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14:56 Apr 4, 2020

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English term or phrase: manspreading

Definition from Oxford:
The practice whereby a man, especially one traveling on public transportation, adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat or seats.

Example sentence(s):

A student has faced an "unpleasant backlash" over her award-winning chair designed to stop "manspreading". BBC News
Anna Dovgalyuk, 20, has started splashing a mixture of water and bleach on the groins of men with their legs spread too far on the St Petersberg metro. The law student embarked on the one-woman crusade to stop manspreading and has accused men in her native Russia of "gender aggression" but says the country is not doing enough the tackle the problem. The Sun
Whilst it's most certainly not the politest of ways to sit oneself, does the act of manspreading really legitimise anybody to define space as “inherently gendered”, as Mic subsequently did? Is it actually a case of men monopolising a woman’s space out of intrinsic entitlement? Or does science play a bigger part than we might think? Independent

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eixancarrament masculí

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eixancarrament masculí

Definition from Viquipèdia:
L'eixancarrament masculí[1] o manspreading és l'acció de seure amb les cames obertes, en un banc o seient per a més d'una persona, de manera que ocupi un espai superior al necessari. Sol ser un acte executat per homes. Culturalment, mostra la tendència a engrandir l'espai masculí i minvar el femení (cames juntes o creuades, braços creuats devant o amb les mans juntes, roba ajustada, cossos prims, les dones romanen quietes, sense desplaçar-se, etc.) per demostrar el domini de la masculinitat sobre allò femení. Sol considerar-se una mostra de poder i de masculinitat per a cert tipus d'homes, quan no hi ha ningú més assegut i, quan el seient del costat és ocupat per una dona, la conducta pot a més considerar-se assetjament sexual

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Terme recent (el diccionari Oxford el va recollir per a l’anglès el 2015), té un voluntariós però infeliç eixancarrament masculí com a proposta del Termcat per a la llengua catalana, expressió que per favor hem de fer el possible per substituir. - El País - Catalunya
L’eixancarrament masculí, que consisteix a seure amb les cames obertes i ocupar l’espai d’altres passatgers, s’ha popularitzat amb el nom de ‘manspreading’. - Vilaweb
Campanya contra l'eixancarrament masculí - elperiodico.cat

Judith Payro
Brazil
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Catalan

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