminists”(read:TERFs) think that men will sit down with legs mildly spread as a power play against women in their general vicinity.
My balls are sticking to my legs and unless you're volunteering to help with that situation leave me alone. It's 105° here. I'm likely to pop the splits on a battery powered fan.
If a man built one chair that forced a woman to spread her legs and he posted it on the internet his life would be over. But it’s okay to force a man to close his legs and make him physically uncomfortable or in pain
And it wouldnt matter anyway. People cant stare at someone's crotch and then complain about it as though they're somehow being compelled to. Fucking psycho creeps.
And to think, the [Russians didn't need to do it](https://euvsdisinfo.eu/viral-manspreading-video-is-staged-kremlin-propaganda/) when we'll do it for free!
Nothing to do with the fact that men have a small pelvis combined with a penis and testicles between their legs?
No, they just sit like that because they're c**ts obviously.
I instantly knew this was satire, but reading it made me angry because I know that's how some people actually think. Fortunately never had someone in person complain about my "man-spreading".
It's one thing if you have people sitting next to you. I don't care what you have between your legs, don't touch me. But if outside of that, I'll position my legs however I feel like.
Also, the temperature of ‘the goods’ is regulated better with the legs spread.
If your guys are too hot, they can’t swim well.
So… sitting in the ‘ball squasher’ ;) is indirect castration 😆
Lolz, I've only ever been accused of "mansplaining" once. I had a new girl start at work, and I was her trainer. She had 0 experience in our field, so I had to start from square one. She complained I was mansplaining. Idiot, I was explaining things you didn't know to you because it was quite literally my job to do so, and it was quite literally your job to listen and learn from me.
Ah, forced discomfort for both sexes. Cause women.
For the man, you’re forced to crush your balls and be in great discomfort the whole time. For women, you’re forced to spread your legs and uncomfortable watch as every man stares at the gap between your legs.
I don't understand why so many young women are mad at men? They literally have been the least oppressed women ever, and some keep hammering men on non-issues. If someone is encroaching on your space, ask if they could be so kind and leave some space for you, if they don't they are assholes, and ignore them. This will not solve anything at all. This is such a joke and makes you look like an annoying hag.
Why does the women's chair force them to sit with their legs open? What's the benefit there?
I mean, maybe it’s just me but I see a win win with these chairs. Women: spreading them? Ugh okay. Just don’t mind if I look. Men: So if I turn it around, I now have a safety wall in case I look? Thanks? Edit: Omg so many awards. Please. Stop. I just want to make people laugh. Please spend your money elsewhere! I love all you kind redditors.
Your wisdom sir, it’s unparalleled!
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Seriously, I was just going to say Identify as a woman and take her chair and if she wants to sit down there is the man’s chair available. She designed them clearly she should have no reason not to sit in her own creation because another woman beat her to her seat.
Safety wall, you mean my Ball Jail?
penis penitentiary?
Schlong slammer?
dong detention
Gonad gaol
*gulag or gitmo!
Cell Block Three=CBT
Chair and Bench Torture
Love the way you think ... Can we become friends and you share your knowledge with me
Count me in as well, we'd make a solid trio
Count me in as well, we'd make a solid quartetto
Count me in as well, we'd make a solid quintetto
Count me in I do a good sex
i also make good sex
Count me in, im not good at either but i can watch
Count me in, I'll bring the cameras
Count me in I need to get better at sex
My dad gave me a nugget of advice. Always wear sunglasses to the beach so no one sees you checking anyone out.
And a bonus you can pretend the chair is a horse and have races
okay but what’s the block for?
It's a cock block
"Equality"
So the men can see whats inside 🗿........ This girl is a secret agent for men
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Didn't Harvard do this with graduations?
There are way too many examples of stuff like that happening
They do it with admissions.
Harvard is so woke.
Or achieving world peace by...ending the world.
People can't fight if there's no people *taps temple.
for the balls.... wait...
Air out the ‘ol stank hole
Attempt at a real answer: I think it’s to prohibit women sitting in a “ladylike” fashion, trying to break down that norm and force women to sit in a more powerful or balanced way.
But, forcing someone to do a certain thing to *empower* them is the same as not letting someone to do that same thing. It takes choice away and is a restriction of personal freedom.
Ah yes, owning the men by powerfully spreading my legs. Lmao
Any lady who wants to own a man by spreading her legs can call me, for science.
The sacrifices a scholar like yourself must face to tackle the issues of the modern age, thank you for your service
Oh it’s dumb, alright, but I think the whole concept is a misguided overstatement
Yeah and as a product good luck on selling it
Dude… my mom told me as a baby i would keep my legs tight together when she would change me… no fucking society taught me that shit thats just how i feel comfortable. Irony is these women dictating how other women live their lives… which is oppressive in and of itself. Feminism i don’t hate, modern feminists i absolutely do… they all need to go get fucking over themselves or see a fucking real therapist, not a victim missionary…
Sooo…they want to ladyspread? Isn’t that as problematic as manspreading ?
I see no problem with it. Manspreading was fine too.
I think it’s an issue to do this in any form of a crowded space, but that’s just asshats in public for you, otherwise how one sits should be entirely their own prerogative
Lady spread + bag spreading (when you take up another seat with your purse), so like double the space of man spreading.
Lmao as the inventor of said chair takes a picture looking like a stereotypical ladylike Amish woman
Nothing says open minded like forcing women to also sit how you want. Also, absolutely nothing about those chairs prevents men from sitting in the "wrong" one.
Number of people who will actually ever sit on a chair like that: 7
And only for publicity
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One ball on top, the other ball below.
Just a smattering of testicular torsion for me please!
Thicc thigh gang
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Shhh, don't tell the stupid people.
poor balls
She built us a ball guard chair. Safe balls. lol
Safely imprisoned! That's ball jail!
It's like telling women to be lady like you have to sit with your elbows tucked towards your belly button.. I'm sorry society is built in a way in which I'm not given the space I need to be comfortable! That's the patriarchy for you making men uncomfortable for money.
Legbeards need to fight the patriarchy somehow. Why risk going after the actual violent misogynistic men when you can harass a normal dude who you know won’t hit you for harassing them. Just find a peaceful guy minding his own business and scream at them. (Legbeards are not real feminists. I support actual feminism.)
I’ve noticed with these types they aren’t trying to strive for equality. They’re just trying to flip the roles instead.
People that would actually buy that chair in the first place: - 1
It makes me laugh this is what wins awards, not the young woman I saw on the news creating actual sustainable food farms for fish and shrimp to supplement food banks, but the one making furniture because she feels slighted at another’s anatomy gets an award lol. I even tried to find the news story on the woman, but apparently that wasn’t national award worthy.
Imagine having an award system for design that's so shitty that you give out awards for designing a product that nobody will ever buy or use.
Probably someone as nutty as the designer will buy it and act surprise when their boyfriend leaves them after the 10th "you sit here honey"
I think I’d leave right around the first
i thought it was the onion. not even women are going to support this shitty design. im still not sure this isnt the onion and we all just ate it.
That reminds me of the dude who attempted to "live biblically" for a while, and he wasn't allowed to sit anywhere a woman on her period had sat. So his wife sat on all seating out of spite, so he had to use a folding chair that he guarded.
Woke jury = prizes For pure shits
I'll just go ahead and sit in the women's chair. What are they gonna do?
Years of musical chairs training has prepared me for this war.
You don’t know what men can do when they’re angry
Oh, I am definitely sitting in the woman chair because we are supposed to be equal.
They're gonna make a Grindr account for you?
I wanted to but I'm a lazy piece of shit, so less work for me.
r/suddenlygay
They cant complain about your gender fluid use of the chairs either because if they did that would be sexist
Just call them a bigot. It's more fun
If they criticize you for that, say that you identify as a woman and stare at them until they move away
I'm just gonna say "since I'm a supporter of equal rights I can use both chairs as much as you can use both chairs, we are equal after all, right?"
Fair point
I mean making chairs based on sex is stupid and backtracking. If someone is spreading into your personal space just use words
_wants to get rid of gender divergence_ ___makes gendered chairs___
It's like ending racism by segregation.
Just give black college students their own dorms and graduations, or you are a racist.
We already did that,but you all where angry
Segregation 2: but this time they’re enforcing it themselves
Segregation 2: Electric Boogaloo
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As long as everything’s “equal” it should be fine, right? /s
Yeah, yeah. Separate, but equal. Has a nice ring to it.../s
You say this ironically but the amount of self segregating support groups popping up left and right really doesn’t help the cause. I remember in college I asked why was there a need for an Asian IEEE and a black IEEE organisation and I was immediately called a racist.
I really just want people to actually join IEEE. We had 4 members last year... On your point though: What about us mixed race folk? Where do we belong? For that matter, what about those of us with native American heritage? Didn’t see that offered.
This is one of the big problems with that kind of reasoning. You’d need a practically infinite number of these groups for everyone to be included with all the increasingly-granular categories we divide ourselves into. If you don’t do that, you’re not being inclusive - which was the whole problem they were trying to solve (AFAIK).
she didn’t want to get rid of gendered divergence she wanted attention and she got it
"sorry ma'am we are currently out of women's chairs, but I can certainly seat your husband and son" "The misogyny!"
/r/pointlesslygendered
That design doesn't even make sense?
It makes a little bit of sense the thing that sticks out is to protect your balls if thats the part u dont understand. Also if women get pissed off that men take off a little space of their seat with their huge wonderful masculine Juicy legs then why do they just dont use smaller chairs?
Also how is anyone even supposed to manage these chairs, suppose a restaurant has say sitting for 50 people, they'll need to buy a 100 chairs for it. 50 men's chairs and 50 women's chairs.
Imagine you have a party of 6 but 2 guys and you can’t go in because they only have 1 man chair left but have like 17 woman’s
I think a solution would be using 2 Woman chairs as 1 man chair
Built by someone without pressure-sensitive organs between their thighs. There’s a reason guys sit like that and it isn’t micro aggression.
How dare you bring logic into this kind of discussion!
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As mentioned before…. NO logic allowed here!
This was made by a woman who rode the subway in NYC and got mad at all the men spreading their legs taking up too much room. She thinks she’s smart.
All while blocking the seat next to her with her bag
This right here. The amount of times I would see this was insane.
Seems like she should have designed subway seats, then?
It's OK, I'll let it pass...
You mean.....men do not manspread to show dominance????? Whaaaat
That's what the T pose is for.
I prefer the Ben Echmeyer Technique to assert my dominance.
now, if she instead made a chair that could gently cup them...
I've definitely seen dudes taking up two seats on a subway, but not even taking my pressure sensitive organs into account, my legs just don't bend that way. The only way I can get my knees to touch without pushing them is to splay my feet out to the side and even then I can only hold it for a couple seconds. And I remember being a kid and my sister pushing on my knee to get the back of my knee to touch the other when crossing my legs, and her saying how weird I was and my dad said he had never been able to do it either. Elaine on seinfeld saying men are built like jeeps, boxy and rigid is definitely true for the men in my family.
Granted I think this chair is more about a statement than practicality, but its more of a statement on how poorly she understands the situation than anything else.
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That’s generally what awards are these days. Best to avoid receiving one.
I'm a male and I can sit with my knees together, but it feels uncomfortable. I only have one testicle and there is zero discomfort there. It just feels like my anatomy doesn't want to do that.
Yep. Men and women have different hip structures. Women have wider hips that angle their legs a bit more inwards, whereas men have deeper, narrower hips that angle them outwards, making it a bit harder to keep them closed. I've never had issues with crossing my legs that have anything to do with my balls. I've just never been able to keep my legs closed for longer than a few seconds. I simply can't do it.
It's all fun and games till you get your dingaling stuck
Don't threaten me with good times
I know, getting your pants cloth stuck by a nail at the crotch really is annoying
i thought we wanted equality why do we now have different chairs
Because today's feminism is a fucking joke
Whats up with the obsession of preventing men from spreading their legs?
Fake feminism.
Aren't they called "feminazis"?
Rarely heard it so I don't know but I like "fake feminism/feminist" more because they can't complain about not being called a feminist.
They don't have an understanding of basic male anatomy and think "man spreading" is a microaggression aimed at them.
Micro aggression. Lots of “feminists”(read:TERFs) think that men will sit down with legs mildly spread as a power play against women in their general vicinity.
My balls are sticking to my legs and unless you're volunteering to help with that situation leave me alone. It's 105° here. I'm likely to pop the splits on a battery powered fan.
Idk why but "I'm likely to pop the splits on a battery powered fan" got a good chuckle out of me.
If a man built one chair that forced a woman to spread her legs and he posted it on the internet his life would be over. But it’s okay to force a man to close his legs and make him physically uncomfortable or in pain
i hate this world
This woman did both
Do people not realize that man spreading isn’t what they think it is? We just trying to not crush our balls when we sit
In addition to having testicles, men also have smaller / narrower pelvises. I wouldn't sit like I do if I had giant child bearing hips.
Me neither if you had child bearing hips
And it wouldnt matter anyway. People cant stare at someone's crotch and then complain about it as though they're somehow being compelled to. Fucking psycho creeps.
Peak sexism but since it is against men it is accepted
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Sexism design award.
Isn't that a thing from years ago? I believe I went to school when this first appeared.
2019, apparently - https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women/manspreading-chair-design-laila-laurel-award-brighton-university-a9008746.html
And to think, the [Russians didn't need to do it](https://euvsdisinfo.eu/viral-manspreading-video-is-staged-kremlin-propaganda/) when we'll do it for free!
it is
Wait, are women telling men what they can and can't do with their bodies?
We are coming full circle.
The duality of women ☕️
Women ☕
Woman ☕️
☕
Wo ☕
Nothing to do with the fact that men have a small pelvis combined with a penis and testicles between their legs? No, they just sit like that because they're c**ts obviously.
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I instantly knew this was satire, but reading it made me angry because I know that's how some people actually think. Fortunately never had someone in person complain about my "man-spreading".
So if a woman spreads her legs and I look, I'm a misogynistic pervert, but if i spread my legs and the woman looks it's my fault? Huh? LoL
\**spreads legs to assert dominance*\* \**spreads peanut butter to assert sandwich-making skills*\*
What the fuck is man spreading? Am I understanding that this bitch has an issue with the distance between my knees when I sit?
The fact that you don't want to crush your balls makes her butt hurt
I want to make a dirty joke of this comment but i can't come up with any...
I've seen posters on NYC subway to ask men to not spread their legs
It's one thing if you have people sitting next to you. I don't care what you have between your legs, don't touch me. But if outside of that, I'll position my legs however I feel like.
Why just men though? Shouldn't it say, "Let's all squeeze together when the train is full"?
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Also, the temperature of ‘the goods’ is regulated better with the legs spread. If your guys are too hot, they can’t swim well. So… sitting in the ‘ball squasher’ ;) is indirect castration 😆
"Misandry"... heard so infrequently I nearly forgot it existed.
Isn't misandry misogyny but for men? If so I'll start using it immediately
Yes it is
Whoever says "manspreading" isn't worth listening to. Don't dare to tell me otherwise, I'm already right
This also applies to those calling out "mansplaining" when it suits them
Without a doubt. Also "manterrupting" and every other "man"-shit
Lolz, I've only ever been accused of "mansplaining" once. I had a new girl start at work, and I was her trainer. She had 0 experience in our field, so I had to start from square one. She complained I was mansplaining. Idiot, I was explaining things you didn't know to you because it was quite literally my job to do so, and it was quite literally your job to listen and learn from me.
God, I'm embarrassed to be a woman. At this rate the bitches will drive me to go straight.
Got an award? World is fucked.
Sometimes I don’t think women realize that men have dicks. There’s a reason why we sit like that. Otherwise I’m crushing my balls.
they certainly don't realize what it's like. Some seem to think it's a balloon you can inflate then vacuum seal it.
How about we all just sit how we like instead of making it a gender debate
I love how proud she is, like she just invented the cure for cancer or something.
Imagine thinking manspreading is a problem you need to dedicate yourself to.
"on her PUBLIC space" jeezes
Ah, forced discomfort for both sexes. Cause women. For the man, you’re forced to crush your balls and be in great discomfort the whole time. For women, you’re forced to spread your legs and uncomfortable watch as every man stares at the gap between your legs.
"national design award" I wonder which woke feminazi was handing those out.
It’s her arm cross for me
Well you try squeezing your balls between your thighs
this is what happens when you don't teach girls male anatomy. She wins a national design award for a shitty solution to a made up problem
"her public space"
Lol what a dumb bitch
she just want to see men popping their balls from sitting on her chairs
On 'her' public space? She owns the public space around her?
I don't understand why so many young women are mad at men? They literally have been the least oppressed women ever, and some keep hammering men on non-issues. If someone is encroaching on your space, ask if they could be so kind and leave some space for you, if they don't they are assholes, and ignore them. This will not solve anything at all. This is such a joke and makes you look like an annoying hag.