Take a pew, sitting down just got woke! A British student has snagged a nifty design award for creating an anti-manspreading chair. Fed up with men who luxuriate in their seating, University of Bri… ...

Laurel's pair of chairs, titled A Solution for Man-Spreading, were created as a tongue-in-cheek response to both hers and other womens' day-to-day experiences of "manspreading".

Anti-manspreading chair designer receives 'backlash' 18 July 2019. ... The women's chair (left) encourages the occupant to spread their legs while the men's chair (right) forces the legs together.

Feminist wins award for chair designed to stop ‘manspreading’ Chair encourages men to sit with their legs closed. Sarah Jones. Sunday 21 July 2019 14:27 BST. Comments.

The anti-manspreading chair has legs that narrow in width, forcing the sitter’s legs to press into each other. The women’s chair does the opposite, forcing their legs to be spread widely.

Manspreading is the "practice of a man sitting on public transport with his legs wide apart, taking up more space than he needs and preventing other people from sitting down". The chair (Image ...

The designer of the chair, Laila Laurel, said the concept chair was inspired by her experiences of men "infringing on my space in public." But since winning a UK national design award, she said ...

Miss Manners: I had to get stern after manspreading went too far . Published: Feb. 28, 2025, ... This student’s manspread/arm-across-the-chair combo was cheeky and presumptuous.

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