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Do feminists goes the roof. "Do not straddle a truck!"
In the UK public debate broke out about whether it is possible for men to ride on public transport with legs wide apart. The scale of the problem is that in the discussions already managed to take part of former Interior Minister Jacqui Smith.
However, the main target of popular anger became Scottish actor Richard Madden. Rise to a wide debate arose after a thematic blog Men Taking Up Too Much Space On The Train to the microblogging service Tumblr photograph appeared, in which the star of the series "Game of Thrones" captured traveling on the London Underground in a characteristic pose.
The Daily Mail published on this note, then joined in the debate and other publications, such as The Observer, transmits InoPressa.
The most radical commentators have suggested castrating Madden. However, The Observer believes this approach is "a little extreme." Instead, the author conducts a thoughtful analysis of the most common reasons men defenders nominating version that sit in public transport "in the alpha position with legs apart and exposing the crotch" of boys forced physiology. It was such a justification Madden, in particular, found in the commentary for Sky News the former head of the Interior Ministry.
However, the journalist considers such theses about the features of the structure of the male pelvis, "the danger of overheating the sperm" and so on, deserve criticism. Judging by the fact that some men still manage to sit in the truck perfectly normal in these explanations is "delusional bit of bragging rights," says the author, which, incidentally, is a woman.
"It's not in physiology, - she said. - Something not see women with large breasts who would plunk down their seat or on the shoulders of others, saying: "Excuse me, my farm falls, you have to press me." Women do not sit with legs apart, exclaiming: "On cystitis and thrush or something, they have not heard? Baby need cool ».
This behavior Madden and others like him, from the point of view of the journalist, based on the "belief that the space they occupy their due." "It is not always limited to this case - continues correspondent. - Men women have unwanted attentions comment on their appearance, irritated when they do not reciprocate, in extreme cases, pursue them, show aggression ».
"Undoubtedly, the majority of men in response to a request or requirement sit differently - believes the author, and yet: the share of those affected by this behavior, who just want to make the trip, without risking to become a party to the conflict, falls too a lot of anxiety and responsibility ... Personal space women, whether in the public transport or somewhere else, it's not some loose, semipermeable, a controversial concept, not something that can be assigned to "- concludes the journalist.
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