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Men Are Complaining To The MTA About Its "Sexist" Manspreading Campaign
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Jen Carlson
Published May 8, 2015
Modified May 8, 2015
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(Courtesy Tipster Lee / Gothamist Manspreading Archives)
We receive a lot of emails about manspreading over here, and we're not the only ones. Through a public records request, a writer for Bitch Magazine got ahold of emails sent to the MTA regarding "manspreading," which is part of their "Courtesy Counts" etiquette campaign. She received 18 emails that were sent to the MTA over the course of one month, and reports back that 9 called the campaign sexist, or "anti-male." One simply read: "Drop dead, you morons!"
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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