manspreading

Russian translation: менспрединг

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14:57 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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Russian translation:менспрединг
Definition:
Привычка мужчин сидеть с широко раздвинутыми ногами в общественном транспорте.
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менспрединг


Definition from Wiktionary:
Привычка мужчин сидеть с широко раздвинутыми ногами в общественном транспорте.

Example sentence(s):
  • В Беларуси проблему менспрединга на общественное обсуждение пока не выносили. - Wiktionary  
  • Менспрединг — это привычка некоторых мужчин сидеть в общественным транспорте с широко раздвинутыми ногами, что может приводить к дискомфорту сидящих рядом пассажиров или вовсе помешать занять свободное место. Этот неологизм происходит от английского manspreading (man — «мужчина» и spreading — «разбрасывание»). Он получил распространение в социальных сетях в 2013 году, когда женщины-правозащитницы запустили кампанию, направленную против подобного поведения мужчин. В августе 2015 года слово «менспрединг» появилось на сайте Оксфордских словарей OxfordDictionaries.com. - AiF newspaper  

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Anna Chalisova
Finland
Local time: 17:19
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
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Yes  Oleksiy Savkevych: предложение писать "мэнспрединг"
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