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In a Last-Ditch Effort, Manspreaders Appeal to Science

They’re claiming it’s biologically necessary. Nope. It’s still rude.
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2015 was a big year for manspreading.

The MTA announced its “Dude…Stop the Spread, Please” campaign in December of 2014, and people ran with it. By August, “manspreading” had drawn enough global scorn to land itself a definition in the Oxford English Dictionary.