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04-08-2016, 07:33 PM
Vintage subway posters compared manspreaders to Hitler
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1953
A New York City transit poster.
Image: Amelia Opdyke Jones/New York Transit Museum Collection
“Manspreading" is a recent and colorful neologism, defined as the act of sitting with one's legs unnecessarily wide, therefore crowding others nearby. It's hardly a new phe**me**n. As long as urbanites have been crammed together in public spaces, inconsiderate and selfish behavior has been a problem.
A new exhibit in New York looks back at the various campaigns cities have undertaken to stem these problems“Transit Etiquette or: How I Learned to Stop Spitting and Step Aside in 25 Languages,” (http://web.mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm#transitEtiquette) on view at the New York Transit Museum’s gallery annex in Grand Central Terminal, features colorful and playful admonishments from around the world and through time. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/08/transit-etiquette/)
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1953
A New York City transit poster.
Image: Amelia Opdyke Jones/New York Transit Museum Collection
“Manspreading" is a recent and colorful neologism, defined as the act of sitting with one's legs unnecessarily wide, therefore crowding others nearby. It's hardly a new phe**me**n. As long as urbanites have been crammed together in public spaces, inconsiderate and selfish behavior has been a problem.
A new exhibit in New York looks back at the various campaigns cities have undertaken to stem these problems“Transit Etiquette or: How I Learned to Stop Spitting and Step Aside in 25 Languages,” (http://web.mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm#transitEtiquette) on view at the New York Transit Museum’s gallery annex in Grand Central Terminal, features colorful and playful admonishments from around the world and through time. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/08/transit-etiquette/)
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