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Sunday, 27 September 2015

Why should ‘manspreading’ be just for men? - Zoe Jewell

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/28/manspreading-men-oxford-dictionary-sitting-position-gendered
This article is about how some words are gendered and ‘the man prefix compounds the idea that men are aggressive and women are always pleasing, always good, never in the way, and that they can’t act up sometimes themselves.’ 
 

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