Tuesday - June 02, 2015

New NYC Crime: Manspreading

Nope. Not that blatant. And such a thing is already illegal, under “indecent exposure” or something like that. No, this new one makes perceived aggressive rudeness a crime. Remember that grump bully on the school bus who always “reserved” a seat for his pal who got on at a later stop? And there wasn’t much you could do about it because you were 9. But you wanted to. Oh yes, yes you did. This new one puts legal teeth in the comeback you couldn’t make then, but takes it to a feminazi level of crazy now.

It is now against the law (for a male - only a male??) to sit in a slouched manner with his legs “open” and “taking up too much space”. 

Bad news, tall men with a poor sense of boundaries: the NYPD have had enough of your nonsense. Yes, after op–eds in the New York Times (£), a popular crowdshaming Tumblr campaign and a series of public service ads from the Metropolitan Transport Authority, ‘manspreading’, or ‘sitting with your legs slightly too far apart’, as it used to be known, has apparently become a criminal offence.

According to a recent report from the Police Reform Organising Project, at least two men have been arrested and charged on grounds of the M–word, “presumably because they were taking up more than one seat and therefore inconveniencing other riders”. Rather than simply throwing out the charges, the judge issued an order that only guarantees that the men won’t suffer further repercussions if they avoid getting arrested again in the near future. It’s all part of a numbers driven crackdown on subway behaviour that’s also seen arrests for break dancing, walking between the cars and – collective air punch – people putting their feet on the seats.

So this will put an end to passive-agressive subway bullying forever, once and for all. Let’s hope.

But is this really necessary? Is it even vaguely legal?

And ignore, for a second, the fact that this ‘law’ gives the police more power to selectively arrest whoever they like: it’s pretty telling that notorious menace Matthew Broderick hasn’t yet been brought to justice.

No, the main problem with arresting people for anti–social behaviour is that anti-social behaviour shouldn’t be illegal in the first place.

Criminal acts have clear boundaries, as in the case of murder, tax evasion, or torrenting episodes of Game Of Thrones; sitting with your legs too wide on a subway seat does not.

And what about women? Aren’t there some women out there who sit with a wide stance? Too wide? And I’m not picking on the heavy ladies; I’m talking about the violent crazy ones in that Savages gang, and the sistas who cut a bitch over some McNuggets. Are you gonna tell them to move their big old legs?

Posted by Drew458     on 06/02/2015 at 11:16 AM   
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